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#25re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/1/07 at 9:03pmI love this show. The snarkiness is what makes it great!
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#27re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/1/07 at 10:19pmI didnt see that episode yet, but I love this show!
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#28re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/1/07 at 10:26pm
Joel McHale graduated from the University of Washington's Actor's Training Masters program, so I don't think he has a huge hatred towards actors and Broadway.
And you have to admit, 95% of the people/clips he makes fun of on The Soup truly do deserve it.
#29re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/2/07 at 1:51am
I love The Soup. Please, Joel is amazing. He makes everything funny, even when you think it is something so pathetic it shouldn't be. When he talked about the strike and having to see Wicked a fourth time, I loved it. This Xanadu clip just made me laugh even more.
Though, I never understand why they always show the movie theatre for Rent when they show Broadway theatres...
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
#30re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/2/07 at 3:09pm
I saw the Xanadu Soup clip - I agree with those who labeled it "hilarious." Please, folks, that clip was ridiculous. It would be a shame not to find the humor in that.
#31re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/2/07 at 3:14pm
I saw the clip and there's nothing horrible about the commentary at all. Mountains out of molehills I think.
If anything it's good to see broadway on "mainstream" programs - whether it's the teasing of Xanadu or Phantom
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
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#32re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/2/07 at 10:39pm
I Tivo The Soup every week and LOVE Joel McHale! He makes fun of himself all the time, most notably when he showed fake scenes of himself reprising his role as "bank manager" in Spiderman III.
He "created" this character in the original movie in the bank robbery scene (he and Rosemary Harris hit the deck together). I don't think he had a single line. Anyway, he really expanded his role in the fake scenes and they were hilarious!!
Plus, you have to admit, Broadway acting rarely looks subtle enough for the camera!! How many commercials for Broadway shows make you cringe??
#33re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/2/07 at 11:39pm
"How many commercials for Broadway shows make you cringe?"
Hear, hear! ALL of them!
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#34re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/3/07 at 8:48am
That was hysterical. I loved the thing he said about the strike on the previous show... "Listen people, if I don't get to see Wicked a FOURTH magical time, heads are gonna roll!!"
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#35re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/3/07 at 10:09am
I think it was very cute (the Xanadu comment) and not meant to be insulting.
Joel McHale is no more obnoxious than any of the other former hosts of Talk Soup. Several of them have gone on to very successful film & TV careers, most notably Greg Kinnear, Hal Sparks and Aisha Tyler 
I didn't like any of them when they hosted the show. But I think they are all great now. It's the writers who are annoying. But that's their job.
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#36re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/3/07 at 12:31pmAnyone else think Man-kini is kinda hot? Just me? Okay.
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#37re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/3/07 at 12:36pmWas watching the worst fights special and yeah, Man-kini is furrilicious!
#38re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/3/07 at 12:40pmBorstal, I always kind of thought so, too, and I'm not sure why. He's nothing at all like what I usually go for. It's bizarre.
#39re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/3/07 at 12:49pmTo people who hate his 'hosting', it's not really him hosting, he's an actor. I've seen him in few other things. He says what the writer's have wrote.
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#40re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/3/07 at 12:59pmMan-kini just seems like the kinda loopy straight hipster guy you'd meet at a party who would be enthusiastically happy to make out with you after a couple of beers.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#41re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/3/07 at 5:05pm
I love the Soup and Joel!! I thought it was a pretty funny segment. It's just supposed to poke fun at people, and that's all I saw it as. I was in the floor rolling when the "Phantom" came out with skates and said he got a role in "Xanadu":))
Did anyone else notice when they showed the pics of the theatres they showed a pic of what looked like to be where RENT was playing. But it was really The Ziegfeld Theatre where the movie was playing? Maybe it was just me....
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#42re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/3/07 at 5:14pm
C'mon people face it- that Xanadu performance was worthy of some VERY heavy teasing. It was horriffically embarrassing for all involved.
The least of that show's worries was that the Soup made fun of it. That performance was dreadful- even for a parade!
#43re: E Talk Soup & Xanadu
Posted: 12/3/07 at 5:41pm
jerseyboyschick2 -- I totally noticed that as well. Indeed, the bf and I were totally comatose in front of the tv until I saw that and lept off the couch to point it out. He rolled his eyes at me in that way he does everytime we are listening to the Sirius Broadway channel and I give him the complete history of every song played...I felt like a complete Broadway goober.
Back to the point...I thought it was a great segment!
