Just watched the first episode of the Dunham Show. It’s just as – if not a bit more – funny as the Dave Chappelle Show, which I thought sucked. Of course both of their stand up routines rock, but the shows are average with a few gems sprinkled around – they can’t be better than that.

It’s tough – Jeff can’t get the audience and the following that he wants without doing the weekly gigs or a weekly tv show, and he can’t entertain his audience with every single line or every single joke (lots of repetition, the bane of any over-exposed artist).

Ideally we’d just get to see Jeff and the gang at the end of every year in an HBO special, but that’s not going to happen.

And a tv gig drastically reduces the travel time required in traveling around the country doing live shows. It’s ironic that the show was launched in the year after his divorce, which presumably was because of his workload and not any fascination with making inanimate objects speak at inopportune times.

Jeff – best of luck for the show, but I’ll wait for the HBO special.