Talkshow with Spike
Feresten is an American
talk/sketch/variety television program on Fox starring Spike Feresten. It was originally
aired between September 16, 2006 and May 16, 2009, making it the
longest-running late night talk show in Fox's history. Unlike most
late night talk shows in the United States, it was only aired on
Saturday nights.
Show information
Writers include
Joe Furey,
Jeff Cesario and
Adam
Felber.
Some of the regular sketches on the show include "Idiot Paparazzi",
where photographers hit the streets and take photos of people who
vaguely look like famous people; "Comedy for Stoners", comedy
visuals specially designed for someone who might be stoned;
"Tomorrow's Headlines Today", when Spike reads fictional headlines
("
Ford Lays Itself Off", "
Al
Gore Melts", "
NBC Pre-cancels Fall '07
Lineup" The release of "Tyler Perry's, Why Do I Even Bother Naming
The Movies As Long As It Says "
Tyler
Perry's" In Front of It", etc.) from Sunday's paper from
various newspapers; sponsors for the show (such as Pitters beer, a
very flammable beer sold in a breakaway bottle, with an
AIDS test on the label, etc.), and "Backfat
Sponsorship", where Spike uses one of his writer's (seemingly
Felber, although not identified) backfat to advertise Fortune 500
companies (
Red Bull,
PS3, and
Ign.com).
On May 7, 2007 Fox renewed
Talkshow With Spike Feresten
for a 2nd season, making it the longest running talk show on
Fox.
From January 17, 2009, to February 21, 2009, the show had a
six-week test run of hour-long episodes airing an hour earlier than
usual; this comes in the wake of the recent cancellation of
MADtv. As of the December 13th, 2008 show,
Talkshow with Spike Feresten is broadcast in
HD.
In May of 2009 Fox cancelled the show after three seasons, the
longest-running late night television show in the history of the
Fox network. The program remained on the air in repeats until the
start of
The Wanda Sykes
Show on November 7, 2009.
Sketches
- Lil' Bill
O'Reilly
- Idiot Paparazzi - Spike and some
friends pretend to be Paparazzi and shout the names of celebrities
while snapping photos of passing everyday people who have a
resemblance to the celebrity being shouted.
- Rick Richards reports
- Tomorrow's News Yesterday Today - Spike reads "news from the
future".
- Tomorrow's Headlines Today
- Payday Advance Lenders
- The Donny Riffle Show
- Febreeze Elderly
- Priest in a Yellow Ferrari
- Lot Cops
- Bam! Problem Solved
- Fox News Guy
- Stimurol
- Discriminav
- NPR Morning Zoo
- 30 Second Trading Spaces
- The Heckler Whisperer
- EPPT (Early Pregnancy & Paternity Test)
- Aaron Sorkin's Key Shop
- Transcripts of Books on Tape
- Girl's Fathers Gone Wild - What happens when fathers catch
their girls being videotaped
- Senior Citizen Trannie Lingerie Party
- Dr. Phil's Fan Mail - Spike reads mail intended for Dr. Phil, for voice overs were done by the show's
staff, including Executive Producer Michele Armour, Associate
Producer of Music Blaire Reinhard,
and writing assistant Meghan Gambling.
- Ye Olde Adult Video Shoppe - What porn would have been like
during the American Revolution.
- Shoe Store Predictions
- Backfat Sponsorship -
- Discount Puppies and Cats
- Indignant Editorial
- Lemon Party -
- Classaction Lawsuit
- Crappy Neighbor
- Celebrity Space Shuttle
- Clinica de Medico
- What's Nuts Now? - in the episode with Jerry Seinfeld
- Cops Guy
- Chinese Product Recall
- Comedy for Stoners - a series of sketches that should only be
considered funny to stoners.
- Pitters Beer - an ad for a beer that makes you wince when you
drink it.
- How to do a Nerdy Intern Segment - starring actual nerdy
staffer, DJ Lubel, the show's researcher.
- The Unfair Target
- Hollywood Douchebags
Lil' View
Comedy for Stoners
- Extreme Hitlers - Teenagers dressed in Hitler clothing skateboarding in a music video
- Shaolin Cats - Cats that "do battle" in a Mortal Kombat style
- Electric Lincoln - Abraham
Lincoln, under the influence of drugs, states some historical
"facts". (The actor portraying Lincoln is one of the show's
editors, Neil Grieve)
- Horrifyingly Sexy Larry King - Larry
King's head placed over the body of a dancer dressed in a
bikini and suspenders
- Fat Albert Gore - Fat Albert dressed
in a suit sings about the environment in the way Al Gore would make a speech about the
environment
- Strobe Light Monkeys - Monkeys dance around to the song
"99 Luftballons", while strobe lights
flash in the background
- Electric Lincoln Par II - Lincoln gets shot this time
around
- Mexican Space Lizard - A lizard in a sombrero with space scenes in the background
- Slow-Mo Humanimal Races - Two people dressed as animals race
through a hallway in slow motion. (The panda humanimal is one of
the show's writers, Adam Felber, and the tiger humanimal is the
show's Associate Producer of Music, Blaire Reinhard)
- Cheeto Dogfights - Two fighter planes made of Cheetos fight in the sky
- Martin Scorsese's Exploding Squirrel - A squirrel explodes
- Vincent Gallo Underwear Parade - A parade of guys in their
underwear
- Morbidly Obese Aquarium - Underwater view of morbidly obese men
swimming in their underwear
- Bigfoot Opera - an Opera where Bigfoot
rides a unicorn
- Senior Citizen Trannie Lingerie Party - Old men dress in
lingerie and dance
- Horrifyingly Sexy Hannity and Colmes - Same as with "Sexy Larry
King"
- Smooth Jazz Rectal Exams - People getting rectal exams as jazz
music plays
- Emo Baby VS. Goth Baby Smackdown - Two babies, one a goth and one emo, fighting each
other
- Mr. Happy Handshake - A man who farts when you shake his hand
meets a guy who shakes people's hands when they fart
- Nightvision Elvis - Three Elvises shown in
Nightvision
- Racist Nose Party - A black finger tries to pick a white
nose
- Techno Turtle - A Turtle dances to techno music
- The Narcoleptic skydiver - A skydiver prone to fall asleep
- Comedy for stoners live - A live guest creates his own comedy
for stoners
- Rainbows - The hidden truth about rainbows
- S.M.A.P. - A shy mooner's solution to mooning
List of episodes
Note: All episodes in season one were taped during fall 2006 for
broadcast throughout the year. As of season two, each episode now
records the Thursday night before broadcast, although several
episodes were taped at once in the wake of the 2007 writers'
strike.
Season 1
| Production # |
Original Airdate |
Guests |
| 5031-06-101 |
September 16, 2006 |
Andy Richter |
| 5031-06-102 |
September 23, 2006 |
Mary Lynn Rajskub |
| 5031-06-104 |
September 30, 2006 |
Michael McDonald |
| 5031-06-105 |
October 7, 2006 |
Thomas
Lennon |
| 5031-06-103 |
October 14, 2006 |
Tom Green |
| 5031-06-108 |
October 21, 2006 |
Jerry Seinfeld |
| 5031-06-109 |
November 4, 2006 |
Jason Alexander |
| 5031-06-106 |
November 11, 2006 |
Joey Greco |
| 5031-06-113 |
November 18, 2006 |
Fred Willard |
| 5031-06-111 |
November 25, 2006 |
Jeff Garlin |
| 5031-06-114 |
December 9, 2006 |
Cheryl Hines |
| 5031-06-121 |
December 16, 2006 |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| 5031-06-120 |
January 6, 2007 |
Carl Reiner |
| 5031-06-116 |
January 20, 2007 |
Tim Meadows |
| 5031-06-117 |
February 3, 2007 |
Tom Arnold |
| 5031-06-119 |
February 10, 2007 |
John C. McGinley |
| 5031-06-115 |
February 17, 2007 |
Melinda Clarke |
| 5031-06-122 |
February 24, 2007 |
Bobby Lee |
| 5031-06-118 |
March 24, 2007 |
Seth MacFarlane |
| 5031-06-112 |
April 7, 2007 |
Alex Borstein |
| 5031-06-110 |
April 28, 2007 |
Michael Rapaport |
| 5031-06-107 |
May 19, 2007 |
Dave Foley |
Season 2
| Production # |
Original Airdate |
Guests |
| 5031-07-201 |
September 15, 2007 |
Ryan Seacrest |
| 5031-07-202 |
September 22, 2007 |
Brian Baumgartner |
| 5031-07-203 |
September 29, 2007 |
Eddie Kaye Thomas |
| 5031-07-205 |
October 6, 2007 |
Louis C.K. |
| 5031-07-211 |
November 3, 2007 |
Patrick Warburton, Jerry Seinfeld (as host) |
| 5031-07-208 |
November 10, 2007 |
Carl Reiner |
| 5031-07-209 |
November 17, 2007 |
Andy Kindler |
| 5031-07-210 |
November 24, 2007 |
Nick Bakay |
| 5031-08-213 |
January 12, 2008 |
Thomas Dekker and Mark L. Walberg |
| 5031-08-213 |
January 19, 2008 |
Jordin Sparks |
| 5031-08-218 |
January 26, 2008 |
Bryan Cranston |
| 5031-08-217 |
February 2, 2008 |
Jimmy Smith and Doug Anderson |
| 5031-08-220 |
February 9, 2008 |
John Langley |
| 5031-08-221 |
February 16, 2008 |
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim |
| 5031-07-212 |
February 23, 2008 |
David Koechner |
| 5031-07-204 |
March 8, 2008 |
Tom Green |
| 5031-07-214 |
March 15, 2008 |
George Wallace |
| 5031-07-207 |
March 29, 2008 |
Nick Swardson |
| 5031-08-222 |
April 5, 2008 |
Adam Carolla |
| 5031-07-206 |
April 19, 2008 |
James Kyson Lee |
| 5031-08-219 |
April 26, 2008 |
Luenell |
| 5031-08-215 |
May 17, 2008 |
Maz Jobrani |
Season 3
| Production # |
Original Airdate |
Guests |
| 5031-08-301 |
September 13, 2008 |
Kara DioGuardi |
| TBA |
September 20, 2008 |
Rex Lee |
| TBA |
September 28, 2008 |
Kevin Farley |
| TBA |
October 4, 2008 |
Bo Burnham |
| TBA |
October 11, 2008 |
Glenn Howerton |
| TBA |
November 1, 2008 |
Craig Robinson |
| TBA |
November 8, 2008 |
Vanilla Ice |
| TBA |
November 15, 2008 |
David Archuleta |
| TBA |
November 22, 2008 |
Olivia Munn, Hanson |
| TBA |
December 13, 2008 |
J.B. Smoove |
| TBA |
January 17, 2009 |
Lisa Kudrow, Todd Barry, The
Submarines |
| TBA |
January 24, 2009 |
Mary Lynn Rajskub, Trace Adkins |
| TBA |
January 31, 2009 |
Drew Pinsky, Ben Lyons, G. Love |
| TBA |
February 7, 2009 |
Dana Carvey, Perez Hilton, Olivia
Munn, Penn Fraser
Jillette |
| TBA |
February 14, 2009 |
Seth MacFarlane, Andy Richter, Jack
Osbourne |
| TBA |
February 21, 2009 |
Jennifer Morrison, Tom Papa, Shirley
Manson |
| TBA |
March 7, 2009 |
Cheech and Chong |
| TBA |
March 14, 2009 |
Carl Reiner, Bo Burnham |
| TBA |
March 21, 2009 |
Crista Flanagan |
| TBA |
March 28, 2009 |
Niecy Nash |
| TBA |
April 25, 2009 |
Tony Rock |
| TBA |
May 16, 2009 |
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim |
International broadcasts
See also
References
External links
, the program
airs on Global or E!, depending on the market.
,
, the program
used to air on TV3. But was
dropped after only 2 shows.
, the program
airs on Stöð 2 Extra.
, the program
airs on Bip channel.
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