Wonder Showzen: Season 1

How subversive is "Wonder Showzen," the hilariously twisted "Sesame Street"
parody that premiered in 2005? The allegedly hip and rebellious (but actually
very corporate) MTV aired it on its pot-smoking little brother MTV2 instead. It
was too awesome to appear on MTV, suckas!!

The brainchild of New York writer/musician/performers John Lee and Vernon
Chatman, "Wonder Showzen" is part of the post-modern no-taboos comedy that has
become popular the last few years (witness the film "The Aristocrats" and
comedians like Sarah Silverman) but that has been around since Richard Pryor and
Lenny Bruce, of course.

But where some comics have an underlying point to make -- a REASON to break
all the taboos -- "Wonder Showzen" seems interested only in deconstructing the
"kids show" format and pumping it full of unbridled lunacy. It exists just to be
funny, in other words, not to make yo...
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