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Naked Trucker & T-Bones Show, The

SERIES: Comedy Central, Wednesday 10:30p (30 minutes)

Starring Dave (Gruber) Allen, and David Koechner

Genre(s): Comedy, Variety

FIRST AIR DATE: January 17, 2007

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

52 / 100

Critic Reviews

80 Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
A pleasurable hang loose dose of lowbrow lunacy for the smart set in a wigged-out Hicksville variety show.
75 Entertainment Weekly Josh Wolk
The writing's clever, though spotty. [19 Jan 2007, p.74]
70 Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Highly amusing.
60 Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
They work well together, especially considering their partnership is a relatively new facet of their careers. But their work as a comedy duo loses some of its edge when it is refined and processed, sliced and diced, and repackaged for half-hour episodes of television.
50 Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
[It] is funny in parts, which may be funny enough for some. But they must be plucked from a show that never quite gets going the way it should, never gathers satisfying speed but instead struggles like an overloaded semi on a mountain grade.
50 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Occasionally amusing, "Naked Trucker" is mostly just odd.
40 Variety Brian Lowry
Allen and Koechner are pleasant enough company that it's not a particularly bad way to waste a half-hour, but for anyone seeking the kind of full-throttle mirth the title's lunacy would suggest, sorry, but you'll have to keep on truckin'.
30 Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Ultimately, though, the show doesn't work. The humor isn't as sharp or imaginative or ironic as it needs to be, to justify all the free-floating oddness.
20 The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
Nothing in “The Naked Trucker & T-Bones Show” glides off the tongue. And all the Quaker State Motor Oil in the world couldn’t silken the delivery.

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