Real Time, No Real Chemistry

[Steely_Dan]

I was so looking forward to tonight's Real Time. I knew that it was either going to be the wildest show of the season or there would be a slight chance that it would bomb big time. It bombed.

Sometimes the best laid plans...
Robin Williams...probably the best comedic mind of our generation mixed with Richard Clark and the rest, didn't work. The chemistry wasn't there. I really wanted to hear from Clark. He was/is an important player in the tragic story of Iraq and 9/11. Clark was the only (or at least the first) principal player that actually apologized to the people and families that lost loved ones on 9/11. There is so much that I wanted to hear him say. I could go on and on.

The bottom line is that timing and chemistry is everything. The timing was off and they failed chemistry. Too bad, because it could have gone the other way.

-P

[Anus Retainus]

1. Agreed

Why go to DC and then invite Robin to hog to whole show. Tweety was likewise useless.



Edit: the best bit was Barney Frank's statue of Cheney at the very, very end - eternal flames of "Pants on Fire"!

[tularetom]

2. I think Robin Williams is hilarious but I wish

he would've shut up, or at least toned it down a bit. I also wanted to hear more from Clarke but I did learn a couple of things. Lincoln Chafee is an idiot, and Tweety is delusional.

[Cush]

3. My opinion: Williams interrupts too often

he makes his points (and valid ones), but his jokes just run too long and it disrupts the flow

[flyarm]

4. i thought the same thing..i was thinking someone cut out clarks tongue!!

and that obnoxious woman drove me insane!!..i almost shut it off..but i kept hoping it would get better..it did not!

and mathews was a stupid add on..did not work..i can't stand him on hardball..i sure didn't want to see him on real time..

it was a horrible show..

Robin was Robin..he was funny..but his typing got stale..once or 2x ok..but it was really stinko..

the only thing worthy of talk was about voting machines..but Mathews showed his real colors on that..he could give a rats fucking ass if our votes ever count!..mr corporate whore ...

the show stunk..which is really sad..i really wanted to hear more from Clarke..but that fucking lady wouldn't let him get in a word edgewise..

she was a deflection..and a piss poor one at that..!

fly

[wisteria]

5. I enjoyed the show.

Robin Williams has always been hyper. I actually thought he was informed and funny. I will agree though, that it would have been nice to have more time with Clark. I think there were to many guests tonight. Maybe he will have Clark on again soon.

[countmyvote4real]

6. This is not News cloaking as Entertainment.

This is a mutant clone of “Open Theatre” and a send up of pundit talk shows and the show does not have to color within the lines established by the FCC (because it’s on HBO.) It is ultimately Entertainment that seeks to provoke debate and at the same time, poke its viewers in the eye.

You are right about the chemistry element. The alchemy is not limited to the panel, but also includes the viewers.

Still, I thought this installment was the best of the current season because I finally had more than one spontaneous moment to laugh out loud. It was entirely due to the relatively subdued antics of Robin Williams as idiot savant cum Tourette’s syndrome outbursts. It was entertaining.

How sad is it that we must now hold satire to the long lost standards of journalism that MSM News relinquished under the * administration?

I guess we are guilty of the collective lowered bar when we are left to seek truth in satire. Do I want more information? Of course, I do. Given the status quo, I found this episode the most entertaining and quasi informative of the current season regardless of the perceived chemical imbalance.