Why ‘The Man Show’ Sucks

by Javier Castillo
22 September 2003

h, now here's another television show I loathe: "The Man Show," infecting the airwaves on Comedy Central. One has to wonder why this show is not on SpikeTV, because this is the perfect level of stupidity that would do well on the "first network for men."

We're supposed to shrug off dumb shows like "The Man Show" because it's all about attitude. See, the marketing department at Comedy Central has determined that men like stupidity and revel in garbage, so they create a show where men can, you know, be men. Marketers and other practicers of the dark art of Demographics have beaten the public into submission so that men can say, "Yeah, that's exactly how men are!" blissfully unaware that they've been duped into thinking such. It's classic propaganda, but no one ever seems to have gotten underestimating the stupidity of the American male.

Every time I hear some guy crack on "uppity women," I always want to ask him how it applies to his mother. Or, in the case of "The Man Show" and its dancing whores, sorry, "Juggies", I'd love to have the hosts book their sisters (or female cousins if they lack siblings) and act like sluts itching to tongue another woman. I mean, if you revel in the idea of women being whores, then certainly you consider your own mother or sister a whore. And your aunts and grandmother, too.

I often wonder why women allow themselves to be debased and dance/strip/slut around shows like "The Man Show." Oh, I know, they're just paying the bills, it's just a job and none of it is supposed to be taken seriously. Yeah sure, so when I call you a dumb whore, you should know that I'm talking about your dancing slut persona, not you actually. Or when you expose your breast job to a guy participating in a gag segment to see if you can give him an erection is just suffering for your art, right? You're above criticism because it's just a job and I just don't get it.

"Just not getting it" is usually the battlecry of the mentally challenged, the sloping foreheaded among us who are the booby-prize of marketers. These types can be easily separated from their money, which is the ultimate goal of the Dark Art of Demography. But the only real thing I don't get about "The Man Show" is how the makers of the show get women to sit in the audience. You can't argue that women like erotica, because this show is not erotic. The joke is actually on the women, who must be about as stupid and sloping foreheaded as the men. Ladies, you're being treated as dumb whores and you don't even know it. I suppose these pathetic women in the studio audience probably look at their men and think, "I know he doesn't think low of me like that dancing slut on the stage." That might be the reason these dopey, slow-witted women are in the audience because they're "real women", and "real men" respect "real women."

So why the hell are they all there in the studio audience in the first place?

Little boys, if you watch "The Man Show" and find it wonderful and a refreshing break from all this political correctness (which prevents you from calling a woman a whore and a bitch and not having a female supervisor), send me some money because you like being lied to, and you like being taken for an asshole. And make sure you tell your mommies what you really think of women while you're at it.