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Thursday
January 18, 2007

I heart David Alan Grier

Female Jackie D | Category: Comedy
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He's back! Grier will host an improv show, with Dave Foley as judge, that sounds semi-interesting:

Thank God You're Here" is based on a simple premise: challenge celebrity guests to enter a door into their own comedy sketch they know nothing about. Whether it's an operating room, an Egyptian tomb, an executive boardroom, a far-flung starship or any other scenario, the only thing each celebrity can count on is their quick wit and a desperate greeting upon their arrival, "Thank God you're here!"

I don't think many celebrities actually have "quick wit," which should make for some trainwreck iewing. Anyway, here's Grier as Antoine Merriweather in the Men on Films sketch he and Damon Wayans used to do on In Living Color:

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On Loveline he was brilliant.

Comment by Crid on January 19, 2007 4:37 PM