Chris Elliot deserves none of the inattention that some people have given him. Ick… hat's a horrible compliment. What I should say, and what is true, is that Elliott has made me laugh in everything he's done, no matter how weird it was. His writing and performing on Letterman, his sitcom Get a Life, his movie Cabin Boy, his recurring character on Everybody Loves Raymond, his season on SNL, his small but crucial role in There's Something About Mary… always weird. Always funny.And his new weird project is Eagleheart, Adult Swim's new 'shorts' series on Cartoon Network. In it, Elliot plays Chris Monsanto, a Marshall who is driven partly by his need to avenge each of his dead partners, and partly by his desire "to punch people so hard that they explode."
Elliott is flanked by Maria Thayer and Brett Gelman, who play his partners. Why two partners? So it doesn't hurt him as much when one of them dies. At least that's the argument offered by Chief, played by Michael Gladis (you'll know him from Mad Men).
The characters are not believable. The plots are simple and contrived. They humor is ridiculous and the violence is graphic. It's wonderful. Really.
Watch it Thursdays at midnight. (So 'technically' Friday, but nobody really thinks that way. It's "Thursday night" for normal people.)
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