Current TV's "InfoMania:" A comic deluge of pop culture sludge
The first time I saw Current TV's "InfoMania," it struck me as just a riff on E!'s "The Soup" aimed at more caffeinated, ADD'd viewers. Host Conor Knighton felt like just another variation of those casually amped-up hosts on any number of shows trying to be "hip" to "the kids." But I watched again, and it's now apparent that the reason Knighton speaks with such energy is because he has an awful lot of jokes to bulldoze his way through.
"InfoMania" is indeed a mash-up of "The Soup" and "The Daily Show," with its once-over of the week's events in politics, pop culture and weird corners of the Internets and how just idiotically the media (TV journalists, magazines) covered them. They rag pretty amusingly on everything from bizarre Craigslist ads to iTunes' Top 5 to Bill O'Reilly.
My favorite in this episode is Ben Hoffman, who presents a Tech Report on Amazon.com's new Kindle: "Finally, a reading device without all those messy wires," he marvels in a laconic deadpan while reading his teleprompter slightly clumsily and holding up a book with wires coming out of practically every page. Maybe I like Hoffman because he's the one guy on the show who doesn't talkrealfast.
There's also amusing looks at the glut of online contests for amateur filmmakers and the joys of nature footage - well, of animals tearing one another apart, at least - on YouTube. Anyway, watch this and you'll be able to bluff your way through almost any weekend party conversation.
- "InfoMania:" New episodes air Thursdays at 7 p.m. on Current TV, and then can be seen at current.com.
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