My Mother the Podcast

What happens if you take one of the most popular comedians in the world and set him loose on primetime?! Well, in 1996 what happened was a short-lived experiment in melding SNL and Kids in the Hall into ABC's new, definitely-not-family-friendly sketch-and-impression-fest, The Dana Carvey Show! Hey, wait a minute, is that Stephen Colbert?

Do you love Weird Al? Do you love awkwardly random kid's programming? Do you like meddling studio execs? Then you'll LOVE CBS's ill-fated 1997 attempt to turn Weird Al into a kid-TV star! Of course, if you love humor, you might not...come listen and find out!

This week on My Mother the Podcast, we're tackling the Teletoon/MTV Phil Lord/Chris Miller animated sitcom Clone High! Do any of these characters need to be historical figures? Should anyone be drawn with THAT many angles? Did the creators just get high and make a wretched Bill & Ted ripoff? Tune in to find out!

This week, Dave and Colin celebrate MMtP's 40th episode from their social isolation situations with Fox's 2001 conspiracy-comedy-X-Files-spinoff The Lone Gunmen's pilot episode, er, "The Pilot." Yep. It took us this long, but we're finally discussing a touching, heartfelt 9/11 TV special...that came out...before 9/11? COINCIDENCE?

It's a quarantine special as Dave and Colin relaunch MMtP with a new format to discuss Dreamworks/NBC's 2004–2005 Siegfried-and-Roy steaming-pile-of-garbage sitcom, Father of the Pride! How did they get a cast this good? How is the animation this bad? Will we make it through this?