Bunk: Season 1* Analysis and MVP

May 1, 2013

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(*-1st and only season)

Season Analysis: Bunk was sort of like Whose Line is it Anyway? with stand-up comedians, except that the points did matter, insofar as a winner was chosen based on the score actually being tallied.  Actually it was like Whose Line but with too many staged parts, and the improvised bits were a bit spotty.  But the comedians were some funny people, so it was good for some moments.

MVP: Ethan T. Berlin
Ethan T. Berlin is to Bunk what Colin Mochrie is to Whose Line is it Anyway?: interpreting the improv prompts in a way that nobody else would ever consider.  Assigned the task of singing about a grandmother’s secret, he reveals that she has never known what a Cobb salad is.  He also offered some fascinating moments of self-deprecation, such as creating a road sign with the meaning “Warning: A Lady’s Gonna Blame You” – with a facial expression indicating that plenty of ladies have blamed him.

Best Episode of the Season: Comedy Bang! Bang! Season 1

April 24, 2013

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Season Analysis: Scott Aukerman has a great rapport with Reggie Watts, and a great rapport with all of his funny friends.  There are several funny segments that I assume were brought over from the podcast.  But sometimes it all gets a bit silly.

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“Elizabeth Banks Wears A Red Dress”
The most important part of comedy is the element of surprise.  So for a show as ironic and absurd as Comedy Bang! Bang!, it’s hard to continually produce good comedy when surprise is always expected.  So it was nice to have a guest like Elizabeth Banks, who more or less acted as herself instead of trying to match Scott Aukerman as he played “Scott Aukerman.”  But the real reason this wins as best episode is David Wain, who appears as television critic Gordon “The Hatchet” Thatchet.”  Wain operates on a different comedy plane than everyone else in the room (always a formula for success), as he constantly assigns star ratings to every moment of the show and tells Scott, “You’re no Johnny Carson, honey.”

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