The Man Show

The Man Show
Genre	Sketch comedy Satire
Developed by	Adam Carolla Daniel Kellison Jimmy Kimmel
Starring	Adam Carolla (1999-2003) Jimmy Kimmel (1999-2003) Joe Rogan (2003-2004) Doug Stanhope (2003-2004) Bill "The Fox" Foster (1999-2000) Aaron Hamill (2000-2003)
Opening theme	See below
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	112
Production
Executive producer(s)	Daniel Kellison
Running time	22 min
Broadcast
Original channel	Comedy Central
Original run	June 16, 1999 (1999-06-16) – June 19, 2004 (2004-06-19)
External links
Website

The Man Show is an American comedy television show on Comedy Central. It was created in 1999 by its two original co-hosts, Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla, and their executive producer Daniel Kellison.

Format

The Man Show simultaneously celebrated and lampooned the stereotypical loutish male perspective in a sexually charged, humorous light. The show consisted of a variety of pre-recorded comedy sketches and live in-studio events, usually requiring audience participation.

The Man Show is particularly well-known for its buxom female models, the "Juggy Dance Squad", who would dance in themed, revealing costumes at the opening of every show, and in the aisles of the audience just before The Man Show went to commercial break and end the shows with the "Girls on Trampolines" segment. The first year of The Man Show featured beer-guzzling entertainer Bill 'The Fox' Foster as the show's emcee. Foster specialized in chugging two beers in record time (sometimes while suspended upside down) and singing lewd drinking songs. He would close every episode by leading the audience in the German drinking toast Zicke, Zacke, Zicke, Zacke, Hoi, Hoi, Hoi!, a tradition that continued after his death from prostate cancer in 2000.^[1][2]

Notable segments

• A famous skit, often posted online, featured Carolla and Kimmel setting up a booth at a farmer's market and successfully asking people to sign a petition to "end women's suffrage", demanding the repeal of the 19th Amendment (which guarantees women's voting rights). This sketch humorously revealed widespread fundamental political ignorance in the general population and how terminology could be used to manipulate public opinion, much as dihydrogen monoxide is used to illustrate general scientific ignorance. The majority of people who came to the booth, both men and women, were willing to sign the petition.
• Another famous skit had Carolla and Kimmel, dressed as hunters, tie an animatronic deer to the roof of a car, parked at a truck stop, as well as using the animatronic deer to prank several pedestrians at a truck stop. Kimmel (hidden in a van in the next parking space) voiced the deer, who moved its head and asked passers-by to let it go, get it food or go on dates.
• The Man Show tribute to The Benny Hill Show
• Three of the more infamous skits on the show featured The Man Show Boy. One involved him standing outside a liquor store asking the passing customers for a six-pack of beer, with one man eventually buying him the beer after being given the money. The second skit involved The Man Show Boy selling cups of beer at a "lemonade stand", IDing some college frat boys before selling the beer. The third and most famous skit involved The Man Show Boy at a beach asking women if they wanted lotion rubbed on their backs.
• The hosts visited Snoop Dogg's house intending to shoot a comedy sketch but wound up smoking a large amount of marijuana with him off-camera and were filmed under its influence.
• Adam Carolla hosted "The Antique Porn Roadshow", an obvious parody of the popular PBS series "Antiques Roadshow", during which Adam appraised a phallically-shaped item supposedly made of ivory, a "male enhancement" item fashioned from a 19th century fireplace bellows, and a 1920's era pornographic magazine, the pages of which were inseparable.
• The 1999 through 2001 seasons shows occasionally featured segments entitled "The Monkey Bar", where chimpanzees duplicated real-life human exploits in a similar style to that of the 1970s American Broadcasting Company program Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp. One such performance entailed a conversation in a bar which referenced a penguin joke. In another, (not in the Monkey Bar setting) Jimmy Kimmel sent his (then) wife, Gina, to Poland in order to allow him to be with his new "simian wife", referred to by his real-life children as "monkey mommy".
• "The Wheel of Destiny", a very popular recurring segment based on the chance to receive either pain or pleasure resulting from the spin of a wheel, featured pleasurable rewards/prizes including a ride in the 1960s Batmobile with Adam West, a "wheelbarrow full of porn", and a massage by two female porn stars. Unpleasant rewards included "Adam pees on your wallet", the "Sumo Wrestler Tea-bag", and torture by a 300-lb dominatrix.

Departure of Kimmel and Carolla

In 2003, Kimmel and Carolla left The Man Show and the job of hosting was passed down to comedians Joe Rogan and Doug Stanhope. Under Rogan and Stanhope, The Man Show lost a lot of its former popularity and received much lower ratings.

Kimmel and Carolla went on to helm their own shows Jimmy Kimmel Live, Too Late with Adam Carolla and The Adam Carolla Show. Carolla has appeared on Kimmel's program several times during its run including April 8, 2008 after he was eliminated from ABC's Dancing with the Stars.^[3]

Famous Juggy Girls

• Rebecca Grant
• Christy Hemme
• Vanessa Kay
• Joanna Krupa
• Julie Costello
• Shawnie Costello

Episode list

Main article: List of The Man Show episodes

Syndication and DVDs

In the late 2000's, reruns of The Man Show aired on G4TV weeknights at 10:00 p.m. ET and 10:30 p.m. ET and on Saturdays at 12:00 a.m. ET. It was originally thought that the Rogan-Stanhope-era episodes would not be shown because the commercials referred to the syndicated episodes as "the way Jimmy and Adam made it". However, Canadian channel mentv included the Rogan/Stanhope episodes in its schedule. G4TV also aired the Rogan-Stanhope episodes, but only a very few times.

The first four seasons of The Man Show are also available on DVD.

International versions

A Norwegian version was aired on TV 2 Zebra.^[4] in 2006 and 2007, and is in its third season in 2008.

Also in Denmark, there was a version called Penislægens værksted (The Penis-doctors workshop) on TV2-Zulu.

A Turkish version was adapted by Play Productions and aired on Star TV in 2000.

References

1. ^ Home
2. ^ http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zicke_zacke_zicke_zacke_hoi_hoi_hoi
3. ^ Adam Carolla - Filmography by TV series
4. ^ TV2.no on The Man Show

External links

• The Man Show at the Internet Movie Database
• The Man Show at TV.com
• Pazsaz Entertainment Network - Episode Information And Airdates
• TheManShow.com - Internet Archive Wayback Machine