Janet Varney

Janet Varney

Born: February 16, 1976
in Arizona, USA
Janet Varney (born February 16, 1976) is an American comedic actress best known for being the current hostess of TBS's Dinner and a Movie.

Movies for Janet Varney...

Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie!
Title: Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie!
Character: Old Lady Buechler / Amber / Woman (voice)
Released: November 21, 2023
Type: Movie
The holiday season has arrived, and brilliant but accident-prone Steve Urkel has already ruined his local celebration by publicly humiliating a shopping mall Santa. In his attempt to make things right and score some nice points with the big guy in the North Pole, Steve creates an invention that only makes things worse. Using his big brain and even bigger heart, Steve must find the real Santa to see if together they can help the city rediscover the holiday spirit.
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Title: Platonic
Character: Vanessa
Released: May 23, 2023
Type: TV
A platonic pair of former best friends approaching midlife reconnect after a long rift. The duo’s friendship becomes more consuming—and destabilizes their lives in a hilarious way.
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Title: The Legend of Vox Machina
Character: Vilya (voice)
Released: January 27, 2022
Type: TV
They're rowdy, they're ragtag, they're misfits turned mercenaries for hire. Vox Machina is more interested in easy money and cheap ale than actually protecting the realm. But when the kingdom is threatened by evil, this boisterous crew realizes that they are the only ones capable of restoring justice.
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Title: Fails Marathon: Christmas Week 2021
Character: Critical Role Host (archive footage)
Released: December 21, 2021
Type: TV
Holiday season is here with fun laughs.
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Title: Fails Marathon: Christmas Week 2021
Released: December 21, 2021
Type: TV
Holiday season is here with fun laughs.
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Injustice
Title: Injustice
Character: Diana Prince / Wonder Woman (voice)
Released: October 9, 2021
Type: Movie
When Lois Lane is killed, an unhinged Superman decides to take control of the Earth. Determined to stop him, Batman creates a team of freedom-fighting heroes. But when superheroes go to war, can the world survive?
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Title: Country Comfort
Character: Summer
Released: March 19, 2021
Type: TV
When an up-and-coming young country singer accepts a job as a nanny with a musical family, she finds the bond she's always missed.
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Title: Dicktown
Character: Tracey
Released: July 9, 2020
Type: TV
Welcome to Richardsville, NC (aka DICKTOWN to the locals), its famous boy detective, John Hunchman, and his hired muscle, David Purefoy. Except they're not boys any more and while they're still detectives, they still only solve crimes for teenagers.
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Title: Harley Quinn
Character: Mera (voice)
Released: November 29, 2019
Type: TV
Harley Quinn has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker and attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City.
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Title: Bless the Harts
Character: Kitty (voice)
Released: September 29, 2019
Type: TV
The lives of a group of Southerners who are always broke as a joke and struggling for the American dream of status and wealth. What they don’t realize is that they’re already rich — in friends, family and laughter.
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Planet Claire
Title: Planet Claire
Character: Claire (voice)
Released: March 2, 2019
Type: Movie
They call her Planet Claire cause she's the size of a planet, but 11 y.o. Claire turns her insults around. She is a planet and if you're lucky maybe she'll let you stay.
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RiffTrax Live: Day of the Shorts: SF Sketchfest 2019
Title: RiffTrax Live: Day of the Shorts: SF Sketchfest 2019
Character: Self
Released: February 28, 2019
Type: Movie
Bill and Kevin are joined onstage by the great Paul F. Tompkins, and together they host and riff an amazing set of bizarre short films. The shorts cover every subject under the sun (y’know, because “Day”), from workplace safety to childhood safety to sentient talking pillow safety. And that’s not all - we’ve got more guests, riffing teams and legends galore! John Hodgman, Frank Conniff & Trace Beaulieu, Cole Stratton & Janet Varney, and Bridget Nelson with Sean Thomason, RiffTrax Senior Writer, making his live riffing debut.
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Title: Fortune Rookie
Character: Janet Varney
Released: October 2, 2018
Type: TV
On the advice of a fortune teller in a bathroom, Janet Varney leaves showbiz behind to become a psychic. Exploring her gifts (such as they are), Janet parses the future of a Los Angeles populated by the famous, the not-yet-famous, from aspiring cult leaders to aging boy bands. She reads palms, cards and the occasional piece of cheese to help those seeking answers, herself most of all.
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Rifftrax: Batman v. Superman
Title: Rifftrax: Batman v. Superman
Character: Self
Released: December 15, 2017
Type: Movie
The entire Rifftrax gang takes shifts riffing on Batman v. Superman.
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Title: Stan Against Evil
Character: Evie Barret
Released: October 31, 2016
Type: TV
An aging police sheriff who has recently lost his position due to an angry outburst begrudgingly joins an alliance with new sheriff, Evie Barret to battle angry demons haunting their small New Hampshire town.
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Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse
Title: Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse
Character: Shana
Released: October 14, 2016
Type: Movie
A struggling comedy duo discovers that surviving the apocalypse is almost as difficult as surviving in Hollywood.
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Title: American Housewife
Released: October 11, 2016
Type: TV
A family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.
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Title: HarmonQuest
Character: Sedona
Released: July 14, 2016
Type: TV
A fantasy comedy adventure series that melds live action comedians riffing on a stage in front of a live studio audience with animated forays into a fantasy adventure roleplaying game. The intrepid comedians, Dan Harmon, Jeff Davis, and Erin McGathy, along with a rotating special guest member, gather around a kitchen table and attempt to play the game and fail in hilarious fashion, to the chagrin of their adjudicator-referee- Game Master Spencer Crittenden.
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Rifftrax live: Night of the Shorts - SF Sketchfest 2016
Title: Rifftrax live: Night of the Shorts - SF Sketchfest 2016
Character: Herself
Released: April 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Mike, Kevin, and Bill were joined onstage at SF SKetchfest Live 2016 by very special guest riffers Bridget Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl, Cole Stratton, Janet Varney, Adam Savage, Paul F. Tompkins, and John Hodgman including a gigantic, possible world record TEN PERSON riffing grand finale!
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Norm of the North
Title: Norm of the North
Character: Janet (voice)
Released: January 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in New York, Norm begins life anew as a performing corporate mascot, only to discover that his new employers are directly responsible for the destruction of his polar home.
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Rifftrax live: Night of the Shorts - SF Sketchfest 2015
Title: Rifftrax live: Night of the Shorts - SF Sketchfest 2015
Character: Herself
Released: March 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Mike, Kevin, and Bill take on some of the funniest, most unbelievable vintage shorts we've ever found, live in the beautiful Castro Theatre with a crew of hilarious guest riffers! Shorts performed during this event include One Turkey Two Turkey, Setting Up a Room, Writing Better Social Letters, Live and Learn, Making Sense with Sentences, and Safety - In Danger Out of Doors.
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The Thrilling Adventure Hour Live
Title: The Thrilling Adventure Hour Live
Character: Rebecca Rose Rushmore
Released: March 1, 2015
Type: Movie
A concert film designed to bring the live Thrilling Adventure Hour experience to those unable to attend a recording of the show was filmed, as a result of the $165,000 that was raised through the show's Kickstarter campaign.
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Title: You're the Worst
Character: Becca Barbara
Released: July 17, 2014
Type: TV
Narcissistic, brash, and self-destructive Jimmy Shive-Overly thinks all relationships are doomed. Cynical, people-pleasing, and stubborn Gretchen Cutler knows that relationships aren't for her. So when they meet at a wedding, it's only natural that the two of them go home together.
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Present Tense
Title: Present Tense
Character: Cynthia
Released: July 10, 2013
Type: Movie
'Present Tense' is a time-travel comedy short that takes place during the wedding of Alex and Cynthia. Things quickly spiral out of control when the groom's future-selves start popping in to ruin the nuptials. Soon, the bride and groom are watching in horror as their big day is destroyed by a chapel-to-shrapnel laser gunfight and an overabundance of genre conventions.
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RiffTrax Live: Night of the Shorts - SF Sketchfest 2013
Title: RiffTrax Live: Night of the Shorts - SF Sketchfest 2013
Character: Herself
Released: May 30, 2013
Type: Movie
Watch Mike, Bill, Kevin, and an all-star crew of hilarious guest riffers take on seven classic less-than-educational shorts, filmed LIVE onstage at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre in January of this year, in all its gritty, low-light, shakey-cam glory! Show includes: Welcome Back Norman Perc! Pop! Sprinkle! - with Cole Stratton (Pop My Culture Podcast) and Janet Varney (The Legend of Korra) Choking: To Save a Life - with Kevin McDonald (The Kids in the Hall) Cooking Terms More Dangerous Than Dynamite - with Adam Savage (Mythbusters) If Mirrors Could Speak - with Kristen Schaal (30 Rock, Bob’s Burgers, Flight of the Conchords) At Your Fingertips: Cylinders - with Paul F. Tompkins (Best Week Ever, Mr. Show, Tangled)
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Burning Love
Title: Burning Love
Character: Carly
Released: June 1, 2012
Type: Movie
A single fireman looks to fan the flames of passion as he mingles with a pool of romantic interests in this spoof on reality dating competition shows.
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Title: Burning Love
Character: Carly
Released: June 1, 2012
Type: TV
Burning Love is a scripted comedy series which is a web spoof of the television shows The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Bachelor Pad. Depending on the season, the show either follows a man or a woman who is looking for the perfect mate from a pool of contestants, or has contestants living together in a mansion competing for a cash prize. Ben Stiller is executive co-producer. Season 1 showcases fireman Mark Orlando as the bachelor. Season 2 of the series, which premiered in February 2013, stars June Diane Raphael reprising her role as season 1 contestant Julie, now the bachelorette given the chance to find the perfect man. Season 3 also premiered in 2013 and starred former contestants from Seasons 1 and 2 competing for a $900 prize rather than for love.
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Title: MyMusic
Character: Nancy Spackman
Released: April 15, 2012
Type: TV
MyMusic was the primary series that aired on the MyMusicShow YouTube channel. It documented the antics of MyMusic, a transmedia production company where, rather than referring to each other by name, the staff go by the varying music genres with which they associate. CEO and founder Indie heads the team, which consists of people following extremely different–and frequently conflicting–tastes and attitudes. The company claims to have been given the YouTube original channel, which brings along with it a documentary crew filming them day to day. The second season picks up following the burning of the MyMusic building at the conclusion of the first season. After this fire, Indie has the MyMusic team returning to its roots, as well as focus more on social media and the MyMusic blog.
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Title: The Legend of Korra
Character: Korra (voice)
Released: April 14, 2012
Type: TV
Avatar Korra, a headstrong, rebellious, feisty young woman who continually challenges and breaks with tradition, is on her quest to become a fully realized Avatar. In this story, the Avatar struggles to find balance within herself.
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Title: Key & Peele
Released: January 31, 2012
Type: TV
Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television show. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both former cast members of MADtv. Each episode of the show consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors, introduced by Key and Peele in front of a live studio audience.
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Title: The Exes
Character: Lorna
Released: November 30, 2011
Type: TV
A sitcom about three divorced men sharing an apartment across the hall from their female divorce attorney, who is also their landlord.
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Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
Title: Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
Character: Jill Moody (Mom)
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Third-grader Judy Moody sets out to have the most thrilling summer of her life.
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The Selling
Title: The Selling
Character: Mary Best
Released: April 29, 2011
Type: Movie
For most people affected by the recent housing market crash, the impact was financial. Super nice real estate agent Richard Scarry has an additional burden: the paranormal.
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Best Player
Title: Best Player
Character: Tracy Saunders
Released: March 12, 2011
Type: Movie
After his parents decide to move to a retirement home in Florida, professional gamer Quincy “Q” Johnson (Jerry Trainor) must find a way to raise 175,000 dollars to buy his family home. After hearing about a tournament for the game “Black Hole” with a grand prize of 175,500 dollars, Quincy enters the tournament, only to be faced with a new challenge. An equally skilled gamer, named Chris Saunders “Prodigy” (Jeanette McCurdy), has become the one block in Quincy’s plan, defeating him at every turn. Quincy then teams-up with his friend Wendell (Amir Talai), to try and find ways to stop Chris from entering the tournament.
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Title: Hot in Cleveland
Character: Ellen
Released: June 16, 2010
Type: TV
Three fabulous, eccentric, LA best friends of a certain age have their lives changed forever when their plane unexpectedly lands in Cleveland and they soon rediscover themselves in this new "promised land."
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Nic & Tristan Go Mega Dega
Title: Nic & Tristan Go Mega Dega
Character: Howard Fishtickle - Mom
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A day in the life of 10 year old skateboarding twins
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Title: Warehouse 13
Character: Elise
Released: July 7, 2009
Type: TV
After saving the life of the President, two secret service agents - Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer - find themselves assigned to the top secret Warehouse 13. The Warehouse is a massive, top secret facility that houses dangerous and fantastical objects. Together, Pete and Myka along with fellow agents Claudia, Steve Jinks and Warehouse caretaker Artie, must recover artifacts from around the globe before they can cause catastrophic damage.
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Title: Better Off Ted
Character: Female Lawyer
Released: March 18, 2009
Type: TV
Ted, a successful but morally conscious man, runs a research and development department at a morally questionable corporation, Veridian Technologies. No achievement is too far fetched and no invention too unorthodox for Veridian. Ted loves his seemingly perfect job; he loves his superhuman boss, Veronica, and colleagues Lem, Phil and Linda, but he's starting to take a closer look at the company's extremely questionable practices... especially when they try to cryogenically freeze one of Ted's scientists for testing purposes.
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Title: Childrens Hospital
Character: Stacy
Released: December 8, 2008
Type: TV
A hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people who aren't smart enough to keep themselves healthy. So begins Children's Hospital, a parody series that follows the lives, loves and laughs of a hospital staff.
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Drillbit Taylor
Title: Drillbit Taylor
Character: Attractive Woman Driver
Released: February 4, 2008
Type: Movie
Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them, not realizing he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.
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Title: Halfway Home
Released: March 14, 2007
Type: TV
Halfway Home is an American comedy series that aired on Comedy Central in Spring 2007. On its official website, Halfway Home is described as an "improvised half-hour show featuring the daily exploits of five ex-cons living together in a residential rehab facility". After airing 10 episodes, on June 20, 2007 costar Regan Burns confirmed that the show had ended.
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Dante's Inferno
Title: Dante's Inferno
Character: Teacher / Cleopatra / City of Dis Intercom / Ulysses' Usher (voice)
Released: January 18, 2007
Type: Movie
A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps. And the Prince of Darkness himself.
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Title: Happy Hour
Released: September 7, 2006
Type: TV
Happy Hour is a sitcom that debuted on Fox in the United States and on CTV in Canada on September 7, 2006. The show starred John Sloan as Henry Beckman, a young man rebuilding his life after losing his girlfriend, his job, and his apartment. The series was produced by married duo Jackie and Jeff Filgo of That '70s Show. Fox put the show on hiatus in September 2006, and officially canceled it the following May. Thirteen episodes of Happy Hour were made, of which four have aired and nine remain unaired.
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Title: Psych
Character: Connie Camp
Released: July 7, 2006
Type: TV
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
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Title: Psych
Character: Mindy Howland
Released: July 7, 2006
Type: TV
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
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Title: What About Brian
Released: April 16, 2006
Type: TV
Serial monogamist Brian O'Hara hits his mid-30s and suddenly realizes he's the last bachelor standing in his circle of friends. Not averse to the happily ever after his friends have achieved, Brian wonders whether he'll ever find Mrs. Right. The fact that he's in love with his best friend's girlfriend doesn't help his chances.
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Title: Free Ride
Released: March 1, 2006
Type: TV
Free Ride is a Fox partially improvised sitcom starring Josh Dean as "Nate Stahlings", a recent college graduate re-adjusting to life at home with his parents in Johnson City, Missouri. The pilot episode aired on March 1, 2006. Fox canceled the series after just 6 episodes.
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Title: Love, Inc.
Released: September 22, 2005
Type: TV
The energetic staff of LOVE, INC. takes pride in their success as full-service dating consultants. Leading the flourishing team is owner and founder of LOVE, INC., Clea. After her marriage of nine years falls apart, she now finds herself thrust into the dating world once again. Denise Johnson, an energetic, pragmatic, young woman who helps Clea make the company a success, is skilled at helping her clients find their seemingly unattainable soulmates, yet struggles with her inability to find true love. Making the hip busy offices run smoothly is Francine, who in addition to being a excellent wingwoman, has a great sense of fashion style and encourages her clients to trust it. Rounding out the staff is Viviana, a quick-witted and sharp tongued receptionist, and Barry, a wingman whose quirky ways and comments always stun everyone.
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Title: How I Met Your Mother
Character: Stacey
Released: September 19, 2005
Type: TV
A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.
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Title: Bones
Character: Maureen Perot
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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Back to Norm
Title: Back to Norm
Released: May 29, 2005
Type: Movie
TV pilot for a sketch comedy show starring Norm MacDonald
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Catwoman
Title: Catwoman
Character: Party Girl
Released: July 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Liquidated after discovering a corporate conspiracy, mild-mannered graphic artist Patience Phillips washes up on an island, where she's resurrected and endowed with the prowess of a cat — and she's eager to use her new skills... as a vigilante. Before you can say "cat and mouse", handsome gumshoe Tom Lone is on her tail, fascinated by both of her personas.
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Title: Entourage
Released: July 18, 2004
Type: TV
Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
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Title: Crossballs: The Debate Show
Released: July 6, 2004
Type: TV
Crossballs: The Debate Show is a Comedy Central television show which poked fun at cable news networks' political debate shows, especially CNN's Crossfire and MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. In each episode, comedians posing as experts on a particular subject would debate two real commentators. The true experts were unaware that the show was a sham. Topics ranged from reality television to religion to violence in video games. It debuted on July 6, 2004 and ran for eight weeks. It aired Tuesday-Friday at 7:30 p.m. ET. The twenty-third and final episode aired on August 24, 2004. Show number 24 was taped but never aired, after one of the unsuspecting guests, James March, threatened to sue Comedy Central.