99 Words About … The missed opportunity of ‘1600 Penn’
It's like someone spliced together bits of Adam Sandler, Chris Farley and every third Will Ferrell character, locked the results away for its formative years and force-fed it Red Bull, Sugar Smacks and slapstick comedies before giving it multiple head traumas.
Meet Skip Gilchrist (Josh Gad). His dad's the president.
Skip's best in small doses. He should be comic relief. Yet he's the face of "1600 Penn" (9:30 p.m. Monday, KSNV-TV, Channel 3).
Gad, Tony-nominated for "The Book of Mormon," co-created the comedy with former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett.
It has the bona fides. Now it just needs laughs.
- CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE
