Back in 2005, Adam Sandler and friends produced a pilot for Comedy Central entitled ‘Gay Robot.’ It featured Nick Swardson pulling double duty as both the lead actor and the machine’s voice. The laugh network decided not to pick up the pilot; however, since the original airing it has grown a huge cult following. Clips of the rejected half hour have appeared on YouTube and MySpace, and they’ve attracted almost a hundred thousand viewers. This resurgence in popularity has actually inspired executives to reexamine the two year old laugher.
According to Zap2It.com, the network is actually considering morphing the once condemned series into an animated half hour weekly. I’m not kidding. Normally, I support everything Nick Swardson does. Grandma’s Boy was the perfect blend of lowbrow humor and witty dialogue, and I even thought he was one of the lone bright spots in Benchwarmers. That being said, this pilot is terrible. Adam Sandler has a long history of passing irreverent noises and foolish, sophomoric digressions off as comedy, but this shit show probably tops even his most pathetic and feeble previous attempts.
The first (and thankfully only episode) was nothing more than a bad concoction of wine cooler jokes, tired Brokeback Mountain quips, and below-average acting. It takes a relatively funny SNL sketch idea and forces it out over twenty brutal minutes. I’m not sure who the 32,000 MySpace friends of ‘Gay Robot’ are, but chances are they’re same highschoolers who have an asthma attack every time they watch Little Nicky. Here’s to hoping Comedy Central takes a step back and realizes this brand of comedy should stay where it belongs: at ADHD-riddled middle school lunch tables.
