The Michael Showalter Showalter makes me laugh.
While I count down the minutes until The Shield returns (as of this writing, the total is somewhere around 1,980), I might as well point you toward something worth watching in the meantime. That something is The Michael Showalter Showalter which has been posted infrequently since mid-January on College Humor, a web-site that always seems like it should have something worth checking out, but rarely does.
Aside from having the best title of 2007, The Michael Showalter Showalter is your basic talk-show parody. Taking the form of a Charlie Rose for the alternative comic set, each of the episodes involves Mr. Showalter interviewing one of his friends for five minutes with cut-aways to before-and-after-the-interview hushed conversations. It’s not hilarious, but its frequently funny, which as far as web content is concerned is wholly satisfying.
So far guests have included Zach Galifianakis, Michael Ian Black (natch), David Cross and a recently updated preview of an argument with Paul Rudd. Check it out if the spirit moves you.
