PBS tackles the history of funny
January 13th, 2009 by David Warner in Arts, NewsThe promo is probably right: This is not a job for Jim Lehrer (props to him, though, for making fun of himself). But PBS’ Make ‘Em Laugh promises to showcase several generations of American comedians for whom funny was an art, and if the snippets on the website are any indication — interviews with George Carlin, Jonathan Winters, Roseanne Barr, to name a few — the series should be a keeper.
January 13th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I’m amazed at how hard they’re marketing this. In New York I saw subway cars filled with ads, TV ads, billboards. PBS is usually pretty low-key, so this makes me wonder if they’re trying to take the station in a more commercial direction. Or maybe they’re just really psyched on this show.
January 14th, 2009 at 9:10 am
When public TV goes big, it goes really big.