NBC Show Community with Joel McHale and Chevy Chase is a win in my book!

April 8th, 2010    Posted in General Blog, Video Clips

I am a fan of select TV show, and I think that the most of the current shows that come on NBC Thursday are a pretty good and funny… But then, others might not think the same as me. I really get and enjoy the cringing, hard to watch, awkward situation American comedies like The Office, with Rainn Wilson and Steve Carell, and Parks and Recreation, with Amy Poehler. (Personally, I would love a simple walk on part to one of these shows, but that is just me. I enjoy “awkward-type” acting myself.

Overall, The Office is sumber one in my book. I have seen every single episode and am bummed when it’s not in my queue on Hulu.com.

But a great up and coming show that I have enjoyed seeing blossom and develop is Community. (I was telling my wife about this show, which she has not watched since she watches another show at the same time on CBS — CSI, I think? — so, she hasn’t watched it and gotten into like I have.)

While the plot line of Community works adn has been developing overtime, what really works is the ever developing cast of characters, both growing in numbers, but also in likability and humor. There are some great, and well known actors in this show, like Chevy Chase and lead character Joel McHale, known best as host of E!’s The Soup.  Two of the ones that I’ve grown to like are Abed and Troy; their male bonding through “end of the show” quirks just adds so much more to the enjoyment of their relationship as characters on the show. — Abed, played by Danny Pudi, is probably one of the funniest characters on the show and extremely talented in timing and versatility. Would love to meet this guy one day!

To give an example, see the clip below — which overall had very little ties to the rest of the plot of the show, but it still was very very funny! (At least to this comedy critic).

And just one more clip for kicks is this one where, again it had nothing to really do with the plot of the show, but the humor, especially with the eating of the cookies and pretending to be Sesame Street Puppets Bert and Ernie, was great!