LAST EDITED ON 07-13-04 AT 01:34 AM (EST)

The Andy may have a winner here. I caught the first episode tonight and it was pretty good.

http://www.mtv.com/onair/dyn/assistant/series.jhtml

So far I'm rooting for Stefani, she/he seems perfect for The Andy if you ask me.

SMILES ARE FREE

I can't believe that he kicked off two people so fast. But If I saw Andy #####, I wouldn't have been acting so uppity like he was some extra in a movie or something.

Go Mykell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a grown a$$ kid"---Kayne West "Through the Fire"

well i was right!! this show was hilarious...

i think in real life he is most definitely a perv...but i don't care...he is a charming perv.>>>LOL

i love the sleeping in the garage and the reason why!!!
and i love the game show who wants to be "andy di*k's" assistant? too funny...there is an episode on tonight but not sure if last nights rerun...taping anyways...

molly

http://www.mtv.com/onair/dyn/assistant/personality.jhtml?personalityId=504

Colin
Age: 19
From: The love shack
Louisiana
Sign: No shoes, no shirt…
Mood: Sexy

Stefani
Age: 22
From: The love shack
California
Sign: Slippery when wet
Mood: Saucy

Ebony
Age: 22
From: A hole in the wall
nowhere
Sign: Aquarius
Mood: Groovy

Tanika
From: My home
Illinois
Sign: Aries
Mood: Playful

Mykell
Age: 20
From: My crib
California
Sign: Virgo
Mood: Kickin' it

Anna
Age: 21
From: An undisclosed location
Georgia
Sign: Sagittarius
Mood: Happy

Nikeda (second boot)
Age: 20
From: The 'hood
Pennsylvania
Sign: Aquarius
Mood: Spaced out

Mark
Age: 23
From: My mansion
California
Sign: Cancer

Andrew (first boot)
Age: 18
From: My Mom's basement
Sign: Scorpio

Melissa
Age: 21
From: An undisclosed location
Georgia
Sign: Aries
Mood: Playful

Jeff
Age: 24
From: A padded room
California
Sign: Aries
Mood: Kickin' it

Sarah
Age: 22
From: An undisclosed location
California
Sign: Gemini
Mood: Flirty

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/arts/television/12HEFF.html

Like Andy Dick himself, "The Assistant" is by turns annoying, miserable and tolerable. It's not good, though.

Advertised as a parody of reality television, "The Assistant," which begins its eight-episode run tonight on MTV, is pleased nearly to delirium by the concept. This is hard to understand.

Sure, the network has persuaded a group of opportunists to audition to work for Mr. Dick, the dimpled prig from "News Radio." Mr. Dick hazes the applicants, and finally chooses a winner. But where's the gag? This is just what Donald Trump did on "The Apprentice." And "The Assistant" contains far less subterfuge than grueling bluffs like "Joe Schmo," "Average Joe," "Joe Millionaire," "My Big, Fat, Obnoxious Fiancé," "The Ali G Show" and "For Love or Money."

What is meant to distinguish "The Assistant," apparently, is Mr. Dick's irritating persona, which throughout history has been funny sometimes. Sampling from Carson Kressley, David Spade and Martin Short's Jiminy Glick, Mr. Dick plays himself as a swishy petty tyrant, a Hollywood knob whose showpiece house recalls the mansion of Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson as well as the chateaus of the Loire Valley. On tonight's episode Mr. Dick tells a contestant: "You rubbed me the wrong way, but I rub people the wrong way. Look where it got me."

None of the 12 contestants seem particularly ingenuous. Most in their early 20's, they take the reality format in stride. (They were children when MTV's "Real World" first came out.) Each is introduced as an aspiring Hollywood something or other: publicist, producer, agent. Some of them appear to be on the show as a joke; others claim to want to win. (A wardrobe, car and job are the stated prizes.) When Mr. Dick shows them the army cots in his garage that will serve as their beds, they're good sports. In individual interviews — when contestants "confessionalize," as some reality fans call it — the aspiring assistants express passing perplexity about the show's lack of regulations, but they're not angry.

Well, I'm still not a Mr. Dick fan, but I did enjoy The Andy.

This show will be intresting. I caught a bit of it, Andy is one unique person so Im sure he will make the show intresting.

I love this show, and my reality junkie co workers do, too. It's hilarious!

I remember reading an article dealing with all of Andy's issues--at the time he was married, yet promiscuously bi, and having substance problems, etc. I didn't like his personality.

But he's just so friggin' funny. The Andy D!ck show was a gut buster--ever see Daphne Aguilera? Or his "Scared Straight" parody?

"Teach my cat to sit on your shoulder" etc. LOVE IT!!

Rats, I missed an episode, why didn't someone remind me to watch it!

ummmm... cuz andy d!ck is a tool?

~ cq

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