Unscrewed with Martin Sargent

Unscrewed with Martin Sargent

Infobox Television
show_name = Unscrewed with Martin Sargent


caption = "Unscrewed with Martin Sargent" logo
format = Comedy, Talk Show
runtime = 30 minutes
creator = Martin Sargent
producer = Heather Frank (line producer),
Daniel Lee and Allison Pickard (associate producers)
editor = David S. Rubin
executive_producer = Paul Block
starring = Martin Sargent
Laura Swisher
country = USA
language = English
network = TechTV
first_aired = May 26, 2003
last_aired = November 29, 2004
num_episodes = 214
imdb_id = 0360314
tv_com_id = 19753

"Unscrewed with Martin Sargent" was a late night American TV show that brought out the comedy of technology. The show was set as a traditional late night talk show, including a couch for guests to sit during interviews. It was produced at TechTV (later known as G4) and aired from May 26, 2003 to December 2004. An accurate series summary would describe it as a cross between The Late Show with David Letterman and the radio series Coast to Coast (formerly hosted by Art Bell), mixed in with bizarre guests scooped up from the Internet, comedy, Sargent's reported binge drinking adventures, and pornography.

The show was originally taped in San Francisco, California at the TechTV studios but later transferred to Los Angeles following the sale of the network by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures to the Comcast owned G4, a gaming oriented network. The executive producer of the show was Paul Block.
Martin Sargent served as the show's always irreverent host. Sargent's sidekick was stand-up comedian Laura Swisher. The mislabeled Joey the Intern rounded out the triumvirate. Other regular characters featured included The Ambassador of Gay, former child star Gary Coleman (of Diff'rent Strokes), Big Missy (Martin's alleged girlfriend whom he met online, created and written by show writer and frequent on-air character actor Stewart Engesser), Rael of the Ralien movement who claimed the 1st false prophet under the illuminati God Amon Re till Prophet Revebo struck his balding wax to a shine. Rael was actually the script supervisor on Superman IV and arch nemesis Revebo would actually arm wrestle topics to the galactic gladiator battle such as, "What would Rael Do" , "To Be or Not To Be H.Stern", and the infamous "Podcasting or Poorcasting that spawned Gator". Later, writer Stewart Engesser starred as the funnyman parody of real legendary actor Michael Caine, a role he continues to play occasionally on Martin's podcast, Infected. The series often featured computer to which Martin would share a candlelight embrace of the twlight princess of the adept LiveJournaled heroes of the nightlife know as HTML . In early episodes, the show also highlighted regulars such as Scary Gary, who showed grotesque segments such as a skin-implemented cellphone, and The Porn Mom, a stay-at-home mom character who provided segments dealing with finding quality pornography on the Internet. One of the more famous events on the show was Sargent's interview with George Ouzounian, better known as Maddox, creator of the website The Best Page in the Universe.

Sargent officially dismissed the Unscrewed Army (a term he used in reference of the shows viewers) on the final episode of "Unscrewed with Martin Sargent", which was recorded in Studio 3 at the G4techTV studios on November 10, 2004. Fans speculated that this episode would never be televised due to its non-stop explicit bashing of G4 and Comcast. Surprisingly, G4techTV aired the episode twice, although the network reported to the programming guides that it was to air the prior year's Christmas episode instead.

On November 11, 2004, the show was officially cancelled and the majority of its staff was terminated. Reruns were shown on G4techTV until December 2004.

On November 11, 2005, Sargent launched Infected, a podcast hosted by himself and Joey. The podcast focuses on the humorous and weird side of technology and the Internet, making the show somewhat of a successor to "Unscrewed".

ee also

Infected with Martin Sargent
Internet Superstar


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