WHAT’S CONSIDERED CUTTING EDGE ON DEMAND: PART 2April 15, 2010
On Demand Weekly's contributing writer Jon Shurkin looks into the popular Cutting Edge On Demand folder in a multi-part series. Let us know what your favorite Cutting Edge series @ mailbag@ondemandweekly.com.
PART 2
After being called dead hundreds of times over the years, it could be said that TV comedies are not, in fact, dead yet. Network TV right now is churning out some pretty decent comedies and thanks to the CUTTING EDGE folder on Comcast On Demand, you can see some of the best comedies in history and some of the edgiest comedies of today all at your finger tips.
If you just go to the CUTTING EDGE folder, you’ll be able to find some of the best there was and some of the best there is.
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Everybody, even people who aren’t stoners, love the cartoons on Adult Swim and the CUTTING EDGE folder is where you’ll find many of your favorites. These include the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Moral Orel, Tim and Eric and The Venture Brothers. If none of these make you nod your head in joy in hearing those names, they’re all, in their way, dark, twisted works of animation often lovingly parodying super heroes, children’s TV, and many others. Only Tim & Eric fall into the standards of “normal TV” as it’s sort of a sketch comedy show but more like a sketch comedy show on acid.
If you want your comedy to be more classic and/or British, go to the IFC folder where in the in the IF Series, you’ll find episodes of the late-lamented early ’00 comedy series Arrested Development. If anything, just watch it so when you say you watched it, you’ll get at least ten more points in the Cool Scale.
The IFC HD folder includes both Arrested Development and the British sitcom The IT Crowd. The IT Crowd is a show about three members of the IT department working for an English company and is sort of a cross between The Big Bang Theory, The Office, and Dilbert.
If Arrested Development isn’t nerdy or classic enough for you, then go to the Auomat folder where you’ll find the Grand Daddy of Abusrdist TV comedy, Monty Python and the Flying Circus. Watch it for the 100th time. The Automat folder also has sketches from the sketch comedy group the Whitest Kids U Know.
