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Wed, Jan 18, 2006
Titus Season 3
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Comedian Christopher Titus comes from a background that, to put it gently, is profoundly troubled. Others might go so far as to call it what it is: deeply fucked up. Upon discovering a statistic that over 60 percent of American homes are dysfunctional and realizing that meant that he and his family were in the majority, Titus set out to share his pain with the world. As a young comedian, Titus would riff on, among other things, his mother's mental illness and eventual suicide, his father's incessant drinking, tough-love parenting and numerous wives, fights with his father and getting into trouble with his step-brother. All of this angst was eventually turned into the stand-up work "Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding," (serving as the basis for his TV show lasting three seasons and 54 episodes) which is every bit as caustic, revealing and poignant as moments in the aforementioned short-lived series. This i... Read the entire review
Titus Season 3
