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Um, I’m starting to almost feel bad making fun of NBC at this point, and I know that they are doing their best (are they though?) to fill all those coveted 10PM time slots now that The Jay Leno show has moved to 11:30PM, but between this and The Marriage Ref I am really starting to worry about the mental well-being of that network’s executives. At the very least I’m starting to wonder if they’ve ever even SEEN television before. Because The Marriage Ref is a joke, and to answer the rhetorical question posed by this post’s headline, the answer is NO, SARAH JESSICA PARKER READING HER FAMILY TREE IN A LIBRARY IS NOT A SHOW.
I do love how the climactic conclusion of this clip is that Sarah Jessica Parker is “a prime candidate right now to have something to do with the Salem Witch Trials.” Whoa, a candidate to have something to do with the Salem Witch Trials? This show is getting nuts! Just kidding. Because this isn’t a show.
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Sarah Jessica Parker’s lineage should be easy to track right? Surely having a grandfather as famous as Seabiscuit would mean that her pedigree is well documented.
No jokes about Sarah Jessica Parker looking like a horse, please. This is not that kind of website, and it is not that kind of 2005.
If its not 2005, then how do you explain this Minidisk of ‘Don’t Phunk with My Heart’ that I’ve been listening to on a loop all week?
Does werttrew have like a list of what we can/ can’t make fun of on Videogum without getting downvoted?
Seabiscuit Jessica Parker is ALWAYS okay in my book.
Why would we want a list for that?
It’s not? Dammit, just as I was about it make a “I heard she had an ancestor who rode with Custer during his Last Stand…sorry, ‘was ridden by’” remark. Unfortunately, the only other lazy go-to joke I generally have for Ms. Parker involves the name of the blow-up doll based on her some porn company produced. (Google it!) And believe me, nobody wants that joke made here either…
Was this in the fine print for the RESET button?
(still funny?)
Sarah Jessica Parker walks into a bar and the bartender says, “Why the long face?”
what kind of website is this? cause this mornings Jay Leno post was almost violent. Getting mixed signals.
She is a good candidate for having something to do with that’s why she looks like a witch?
Her family tree is a good candidate for having something do with that.
candidare “to make bright.”
candidatus “a person aspiring to office.”
Ergo…
Eureka!
(Her P.R. people must hate Monday thru Sunday)
If it turned out she was blacker than Charles Barkley, that would be a show.
You know, I was going to defend SJP and this show until she said “a young man with so much old information.” That just made me want to tell her to shut the hell up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbR7axof1wk clearly he was talking about her ancestry
NBC is quickly becoming a higher end MTV, parlaying celebrities social status into awful television, only the celebrities they are using don’t necessarily need to be put in quotations, and these aren’t rehab and weight loss shows, so they come across as less trashy. You’re not fooling me though, NBC.
Hm. But as soon as the network asks actors to serve as celebrity personalities rather than as actual actors, they are sort of putting them in quotation marks. “Gosh, this marriage seems troubled! Let’s ask ‘Alec Baldwin’ what to do!’” NBC at this point is in a flopsweat nightmare, running a 5-day-a-week Cavalcade of Stars, or Hollywood Squares. “I’ll take ‘Kelly Ripa’ for the block, Tom!”
Does NBC just have a different team of executives for Thursday night programming? They must. It’s impossible for me to wrap my brain around the fact that the same network that continues to force Jay Leno on me in addition to all of the other horrible things that they’ve done, also brings me 30Rock and Parks & Recreation. How is that possible?
It would be a lot more interesting to see normal people investigating their family history, no?
I mean, at least then they could choose the episode content based on the most amazing stories they find (“my ancestor was a slave trader — I must apologize to the descendants of his slaves,” etc), rather than choosing episode content because someone is a C.E.L.E.B. (“my ancestor lived in Ireland. hm.”) Even the title is insulting “Who do you think you are?” like it’s some kind of Current.tv crowd-sourced programming. No, David Blaine. This is more Celebrity worship dressed up as melodrama.
mte, since the Olympics were shoving this idiotic show down our throats. Brags time: I’m a something-th cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte! And a descendent of some Scottish Earl who was cursed by a witch, but in Scotland. That branch of the family eventually went all Calvinist and Mayflowered over to America. WHERE IS MY TELEVISION SPECIAL?
I’m distantly related to the guy they used as the basis for Captain Morgan (Sir Henry Morgan). So I can actually say, “i have a little Captain in me” (and by that, I mean I have the predisposed genes to be an ALCOHOLIC). Woohoo for history! (am i doing this rite???)
I love pirate history and Morgan’s pirate coast is my favorite niche of history.
/nerd.
I thought this show actually sounded kind of interesting when I read this article.. Maybe SJP’s is boring, but Lisa Kudrow seemed to have an interesting experience.
I thought it was interesting, too. Now that I’ve read that article, though, i no longer have to watch the show!
NBC will find a way to ruin it. (i.e. having SJP be the inaugural guest).
Also, BOOOOO! I still hate NBC, ok?
Shouldn’t the show be called, “Who do you think they are?” Or is the show only meant to be viewed by celebrities?
There was a lot of internal debate about what to call this show, according to last week’s issue of Them Weekly.
I do genealogy on a fairly regular basis, and even I’m not going to watch this show. Why do I care that you’re related to Louis XV or someone in the Salem Witch Trials? I don’t. Genealogy is a personal thing, and generally people only care about their own lineage. Sure, this will probably get regular folks to try out Ancestry.com (disclaimer: this is largely the site I use), which is probably what that site is banking on, but I can’t see it being all that entertaining.
This is so true. I’m an amateur genealogist as well, but I still find other people’s histories painfully boring. Yet I still annoy friends/neighbors/strangers with stories of my own family. (Did you know one of my ancestors was in the Roughriders with Teddy Roosevelt? Now you do!)
The producers of Hocus Pocus should be applauded for their attempts at historical accuracy. Awaiting the witch-ancestry results for Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy.
SERIOUSLY IT TOOK this long FOR A fuckin HOCUS Pocus JOKE? Verbatim YOU ARE officially AN AMERICAN hero MY friend.
With capital letters comes capital responsibility.
Did you know that your ancestors may have been near to or alive during an important historical event? Fact: My great-grandparents left Russia in the early 1900′s, did they meet Lenin? Possibly.
Is this what shows on NBC have become? Barely relevant celebrities sitting in a fake library (that probably previously served as a set for an episode of Law & Order) surfing Ancestry.com and reading the results out loud to a camera?
Sorry NBC, not even Matthew Broderick would find this interesting, and he pretends to be interested in SJP for a living.
CELEBRITIES!!1!!
This show is a candidate to have something to do with me learning witchcraft and casting spells on whoever was involved in making it. BAD SPELLS.
So it’s cool and all if people are interested in where they’re from and what their ancestry is and all that, but I don’t think most people really appreciate the numbers involved. Assuming that, on average, generations are 25 years – a reasonable number when you carry this back far enough – and accounting for the fact that you double your number of ancstors every generation, going back to the time of the Salem witch trials, Sarah Jessica Parker (being over 40 years old) had about 4,000 ancestors around. Go back 100 years more and you’re at 32,000. Go back 500 years and you’re at a million. What I’m getting at is that people track these things back and find one individual and think “wow, that tells me so much about who I am….it changes everything”. Nah, it doesn’t. You’re looking at one individual of very, very many who contributed to who you are. Go back more than a few generations and it doesn’t matter all that much, really.
your ancestors worshiped satan SJP? ooo you so edgey!!
Witches do not inherently worship satan, fyi.
WE PREFER TO BE CALLED WICCANS. Silly mortal.
…tricks are for kids?
Most modern “satanic” people don’t even worship satan. Poor satan… like NBC he just wants some (positive) attention.
I am on the last couple pages of “The Mists of Avalon” right now (great book btw!) and I wanted to respond to this similarly, but you beat me to it.
I actually do find genealogy kind of interesting. I have very information about my own family history, so I can understand a viewer’s curiosity. Add to that curiosity the FACT that celebrities are more interesting and better than my family, and I should be very entertained by this- “a young man with such old information?” What?
…I have very little information about my own family history…
Eh, it’s somewhat interesting, but not really any more so than any other hobby, IMO, like building model trains or what have you. At best it’s cocktail party fodder.
There is also a long record of genealogy obsessiveness intermingling with some very ugly and reactionary ideas. Especially in the US, where being able to trace your lineage back more than a couple generations is a de facto assertion of white privilege.
On a long enough timeline, everyone’s life expectancy drops to zero.
Argh, I attempted to reply to Lew Zealand. But I hit submit comment and the site refresh and signed me out. Then I forgot to hit reply. I am sleepy.
“A young man with so much old information.”
Books, SJP. That old information is called books.
It sounds as if she is rehearsing getting an award or something. “This is so exciting! Thank you so much for the honor of looking something up I never cared about to look up myself before!” -SJP
An old TV network with such horrible new programming…
Hmmm, I always assumed Sarah Jessica Parker was related to the Parker Brothers, you know, the people that make boardgames? Huh, huh? Okay, I know that was a lame joke, and I’m Sorry! I took the Risk! of sounding lame, but I haven’t a Clue! what else to say… Monopoly!
Just announced: Aaaaron’s comment is soon to be a major motion picture.
You really saved that comment quite nicely.
My last name is Parker. Maybe I’m related to them! Or SJP! (The horror!)
Did someone already make a “She turned me into a newt!” joke? Did I miss it?
They need to say fuck it and just genetically test all the employees of NBC and run the results (Henry Louis Gates Documentary Style) in the 1130(est) slot.
11:35, excuse me.
(10:35 cst)
I guess knowing SJP’s ancestors is slightly better than finding out Jerry Seinfeld’s?
Jerry Seinfeld’s ancestors are all marriage counselors and publishing moguls. (timely zing!)
Family Guy just called, it wants its jokes about Sarah Jessica Parker’s appearance back (part of the Tired Joke for Tired Jokes Recycling Program – TJTJRP).
Not sure whether to upvote or downvote. It’s resting on your motivation for using the “somebody called” line.
Probably should’ve read the parentheses. UPVOTE IT IS!
Thank you Yeah Cander! Whatever picture your avatar is of, I like it!
Didn’t you hear Jerry seinfield’s wife came up with this concept, which she copied from PBS….http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/
Did anyone make a Hocus Pocus joke yet?
CTRL + F
Then TYPE: HOCUS Pocus
Not that I watched that video (because NBC is racist to people outside of ‘merica) but Who Do You think You Are? is a BBC show and I don’t like to hear the good name of that institution sullied. Its also a very good and interesting show but thats not the important thing. The important is that this will make money for the BBC and in turn save BBC 6music.
Is the BBC version with celebrities too? Just curious. We Americans tend to butcher things by making them “bigger” and “better.”
Celebrities might be too strong of a word, a lot of the time its just that guy off that thing. Television personalities they’re called, what the fuck happened to just calling them television personalities?
I ask, NAY demand, that Gabe reconsider the embargo on Horseface parker jokes.
Genealogy is pretty cool. My ancestors were involved with the slave trade and also some were abolitionists. A couple of my ancestors actually owned the land that wall street is built on, but the government took it away. They sued to get it back, but the government said, “eat a dick”. And so they did.
That is genealogy in a nutshell.