i so loathe when someone with skills and genuine talent gets blatantly ripped off. comedy central has this new show, crossballs, which is a total lift of the phil hendrie show. my comments submitted to the IMDB listing for this show are shown below. i doubt they will publish it, because i use URL, which is against their policy or whatever. stand up for real talent, and don't watch this flaming pile of fecal matter they made.

tehrawr (tehrawr@gmail.com)
a cubicle in corporate land

Date: 25 August 2004

Summary: Tagline: What seems [original]... isn't. prior art in production already

in radio land, there is this guy, Phil Hendrie, perhaps you have heard of him?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1042825/

anyways...

he's got a radio show some 14 years in the can, and here come these teevee execs with this ripoff of his idea. not only was it a bad idea to lift another show format, but to implement in such a fashion is even more terrible.

shame on Dennis Rosenblatt for being so unoriginal as to produce this stolen idea and take the credit.

Writing credits (in alphabetical order):

Matt Besser writer, Mary Birdsong writer, Chad Carter writer, Andrew Daly writer, Dannah Feinglass writer, Chris Gethard writer, Brian Huskey writer, Laura Krafft writer, Jerry Minor writer, Dylan Morgan senior writer, Dylan Morgan writer, Seth Morris writer, Joe O'Brien writer, Paul Scheer writer, Josh Siegal head writer, Charlie Siskel co-creator, Charlie Siskel writer,

every last one of them is a puppet and a plagiarist. this show should be pulled from the air for being a musty turd.

however, as the juggernaut that is the holy institution of television, and how the undereducated bow before its mighty glowing box, this will pass without any real action taken. no apologies given, no credit mentioned, no money passing hands to the deserving.

it's a shame when some no-talent execs come along and rip off a good thing and don't respect the format. shame on comedy central and anyone affiliated with this show.

dave chappelle is the best thing that has ever crossed your network, outside of trey parker and matt stone. i so remember now why i stopped watching the glowy box. it's lack of creativity.

get the real deal. http://www.philhendrieshow.com

-tehrawr-

and for good measure, here is my response sent on the lame form Crap Central has to send feedback.

As an enjoyer of Mr. Hendrie and his genuine talent that is The Phil Hendrie Show, i get a little upset when a group of tv executives get together and decide to lift his original idea without giving the originator one gram of recognition or one pence of royalty. this is my feedback.

I am planning on using my word-of-mouth abilities to rally against your show whenever it is brought up near me. you've also been panned on my blog. congratulations.

if you're going to lift something next time, try asking. and way to go on getting a guy who remade Howdy freaking Doody in 1987 to oversee this whole thing.

you all should be sent to hell on a shutter for this. good day.

-tehrawr-

ps: dave chappelle, trey parker, and matt stone are the only things on your network worth a damn.

i haven't had tv service for over 6 months now. i don't miss it at all, if this is the best of what's funny on the dumb box.

this is how i feel at this moment in time:

you watch your reactive tv, i'll get more intelligent with my proactive internet.
you sit on the couch, i'll go outside and exercise
you drink your grain water, i'll smoke my plant.
suck down that soda, i'll take my artesian water.

i'm not saying i'm better than you, as i am the criminal. so that makes lazy teevee watching, couch sitting, soda and grain water drinking slobs better people than me. could that only be because they are much easier controlled? i think so.

enough for now, there is a world that needs some tending to.