A: Denial isn’t just a river in my father’s home country of Egypt, it’s also swirling around Paul Thompkin’s pathetic take over of our old but now forgotten, Best Week Ever.
Admit it, you’ve seen the show go off the deep end once they took away every funny comic and left us with the creepy and strangely hairy Paul. You probably even stopped watching entirely because every joke he delivered was as bad as his wardrobe choices.
So when we heard that VH1 was taking an extended break on the show we busted out the champagne and celebrated.
Then we read this saddening news:
When reached for comment, a spokeperson told us that “VH1′s Best Week Ever has actually gone on its scheduled production hiatus and will return in January 2010. Its companion piece Best Day Ever which spoofs that day’s pop culture news will return this fall.”
Back in 2010?! PLEASE! It’ll be a pop culture memory by then.
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Bruce Wayne says:
Amen. Used to love the show, but he humor came from the each comedian doing what they did best in small snippets. Last year’s over-done “we’re super ironic and loud” version was already bad (i’m surprised they didn’t call it best week ever “x” to make it cool to the “x” generation) . They didn’t just Jump the Shark with the Fonz, they jumped 20 sharks with the entire casof Happy Dayst . 30 minutes of Thompkins in the current version is torture. Too bad…Thompkins was funny in small amounts in previous years. I can’t watch it like this. RIP best week ever…
That leaves Talk Soup or G4′s bastardized Web Soup for now. Still painful and forced at times, but they can occasionally be funny.
TheAZKId says:
Way off on this one guys. First off Paul was the most talented comic in that whole bunch, the show itself is bad and you can’t blame him for taking a payday. Secondly you’re attacking a comics style, even when you group in gay comics he’s by far one of the best dressed. Paul Lyndes cheap polyester and Ascots couldn’t hold a candle to Paul F Thompkins tailored designer suits.If you want to attack comics in bad suits go after Paula Poundstone.