I kind of got that, but on CNN there really was no mention of points in the set up, and Hist Woods did not even make the cursory “Points!” Exclamation for responses he found funny (maybe he did it once or twice near the end). The Libertarian guy made the most references to it, which implied that there must have been some points set up and explanation near the start of the show that got cut.
If they want to keep the points conceit, but still have flexibility to cut bits that don’t work (and please, keep doing this) then seems it would not be too hard to just have Woods say “Points” whenever he wants, put up a score board on the screen created in post production to roughly track the parts kept in the show, and announce some kind of winner at end. Sent from Gmail Mobile On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 at 6:42 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > Re the points. In the UK version, they don't matter as mentioned, and you > can only *glimpse *the scorebox in a handful of very wide shots. The > reason is basically because rounds get dropped because they're not funny > enough. Then there's an ongoing running gag in the UK that Paul Merton > [nearly] always wins, and Ian Hislop loses. But the points only really > "exist" as a concept because there are two teams. If there are teams, then > there must be a score. QED. > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 2:17 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was surprised by how much I liked the first show - so much better than >> “After Midnight.” It seemed like the point of the show is for the civilian >> is to be kind of a straight man, and I thought he was fine, though maybe he >> or Wood should have somehow brought in a little bit of who he was in real >> life. Wood was funny, but I agree the energy level was a bit off; it’s >> almost like they watched the first eek of After Midnight and decided >> whatever they did they wanted to avoid that desperate manic vibe. I know >> the points don’t matter but they hardly existed at all, o scoreboard or >> explanation, so it sounded like a non sequitur when they were mentioned a >> few times late in the show. >> >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> >> On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 at 11:55 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Anyone else watch it? I have no familiarity with the British version, so >>> I can't compare it. >>> >>> For the most part, it wasn't very good. While I like Roy Wood Jr. a lot, >>> and run hot and cold on Amber Ruffin and Robin Thede, it was one of the >>> first times I've liked Ian Michael Black. >>> >>> The two biggest problems I found were 1) the Libertarian panelist. It >>> wasn't his politics (which mostly went unexpressed); it was that he was >>> basically a smart author forced to compete with four professional >>> comedians, and there aren't a lot of civilians who are equipped for that. >>> He was game, but out of his depth. (For example, in the closing "What Will >>> Be News Next Week?" bit, the other three gave humorous answers while his >>> was sober and serious.) >>> >>> The other, bigger, problem was that it felt like -- despite a live >>> audience -- there was a lot of dead air; it was a 30--minute show crammed >>> into a 60-minute slot. >>> >>> To be honest, probably the liveliest and most unexpected thing on the >>> show was the two unbleeped "motherfuckers." 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