"Tosh.0" -- The Top 25 Programs of 2017, No. 23

It was easy to end it with so many of the other funnymen on television for reasons explained in my Graham Norton shoutoutamp160 So why not youamp160 Your Comedy Central showamp160Tosh0 is so puerile that a man in my position ought not to repeatedly tell the world that it is one of my favorites and that you never fail to make me laughI should have signed off years agoamp160 I was way beyond your target demo when your show premiered now Iamp8217m growing old with itamp160 The best reason I can think of for my unwavering support of your program is that your timing was and remains perfectamp160 When you came along in 2009 television was in the early stages of what we refer to now as Peak TV and streaming services were not yet ubiquitousamp160 Now more content services than anyone can immediately name are producing more amp8220high qualityamp8221 shows than anyone can count and it seems that everyone involved in all of them is taking everything way too seriously including the comediesThatamp8217s all well and good but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing amp160A steady diet of fine dining makes said fare feel less special over timeamp160 The same is true of television entertainmentamp160 Iamp8217ll admit it has something to do with having a job that requires keeping up with the best of television but there are times when I canamp8217t deal with The Deuce or The Crown or The Handmaidamp8217s Tale or Madame Secretary or even This Is UsI donamp8217t necessarily want to think every time I turn I sit down to relax and watch televisionamp160 Thatamp8217s where your show comes inamp160 As I noted in my commentary about your show last year in my 2016 Top 25 list quotAt times this tsunami of intelligent programming starts to feel like homework amp8211 thatamp8217s the ordinary civilian in me talking not the television critic amp160And so it is that I once again give thanks at this special time of year for the enduring escapism of Tosh0 a quick dose of which clears the mind of all cumbersome thought plus the worries of the dayamp160and fills the bloodstream with those chemicals that are said to be produced by sustained laughterquotDuring this period of its history when so much of television is so serious and demanding of time and intellect your weekly halfhour assemblage of halfminute clips featuring halfwitted individuals doing profoundly stupid things lovingly culled from the internet and packaged in funny ways for which you do not get enough credit is the pause that refreshesYou never fail to make us laugh and for that we thank youPreviously in the Top 25 of 2017The Graham Norton Show No 24The Mary Tyler Moore Show No 25Click on the social media tiles above or below to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively those of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated bloggersamp160

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