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Thursday Fun Link

David Weigel | 10.19.2006 11:16 AM

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How many times have you flipped on HBO's gritty drugs-n-race-n-crime drama The Wire and wished it had a laugh track? Wish no more.

A little less successful is this Fox News clip, wherein Bill O'Reilly and Neal "the head" Cavuto are joined by a live studio audience.

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  1. Joseph Majsterski   20 years ago

    That really didn't work for me. And seeing how I'm still working through Season One on DVD, I stopped watching it.

  2. Evan!   20 years ago

    Joseph,

    I wouldn't consider that "work".

  3. Eric Atkinson   20 years ago

    I'm one of the forty or so people who watch HBO's The Wire. I do enjoy the program...its not Deadwood, but I do like it.

  4. 2boredbyhalf   20 years ago

    Personally, I thought it was amateur-brilliant. Way funnier than SNL has been in over a decade. Someone else did the same thing on YouTube with old music videos and mix-matched songs. I remember Sheryl Crow's "A Change Woould Do You Good" went particularly well with the Archie's cartoon "Sugar Sugar" ....

  5. 2boredbyhalf   20 years ago

    Personally, I thought it was amateur-brilliant. Way funnier than SNL has been in over a decade. Someone else did the same thing on YouTube with old music videos and mix-matched songs. I remember Sheryl Crow's "A Change Woould Do You Good" went particularly well with the Archie's cartoon "Sugar Sugar" ....

  6. NoStar   20 years ago

    That was OK, but not as good as Lou Reed's Sister Ray dubbed over Lawrence Welk and band playing the Cowsill's Indian Lake.

  7. Joseph Majsterski   20 years ago

    Eazy Street (Contains explicit lyrics)

    Troll 2 meets old school gangsta rap.

  8. Jim Walsh   20 years ago

    I like Dennis Miller's idea of putting a laugh track under Cops...

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