The Chris Wylde Show Starring Chris Wylde

The innocence and beauty of the corporate TV-14 marriage of Comedy Central's "Chris Wylde" and the feel-good people's poet of NC-17 American University's "Chris Noll" is everything that is awesome AND sucky about cable television. Yes the show had moments of comic brilliance from Bumblton Q. Bear to the murder of 40 by Joe Rogan. But it also had the forced canned Comedy Central jigginess of a Will Smith video by a fat awkward sweaty guy from Jersey. What have we learned from the show? The code is real. What have we taken from the show? Everything that wasn't nailed down.

This show is terrible. Chris Wylde is not funny AT ALL (although he thinks he is). Nothing they do on the show is ever funny. Chris Wylde is a terrible interviewer. Basically the only thing on the show that doesn't suck is the band. Maybe they will fire Chris Wylde and give the band their own show. We can only hope. This show is so bad I'm surprised that MTV or Fox didn't pick it up. The only thing I can imagine worse than watching this show on tv is being a member of the studio audience.

This rather droll bit of humor first caught my eyes as I was aimlessly perusing the channels one lonely humid summer night. As the lights came up on this young lad of a boy I saw the most appealing young funny man on television. This boy knows the limit of acceptable humor and steps right through it to shock his audience. The humor in this show is quiet clearly not the jokes themselves, but the fact that half of them are being told at all. And quiet clearly the very idea that someone would tell them makes us so uncomfortable that we are forced to laugh. This boy is almost Swiftian in his rapier like wit. Others may decry him, but let me assure you that after they have spoken their piece they go straight to blockbuster and rent a healthy dose of Small Wonder and Navy Seals. Viva La Chris Wylde. May he live forever in the annuls of western civilization.

I think the only smart think about this show is that they stopped making it after about three episodes, when it was moved to 3:30am for a few reruns before

disappearing altogether. It was so bad, the old metaphor of staring at the car wreck doesn't even describe it; wretching after viewing a few seconds of a true horror was more like it. Whomever thought Chris Wylde was funny besides

himself is beyond me-- when I happened across the his show near the end of its run, he opened it by running out in front of the audience naked. Unoriginal, and very desperate. Sorry, Chris, your jelly rolls are not funny (except in an ironic sense you obviously didn't intend... that under your surface, you are plain and unattractive on many levels. ) Put your clothes back on: stop trying to be funny, we don't want to see it.

This show is the funniest late night show on Comedy Central, except for maybe the Critic. Chris' crazy antics and 40's 12 year old stoner appeal works great together, even if half the show they're naked. The band is great and the guest stars work well into the mix, but the best part is Chris' and Alan's relationship (Roll the @!$#ing tape!). 40's corner and those funny funny black cards are also a great addition to this show. Bottom line: If you're up at the time, watch it. It'll be worth your time.