Have you ever been watching The Soup and found yourself thinking, "Man, it's cool when Joel cuts away every once in a while to a random YouTube clip, but I wish he would just do that continuously for half an hour"? Consider your wish granted. Tosh.0's premiere last night on Comedy Central was basically one long rapid-fire stretch of viral videos, crazy tweets, and wacky JPEGs, introduced and riffed on without pause by stoner-y comedian Daniel Tosh. The Internet! Only on a television show!
Full disclosure: I was only half-paying attention to Tosh.0 last night, as befits such an attention-deficit-addled program, so it's possible I missed an in-depth investigative segment while I was looking away. But that would have defeated the entire point of Tosh.0, right? Scatter-shot bursts of absurdist humor are this show's reason for being. Luckily, Tosh himself is funny enough to make the format work. And I definitely can't complain about a series that has given us Keyboard Kato (below). Yes, that's the legendary "Keyboard Cat" clip…as re-enacted in costume by '90s pseudo-celeb Kato Kaelin. There are no words to describe what a wonderful gift to humanity this is.
Was anyone else watching Tosh.0 last night? Do you plan on tuning in again next week?
I thought I’d check it out because I’ve seen Tosh on a few other programs, and he usually is pretty funny. The show didn’t disappoint. I laughed way more than I thought I would though, especially when he did the play-by-play analysis of the guy trying to karate chop the coconuts. My only problem with it was that it’s almost too geared to the viral video addict. There were a couple videos he didn’t even introduce or explain, as if everyone watching should know what they were. Like what was that female reporter getting hit by the giant bubble all about? I know I don’t need to know to find the humor in her getting hit, but I still wanted to know what they were actually filming at the time.
I watched it and I’m definitely tuning in next week