Daniel Tosh is Completely Serious About "Tosh.0"

Comedian Daniel Tosh, who has become famous through his insistently exaggerated absurdities/truths with regard to the mundaneity of suburban America, has been given a platform on Comedy Central to point out that the internet is a virtual wilderness of the pointless, the useless, and the magnetic. "Tosh.0" is that platform and Daniel Tosh probably promotes it best with the line, "Let us be your 30-minute break from porn."

What could be more topical than the internet? Immediate information at one's fingertips -- with video. And you don't have to turn to CNN (but you can surf there if you wish), Fox News, HLN, MSNBC or your favorite radio station and wait for the next news cycle. It is literally "right there." It is accessible. And all it takes is a couple keystrokes and you can while away the hours watching skiing squirrels, learning to play guitar from novices, joining a cult, watching and listening to Susan Boyle and Rick Astley and Kajagoogoo (over and over and over), and watching the mentally incapacitated do any number of insane things to themselves (read: "Jackass" wannabes).

Daniel Tosh will host a show to reveals what you've been missing or, if you're up on the latest viral, what you've been searching and/or watching.

For those unfamiliar with Daniel Tosh's work, simply use the medium he will use to entertain you -- the internet. Go to YouTube and watch a couple of his routines. Quite possibly the funniest guy working stand-up comedy today, Tosh still pulls off that smartass teenager attitude (it helps that he looks like he's perpetually 19, even though he's 33) commingled with incisive commentary into our ridiculously self-absorbed society. The more offensive to his audience's sensibilities, the better. And he always looks like he's playing a mental soundtrack of something even more amusing than whatever outrageous comment he's just uttered.

As part of the ramp-up to the new series, Comedy Central has been broadcasting Daniel Tosh's 2007 hour-long special "Completely Serious" a couple times a day. If ever a guy paid homage to irreverence, it is Tosh in "Completely Serious": "I hate you, Google. You've caused a lot of problems in my relationship. I share a computer with my girlfriend and she would look up anything. "I'm going to look up apples today." She just hits 'A.' It's "Asian ass porn" instantly. Google is, like, "I'll take it from here. I know exactly what you're looking up... Well, every time you hit 'A,' it's 'Asian ass porn.'" Google! All I ask is that you let her type three letters before you jump to such a bold conclusion."

Perhaps "Tosh.0" is Tosh's method of getting back at Google and the internet for complicating his life via extrapolation...

Daniel Tosh recently brought his unique barbed audaciousness to Northwestern University. When asked by North By Northwestern, the award-winning Northwestern University online magazine, about his own college experience, Tosh told them, "I don't know, I didn't like school. I didn't like studying because college is hard, and I didn't enjoy that. Like, it's not like a Van Wilder film, which came out years after I graduated but still portrays a not-so-realistic picture. It wasn't fun really, and it was a lot of work. I'm one of those people who had to study really hard to get kind of bad grades. So, no. And everything I was studying, I didn't like or wasn't interested in. I had a business degree, and I was like "Oh, I'm taking this because I know I don't want to do this with my life." I would have to study almost everything to realize what I do want to do, which I still haven't figured out yet. It's not comedy though, that's for sure."

When asked what the public could expect from his new show, he recently told North By Northwestern, "To be let down. To say look at him, he's sold out, he's not as funny on television as he is live. You know, the normal. But what I hope is that it's a show that you're like "Oh, that's not awful. I'll watch it again." I'd like people to watch it long enough for me to be on the air more than just a couple months. I'd like to get a decent run out of this. That way, I don't have to only do stand-up to pay my bills. I need to diversify somewhat, or I'm going to kill myself. You have the exclusive - I will put a bullet in my head if I'm still doing stand-up, only stand-up, five years from now."

So... watch Daniel Tosh's new show, "Tosh.0," so he won't shoot himself.

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"Tosh.0" will air on Comedy Central Network on Thursdays. It premieres June 4.

Read the Monica Kim interview "Daniel Tosh: 'I have the aptitude of a chimp...'" at North by Northwestern (NorthbyNorthwestern.com).

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Sources:

NorthbyNorthwestern.com

"Tosh.0," Comedy Central Network

"Completely Serious," Comedy Central Network