Frank TV :(
by Alex Truong – A&SB Contributor
Frank Caliendo, the “man of a thousand voices,” returns with another season of Frank TV – the sketch comedy celebrity parody show that YouTube built. Unless you’re a baby boomer stagnating in suburbia or the child of such a middle-ager who is forced into quantity family time, this show isn’t for you. Filling the void of clean, politically correct comedy in the vein of The Wayne Brady Show, Frank TV doesn’t innovate or bring anything new to the table. In fact, it is solely based around more bad impressions of James Gandolfini and George W. Bush. Admittedly, some of the impressions are decent (like Charles Barkley), but some are just awful (like Yoda). Joining Caliendo this season are a pair of paltry performers, a safe white guy and a safer black guy who also do impressions. Though bastardizing pop culture references left and right, the gang still stays in the safe zone of bland inoffensiveness. The canned laughter played throughout even turns into cheesy stunned silence when a way-too-skinny Samuel L. Jackson commits a minor act of violence. Getting stoned wouldn’t make this show funny. For the daring, Frank TV premieres October 21st on TBS.
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