In Defense Of... "THE MAN SHOW"

 (0:36-end mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run play the camera moves back to see James on top of the slab with the words “The Last Of The Americans” on it before cutting to James physically)

TLOTA:
I'm James Faraci, The Last Of The Americans and the views I'm about to express are that of my own & some of yours and Welcome to another edition of "In Defense Of..."(Show pics of maligned pieces of pop culture while the fanfare from the Olympics  play and James comes up after Vanilla Ice slides back and his right-hand thumbs up and the words "In Defense Of..."  before cutting to the Intro of "The Man Show" during Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla's Tenure then clips of "The Man Show" as James does a voiceover.)

TLOTA (V.O.):
Ah Yes, The Man Show fitting as by the time this is posted it'll be Valentine's Day a day for men who are single to complain the most, drink the most, and curse the most at women, and nowadays when being a man has started to go the way of the Dodo again, we need something like this again. But to understand the hows and whys this show was a success and why it needs to come back we need to figure out why it was a success, why it did as well as it did and why it needs to be defended from a culture that has become to pussified. (Cut to James physically)

TLOTA:
So let's grab a beer, drop your pants, send the wife and kids to France, Quit your job, Light a fart, Yank your favorite Private Part, Be at a place where men can come together, look at the cans on a girl named Heather, Watch Bouncy Girls on Trampolines and loosen your Blue Jeans because it's time for "The Man Show"! (Cut to clips of "The Man Show" as James does a voiceover)

TLOTA (V.O.):
In 1999, Comedians Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel worked with Daniel Kellison to develop a show to celebrate men because, at the time, there were a lot of shows centered around feminism. (Cut to James physically)

TLOTA:
Full disclosure, I support Femisism, I support equality, I just also happen to be a guy! Remember that, But I digress! (Cut to clips of "The Man Show" as James does a voiceover)

TLOTA (V.O.):
"The Man Show" debuted in 1999 with a squad of bikini-clad women dancing to the often drunk and often horny audience and the fastest drinker on the planet, at the time, Bill "The Fox" Foster, He first appeared on an episode of "TAXI" & "That's Amazing" and had his own bar where he drank and sang filthy covers of songs. Trust me his cover of "Lady Of Spain" is not for the kiddies, I can tell you that, right now! Hosting duties were done by Carolla and Kimmel throughout 95% of the show's run, We'll get into what happened later on. Again, I digress, The pilot set the tone for the rest of the series under Carolla and Kimmel as the duo praise The Hoover Dam and use it to promote the series. Some of the notable reoccurring sketches in the series including "Father & Son with Jimmy and Kevin Kimmel" (And for the record, that is his actual son), "Man-O-vations", "Movies Men Don't Want To See". "When Adam is King", "Wheel Of Destiny" and the "Museum Of Annoying Guys" that were done on the set, there was plenty of live sketches some of them involved a very hefty kid named Aaron they dubbed "The Man Show Boy" in the later seasons in which he was willing to do such things like serving beer for seventy-five cents, or using fake IDs to get Pornos and Booze. Most of the episodes ended with a "Q&A" on the topic of the episode or to briefly give Jimmy's now Ex-Wife Gina a few seconds to try and defend things they slammed only for something to go south either lack of time or something else insane and then the toast they'd end the episode. (Show every clip of "The Man Show" raising their glasses to the German drinking toast Ziggy-Zockie, Ziggy-Zockie, Hoi-Hoi-Hoi multiple times before pounding down the drink.) And then of course every episode also ended with girls jumping on trampolines! After re-watching the first season I can say that some of the episodes really still hold up like their take on Marriage, Sports, and other subjects Men have had a solid stance on and critically, the show was SLAMMED by critics calling it one of the biggest piles of trash, but what they didn't get was that Carolla and Kimmel weren't celebrating the toxicity of Manhood but rather they were slamming the toxicity of manhood that was the neanderthal-Esque idiots who believed that being a man meant being imbecilic and hurting women to get them to fall in love, you know, the type of guys who shouldn't get the girl but surprisingly does. (Cut to James physically)

TLOTA:
As a matter of fact, Comedy Central had such a hit, they allowed Kimmel and Carolla to appear in of all things a Romantic Comedy! (Cut to "The Man Show" clip from "Down To You" as James does a voiceover.)

TLOTA (V.O.): 
"Down To You" was your generic Rom-Com from the year 2000 with one exception, this one had a cameo by Kimmel and Carolla in their cameo Al played by Freddie Prinze Jr. fails to satisfy Imogen played by Julia Stiles in the bedroom in a fantasy clip Al appears on "The Man Show" only for Carolla and Kimmel to rake Al over the coals for not being able to pleasure Imogen and for his career choices, it may just be the best part because if Carolla and Kimmel knew that Freddie was dating Sarah Michelle Gellar, I guarantee one of their clip shows would see the two of them in a hospital bed in matching body casts. (Cut to clips of "The Man Show" as James does a voiceover)

TLOTA (V.O.): 
By the start of the second season, an unexpected tragedy befell the series as Bill "The Fox" Foster passed away from prostate cancer an hour after filming the first episode. While they acknowledged that he did pass away after the episode was filmed, the rest of the season continued on their raunchy romp of satirizing... WAIT FOR A SECOND! (Record scratches and the footage stops.) Those two banners in the background in the Wrestling School portion. Are those from the Herb Abrams UWF and the AWF, that had one of the proprietors be involved with mob ties and that Cicero town president? (Cut to James physically)  

TLOTA:
So the same the two wrestling organizations that brought us this... (Cut to the infamous clip of Herb Abrams as he rants and raves on Col. Red. Cut to James physically.) AND THIS... (Cut to the clips of the WWE Unauthorized in which all the clips were of the AWF Cut to James physically) that closed its doors around the same time got recognition on The Man Show! If Brian Zane ever does a Compilation of Wrestling Sketches and misses the one on The Man Show, you will hear from me! (Cut to clips of "The Man Show" as James does a voiceover)

TLOTA (V.O.): 
By the start of the third season, a new musical group had joined to help entertain the audience, a polka group called the Good Time Party Boys however, for all intent and purposes the Good Time Party Boys was NO Bill "The Fox" Foster and while everything was good, I was seeing tensions between Adam and Jimmy were getting palpable. There were more jabs at each other that felt less friendly as episodes went on and while they were as professional as they could be, the two lasted another season but by that time Jimmy Kimmel was in talks with ABC to do his late-night talk show and Adam Carolla was probably glad to do anything else! By the end of the fourth season, both Carolla and Kimmel said their goodbyes to the audience and did a final clip show together. Yeah throughout all of the seasons Carolla and Kimmel did they played what they thought were some of their funniest sketches and they had set their clip shows in some unique places, Cabo San Lucas, Jimmy's home, Las Vegas, A Dude Ranch, and other unique locales. But after the duo ended their tenure executive producer Daniel Kellison searched for the next duo and when season five rolled in we were quickly disappointed in the choice of hosts. The rather unfunny Doug Stanhope and equally as unfunny Joe Rogan. (Cut to James physically)

TLOTA:
Oh, you think I'm joking? Watch "Newsradio" Joe Rogan can't even hold a candle to his co-stars, Andy Dick was funnier than Joe Rogan! And what in the hell was frickin' Doug Stanhope been in. (Cut to a black screen and the words "Due to the fact James has some decency and dignity, James refuses to use any of Doug Stanhope's appearances in the "Girls Gone Wild" series of videos." Cut to James physically) Ha! (Cut to clips of "The Man Show" as James does a voiceover)

TLOTA (V.O.): 
Eventually, even the audience didn't find the series funny anymore, even as Doug Stanhope had an episode based on a boxing match between himself and Olympic skating disgrace Tanya Harding! Comedy Central eventually decided to end the series partly due to changing comedic tastes and of course low ratings. The series ended in June of 2004 with not even a whimper, it was more of a sigh of defeat. (Cut to James physically)

TLOTA:
But as P.C. and Woke Culture seems to be constantly forcing men to again be well relegated to mediocrity, do we need "The Man Show" to return to smack the hell out these wimps? In my opinion? Yeah! (Cut to clips of "The Man Show" as James does a voiceover)

TLOTA (V.O.): 
Look at how men are being made to suffer no matter what they do, they have become criticized, ostracized, and downright made to be seen as fodder for jokes by women who wouldn't go near guys on a bet. We need something made by men to make fun of the wimps men have become and how much women have made it even harder and how the laws made it even harder for men to be men. Case in point, a few years ago, I was in a supermarket and I was walking up to a woman who I saw and before I even said hi, this woman says to me "Either get stepping or I am calling my calling my lawyer and I will file a restraining order!" And now if you ask me, we need to celebrate the essence of that manhood again and while we'll never get the same chemistry as Carolla and Kimmel in the heyday of The Man Show, we could use something to make men feel better about being men!  (Cut to James)

TLOTA:
And now I say to any male reviewer, join me with your drink of choice and salute the show that made Toxic Masculinity a farce and showed us how men need to be! TO MEN! A TOAST! (Cut to every male reviewer with a drink as they chant  Ziggy-Zockie, Ziggy-Zockie, Hoi-Hoi-Hoi multiple times before pounding down their drinks. Cut to James as he finishes off his drink!)

TLOTA:
I AM A MAN! I'M JAMES FARACI THE LAST OF THE AMERICANS AND THAT'S MY OPINION!