“A casual relationship with reality”
Categories: Funny, Television
Newsradio, as I've mentioned before, is one of my favorite shows. I apparently have an affinity for comedies that get screwed over by their networks. Anyhow, the excellent third season came out on DVD a couple of months ago, which is awesome. I figured I probably had another year or so before the even more excellent fourth season would appear, but today it was announced (by whomever announces this sort of thing) that season 4 is coming out in June.
The fourth season is genius, and it includes what is, to me, the funniest two minutes of television I've ever seen. OK, maybe that's overstating it, but it's really funny. It's from the episode "Super Karate Monkey Death Car", and believe it or not, that's actually the second time that unlikely combination of words was said on "Newsradio". If you know the first, then gazizza, my dilsnoofus, you're a Newsradio fan.
Anyhow, thanks to Youtube.com* (which kick's Google Video's ass up and down the street), you don't have to wait until June to see this particular two minutes. Quick setup: Eccentric billionaire Jimmy James, played by Stephen Root, is going to read from his autobiography, which, for various reasons, was translated to Japanese then back to English. Enjoy!
Also worth noting here is just how brilliantly Stephen Root can deliver comedy. Watch it over if you're a fan of great comedic delivery, there's a lot to savor.
* Actually, experimenting with posting Youtube.com content is half the reason for this post.
posted by Mark Kawakami at April 11, 2006, 09:04 PM // permalink // (48) Comments