Who is Andy Milonakis?
I don’t know what his childhood was like, but I hope it was nothing like his life on “The Andy Milonakis Show” (8:30 p.m. Sunday, MTV).
Milonakis is the kid in your junior high class who always got picked on. He’s fat, lives in his own fantasy world – and he’s definitely funny.
Now for the shocking news: According to some on the Internet, where his show first appeared, Milonakis is really a 29-year-old comedian equipped with the mental outlook and attitude of a 12-year-old boy. The show is produced and often written by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.
After his show turned up on MTV in June, Milonakis told USA Today, “Not everyone’s going to like it, especially because it’s so weird.”
It’s weird and all about Andy, whether he’s interviewing people on the street and butting in on their answers or doing an ode to the many uses of man’s greatest invention: the spoon.
Other weekend highlights:
Tonight
There goes my Friday night, thanks to back-to-back episodes of “The Simpsons” followed by four consecutive episodes of the underappreciated “Arrested Development” (6-9 p.m., KDVR-Channel 31).
D.L. Hughley jumps into the late-night chat-show derby with his take on the day’s events, celebrity guests, music and on-the-street interviews (midnight Fridays-Sundays, Comedy Central).
Saturday
For real-life crime it’s hard to beat “Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst,” a repeat of the documentary about the newspaper heiress and her kidnappers (7 p.m., KBDI-Channel 12).
Post critic Lisa Kennedy raved that “there is not a bad performance” in “Whale Rider,” a 2003 film about a girl’s coming of age and a Maori legend (8 p.m., KRMA-Channel 6).
Sunday
Turn off your brain, turn on “Beach Girls,” perfectly witless summertime viewing – a six-hour miniseries of life at the seashore, starring Julia Ormand and Rob Lowe (6 p.m., Lifetime).
Another addition to TV’s plentiful cop shows, “Wanted!” is a drama about a special squad running down the most wanted in Los Angeles. It debuts with back-to-back episodes. Plenty of action. (8 p.m., TNT).
Around the dial
Roger Ogden, Bill Perry, Ed “Sheriff Scotty” Scott and Ron Zappolo are the 2005 inductees into the National Television Academy Heartland Chapter’s Silver Circle. They’ll be honored in a confab at the Seawell Ballroom on Oct. 29. … KOA 850-AM switches its national news affilate to FoxNews Radio, beginning Monday. (They were using ABC.) … Whether to make enforcement of marijuana laws a low priority is the topic on “Colorado State of Mind” (7:30 tonight, KRMA-Channel 6). … Quotable: “An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.” Will Rogers
Dick Kreck’s column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-820-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.
