The video-blogger and comedian Franchesca Ramsey joins Kurt Andersen to host the first installment of Kings County. Comedian Kurt Braunohler of the IFC show Bunk performs stand-up and faces off against an audience member in a language quiz called “Tongue Skills.” Musicians Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl play live as The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (GOASTT). New Yorker writer Paul Rudnick debuts a segment called “Gay Stuff with Paul Rudnick.” And, the whole cast performs a story about modern day life in Brooklyn. Plus: in need of a tagline, we turn to the audience.
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Who is this disgusting jerk who mocks slaughtering pigs and lambs saying 'they were just begging for it'?
Was that supposed to be funny? I don't mean to defame pigs but in the common use of the term, she is one. Not funny and tasteless. And Kurt Anderson had nothing to say. Stupid show.
It was a surprise to learn from Kurt Andersen that Russia has a border with Turkey. The fact that participants took Turkish for Russian is also funny but this thing is at least subjective unlike geography.
As said by one of Fonvizin's characters: "Why bother to learn geography if there is a coachman?"
This has got to be the worst show WNYC has produced in quite some time. It's almost remarkable how unfunny this show is. The big question is what is the most unfunny part of the show? Is it the grating Regina Watts? Is it the D-list stand up comics they have? Is it blinding bad "news" intro? Or is the the yuppie audience's patronizing laughter? Poor, poor Brooklyn.
As a new resident of Kings County, I have become keenly aware that I don't have a beard and I ask for reassurance that I can wear V-neck T-shirts. I usually get it.
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