{"id":1198,"date":"2008-02-19T16:41:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T16:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2008-02-19T16:41:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T16:41:39","slug":"free-radio-makes-vh1-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"FREE RADIO Makes VH1 Relevant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6511eFgf8hA&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6511eFgf8hA&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6511eFgf8hA\">All About Walken<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>Completely improvised, Free Radio offers a fresh alternative to the typical sitcom, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/shows\/dyn\/free_radio\/series_about.jhtml\">showing just how far real A-List celebrities will go to tolerate a complete moron<\/a>. In season one, Hollywood luminaries from &#8220;24&#8217;s&#8221; Kiefer Sutherland to &#8220;Heroes'&#8221; Jack Coleman and comedy legend Ray Romano are subjected to the idiot storm that is Lance and &#8220;Moron in the Morning.&#8221;  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would not have believed it possible. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/shows\/dyn\/free_radio\/series.jhtml\">FREE RADIO is a improvised comedy series on VH1<\/a>. Yes, VH1 has comedy. No, they don&#8217;t play videoes anymore. We&#8217;re long past that stage of questioning.<\/p>\n<p>The celebrity camoes are A-Listers. I&#8217;m unsure how they managed that but I am sure it makes all the difference.  Watching Lance make random asshat comments is half the fun.  Seeing which of those A-List folk have the chops for improv is the other half.<\/p>\n<p>The Skinny in newly fashionable list form:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vh1.com\/utag\/series\/free-radio\/24459\/\">FREE RADIO Blog<\/a>\n<li>What the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/shows\/dyn\/free_radio\/series_about.jhtml\">series is about<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/video\/play.jhtml?id=1581022&#038;vid=207715\">Lance Gets a Billboard: Full Act 1 featuring HEROES&#8217; Jack Coleman aka HRG<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/video\/play.jhtml?id=1581250&#038;vid=207779\">Jack Coleman &#8211; &#8220;Twist on a Twist&#8221;<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sidenote: You can be friends with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/allaboutwalken\">All About Walken<\/a>. Woah, that&#8217;s a whole lotta Walken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All About Walken&#8220; Completely improvised, Free Radio offers a fresh alternative to the typical sitcom, showing just how far real A-List celebrities will go to tolerate a complete moron. In season one, Hollywood luminaries from &#8220;24&#8217;s&#8221; Kiefer Sutherland to &#8220;Heroes&#8217;&#8221; Jack Coleman and comedy legend Ray Romano are subjected to the idiot storm that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}