Thursday, September 30, 1999
UPN's 'McNasty' lives down to name
BY JOHN KIESEWETTER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
It's never a good sign when networks and movie studios refuse to let critics see shows. UPN slips one past us today after the WWF Smackdown!
• Shasta McNasty (9:30 p.m., Channel 25, then moves to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday): UPN's new sitcom deserves a bad rap, since critics must judge the show from a five-minute clip screened 21/2 months ago.
Carmine Giovinazzo (King of Queens), Jake Busey (Gary's son; Enemy of the State) and Dale Godboldo (Jenny) star as struggling rappers living a life of leisure in Venice Beach, Calif.
UPN cuts a half-hour from its top-rated WWF show for the Shasta McNasty debut featuring 1998 Playboy Playmate of the Year Heather Kozar and Verne Troyer (Mini-Me from Austin Powers). It repeats at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, after another McNasty (8 p.m. Tuesday) with Cindy Margolis, a woman whose picture is the most downloaded on the Internet.
Bet you figured out that UPN is targeting teen-age boys with this Neal Moritz-produced sitcom (I Know What You Did Last Summer) directed by Dennis Dugan (Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy).
UPN calls Shasty McNasty “The Monkees meets the Beastie Boys.” From the July clip, I'd call it Vanilla Ice meets the “Roxbury Guys,” those Saturday Night Live losers who try to pick up women. Looks pretty McNasty to me.
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