Big Lake—Big Suckage

Big Lake is the newest show to premiere on Comedy Central. Produced by that one guy that starred in Land of the Lost and Anchorman (Will Ferrell), the show is…

God, this show is terrible.

It was marketed out the ass by Comedy Central, apparently because they thought it was gonna be the “next big thing.” And it’s big, all right. I’ve never seen so much failgravy in one place.

It’s like the writers forgot to actually include jokes in the goddamn script and, instead, struck us with a laugh track every 3 seconds. I’m not exaggerating—there are literally laugh tracks when no jokes are being said. Every 4 sentences, there is canned laughter from an audience who was most certainly paid to guffaw on command.

But don’t just take my word for it! Here’s what Twitter had to say. The tweets from the rest of the universe are in quotations. My witty repartee is everything that isn’t in quotes (duh):

“i was so excited to watch #BigLake. supposedly created by will ferrel. but it is TERRIBLE! this will be my first and last episode”
Lucky. I had to watch them both.

“is there anything Will Ferrell and Adam McKay CAN do?”
Apparently, they can break a ton of people’s hearts. Just like when Jean-Claude Van Damme turned down a role in The Expendables.

“#BigLake has some awkwardly placed laugh-track, like they couldn’t tell when the show was trying to be funny and when it was just dialogue”
Spoiler: There WAS no funny.

“Watching #BigLake on #ComedyCentral. I predict it wont even make it to the 3rd episode. ITS SO BAD!”
I… I don’t think that’s how this works. I agree that it’s terrible, but I think they operate by the season. Unless they have a special pro-Hitler episode, they won’t pull it THAT quick.

“I think I have PTSD from #BigLake. It was so awful it felt like watching several kittens drown.”
That was pretty accurate, actually. I really have nothing to add to that.

I actually tweeted this: “It’s like Will Ferrell shot comedy just to watch it die.”

There were a bunch more, but I’m fairly sure you get the picture.

I can’t, in good conscience, recommend Big Lake. There are no jokes, and the abuse of the laugh track makes it seem like they’re trying to force the “funny” on you. It’s the comedy equivalent of rape. Stay away.