Spade takes plenty of risks with his commentary and that of his nightly guests.
With nearly all of the profanity mercifully unbeeped, and blunt sexual innuendos, this is not the pablum-like soporific that main stream late night shows have long since been reduced to. The volatile mix of relatively unknown comedians with comic icons (e.g.: Jay Leno, Dana Carvey, Dennis Miller, Drew Carey, etc.) improving and cracking-wise with lurid and profane gusto, walk all over Spade's daily pop headlines. Hip, unpredictable, "Lights Out." has plenty of rough edges - like any new show.
#LIGHTS OUT WITH DAVID SPADE MOVIE#
"Lights Out." is a mile-a-minute, in-your-face, and very funny antidote to the insufferable network late-night placeboes (that contain nothing more than tiresome political diatribes or annoying showcases for their guests' latest movie - not entertaining). Is this really how you want to play out your mid 50s? I watched another episode to give it one more chance. He does his opening monologue with a plastic beer cup in his hand so it's obvious he's still working his snarky frat-boy angle. I'm not trying to be a life coach, I'm just trying to make David Spade a more interesting human being. Pop culture references aren't sophistication, dude. I'm not one to get offended, and this show didn't offend me, but vulgar isn't my cup of tea, not now, not ever. Spade is trying for some sort of burlesque atmosphere but it comes across as just seedy and vulgar. As if the show could sink any further, he had Dennis Miller on one night who is like anti-humor, he's like Rush Limbaugh's nephew. C or D List guests, tired, unfunny attempts at humor, and nothing in the way of entertainment. Old Review: I really wanted to like this show, I swear. He recently had an episode with Adam Sandler that was quite good, to be truthful. I thought he was great in Rules of Engagement. I originally trashed this, but I've come around a bit. why does anybody go on a gossip show to trashtalk celebrities. Best thing about this show is the guests as there are many interesting names from the standup comedy world on and most of the time its them who steal the show. And the whole show concept feels equally forced with worn out late night tropes and a weird appealing to young audiences with Tweets about celebrities on a large screen like a smartphone. Spade feels forced most of the time, showing off his sneakers and telling us who he would have sex with or had or how he worked on SNL. Most of the subjects are utterly unimportant and interesting only to people who watch TMZ and need to stalk celebrities and rummage through their trash. So you get a show with him coming out, telling jokes about celebrity news and then sitting down with his guests who can join in on more celebrity jokes with their comments. If you start a show like that, thats a statement. The show starts with him watching something on a laptop and commenting while being filmed on a phone or doing selfies and every single opening joke is unfunny. David Spade tries to act cool but his jokes are mostly not funny as his humor seems to consist primarily of making fun of others.
"Lights out" is another copycat show with an extemely bland host. Overall, I loved Lights Out with David Spade and I think that everyone who is staying up at 11:30 at night and need something to do or just need a good laugh, Lights Out with David Spade is the way to go. Every host does it different and frankly, I enjoy this format of a late night show as you never really see a panel/table during late night shows I have nothing really negative to say except for one piece of advice, I think David should incorporate some skits and sketches to his show like Trevor Noah does on The Late Show, I think if he does this along with audience participation and also giving a little extra time to go into each topic presented to the panel, he can take this show far and I can see this show going for a few seasons. I know some people may not like the format of not having an actual guest star on the show every night and that they mainly talk about pop culture, but people need to understand that this is David's way of doing late night.
#LIGHTS OUT WITH DAVID SPADE PLUS#
David Spade brought his witty comedy to late night and finally made late night actually enjoyable to watch which as a fan and follower of late night shows, is a total plus for me. And let me tell you, the show did not disappoint at all. I have admired David Spade for a while now and I am a huge fan of his so you can imagine how excited I was for Lights Out With David Spade.