Not Necessarily the News

[furie]

Anyone remember this sketch comedy show that i believe showed on HBO. It ran for years. the only people I remember from it was Rich Hall and Stuart Pankin. Good political satire.


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[monsterone]

i vaguely remember it; did they have a segment with those political puppets?


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[Wormwood]

those are the guys who had all those "sniglets", right?

Sniglets: Words that dont appear in the dictionary but should
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[KERMIT]

I remember a show with puppets and stuff. But it was puppets of presidents and stuff. It was on reg TV though.

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[BoondockSaint]

I remember a show with puppets and stuff. But it was puppets of presidents and stuff. It was on reg TV though.

D.C. Follies?

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D.C. Follies?


Yep!! I think thats it.

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[Recyclerz]

To kick it even more old school, the HBO series was based on an even funnier British show called "Not The Nine O'Clock News". (I think that was the title.) It had a talking Mr. Bean, the guy who played the torturer in The Princess Bride and a hot pseudo-news bunny.

Ah, those too clever by half Brits. Shame about their empire and all. Wut, wut.



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[JustJon]

The puppets were the Spitting Image puppets, a British thing that was seen in Genesis' "Land of Confusion" before doing the DC Follies show.

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[saveopieanthony.net]

It was actually kinda like a "Weekend Update" show...kinda like a precessor to "Daily Show"

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[Kevmath]

Rich Hall in the past couple of years has been touring with a new character he created Otis Lee Crenshaw. Really funny songs and comedy.

Kevin...



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[pete_in_NJ]

<p>I remember the show Not Necessarily the News . It was an HBO show. I rememebr one episode where the chubby guy was doing the weather and started breakdancing and spinning on his back on the desk.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck !</p>

[narc]

That Land of Confusion video was the best. They need more videos now with Reagan puppets.

[newport king]

<p>I always thought Dream On was an underrated show. And Brian Benben might have the best name in hollywood.</p>

[EliSnow]

<p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">I remember this show, and I also remember having sort of a thing for a cohost that came on near the end of the show Annabelle Gurwitch.&nbsp; Now I was 13 at the time, but I still have sort of a thing for her:</font></p><p><img src="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f373/EliSnow/7days_story.jpg" border="0" /></p>

[jeffdwright2001]

<strong>EliSnow</strong> wrote:<br /><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">I remember this show, and I also remember having sort of a thing for a cohost that came on near the end of the show Annabelle Gurwitch.&nbsp; Now I was 13 at the time, but I still have sort of a thing for her:</font></p><p><img src="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f373/EliSnow/7days_story.jpg" border="0" /></p><p></p><p>Ms. Gurwitch is best known to television audiences for her numerous years as the co-host of the cult favorite Dinner and a Movie on TBS. SHe is a contributing writer to Day to Day on NPR and you can hear commentaries at npr.org. She has published humor pieces in Los Angeles MAgazine, Glamour, Premiere, Child, and Cooking Light amongst other publications and you can read other essays of hers at <a href="http://www.freshyarn.com/" target="_blank">Freshyarn.com</a>.</p><p><img height="175" src="http://www.npr.org/about/people/bios/biophotos/annabelle_gurwitch.jpg" width="140" border="0" /></p><p>On TV she has served as the host of numerous shows including The Dream Team on the Sci-Fi Channel, You're Invited on The Style Channel, and makes frequent appearances on shows like Reel Time with Bill Maher, Politically Incorrect, Ask Rita, and The 70's on VHI. Annabelle was also the spokesperson for the Ford Focus for which she wrote and performed 30 live commercials. She has twice been nominated for Ace Awards: for Dinner and a Movie, and anchoring Not Necessarily the News on HBO. Other roles include: Get Real, Nip/Tuck, Charmed, Seinfeld, Murphy Brown, LA Doctors and over 40 other episodics, and MOWs.</p>

[docgoblin]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>Wormwood</strong> wrote:<br />those are the guys who had all those &quot;sniglets&quot;, right?

Sniglets: Words that dont appear in the dictionary but should<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sniglets was Rich Hall's baby. I saw him three times at Governor's comedy club and he was hilarious back then. On SNL He did a take off of David Byrne from the Talking Heads, wearing a big suit like David did in &quot;Stop Making Sense.&quot; It was a very funny bit.&nbsp;</p>

[tele7]

Sniglet:&nbsp; <u>Speretts</u>-The&nbsp;lines you get on your face from your pillow and blanket&nbsp;on when you wake up.

[Kurtis9]

Sniglets. That was my favorite. Like... Dork - a person who tries to walk in a door clearly marked exit.