Nick Swardson's Pretend Time

Nick Swardson's Pretend Time

2010
Nick Swardson's Pretend Time
Nick Swardson's Pretend Time

Nick Swardson's Pretend Time

6.1 | TV-14 | en | Comedy

Nick Swardson's Pretend Time was a TV sketch comedy show created by and starring comedian and actor Nick Swardson. The show premiered on Tuesday, October 12, 2010, at 10 p.m. EST on Comedy Central and ran for two seasons, with the final first-run episode airing November 16, 2011.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP7  Legalize Meth
Nov. 16,2011
Legalize Meth

Nick discusses sketches that didn't make it; drunk girls cause problems at a fast food restaurant; a first time dad gets upset about visitors at a hospital's baby nursery.

EP6  Flying Stripper
Nov. 10,2011
Flying Stripper

Nick talks about Johnny Depp's amazing life. Sketches include a couple's disastrous date, a stripper getting magical powers, and a breakfast cereal character turning a holiday dinner into a nightmare.

EP5  The Mis-Education of Garry Gaga
Nov. 02,2011
The Mis-Education of Garry Gaga

Nick talks about sitting next to actress Liv Tyler during a first class flight. Sketches include a man receiving a unique face transplant, a distraught family, and Garry Gaga trying to warm up to the new police captain.

EP4  Full Blown Eggs
Oct. 26,2011
Full Blown Eggs

Sketches include a commercial for a restaurant where only certain customers get to eat free, a man consolidates both his businesses due to the recession, and Wheelchair Cat ends up in the hospital.

EP3  PETA Not on Set
Oct. 19,2011
PETA Not on Set

Nick talks about figure skating, smart phones & texting; A man must deal with the consequences of his dog’s extreme boredom; new product the “Handy Man 3000”; The parents of a nubile young woman insist that her suitor reveal everything he has to offer their daughter; Nick presents events in the “Partying Olympics”; Local Weatherman Storm Rains style clashes with that of his co-workers and a new kind of boxing heavy bag called the “Pump Punch”.

EP2  Show Me on the Doll
Oct. 12,2011
Show Me on the Doll

Nick tells a personal story about an accident with unusual consequences; the results of an extraterrestrial paternity test is revealed on talk show Clarencé; Reed O’ Frampton’s amazing cleaning product the ”Beep Beep Sweep”; a charity campaign to get Africans to help pathetic Americans; homemade coupons as a gift for new parents and trial lawyer Darren Jeremy uses his unique talents to maximum advantage both in the courtroom and the bedroom.

EP1  Baby Not From Booty
Oct. 05,2011
Baby Not From Booty

Nick talks about dive bars; 16 (months) & Pregnant parody, Wheel Chair Cat has to defends one of his nine lives in court; an infomercial for a new ab-workout device using natural male self motivation; playing out an old fantasy during a zombie apocalypse; high school student Dijon’s senior project video “Baby Not From Booty”; Nick talks about charity drive themes that might be more popular and how he’s not a morning person; a new product called “International Waters” and online gaming add-on “The Smack Transporter”.

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Released: 2010-10-12 | Released Producted By: Happy Madison Productions , Culver Entertainment Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/pretend_time/index.jhtml
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Nick Swardson's Pretend Time was a TV sketch comedy show created by and starring comedian and actor Nick Swardson. The show premiered on Tuesday, October 12, 2010, at 10 p.m. EST on Comedy Central and ran for two seasons, with the final first-run episode airing November 16, 2011.

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Nick Swardson , Natasha Leggero

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Reviews

triggermike187 This is a great show with some eccentric and original material that is in produced in a similar comedic scheme as seen with "The Whitest Kids You Know" series. It is not simple toilet humor as many of the ignorant like to refer to. If one can't see past the language or outlandish premises of some of his skits, you won't find this funny because you aren't able to understand it. The fact that someone mentioned needing a laughing track told me all I needed to know about their comedic intelligence and ability to grasp this show especially. Great show that needs support and should be on DVD by NOW!
Crazy_Gibberish Well, it's Happy Madison. And as much as their legion of fans would like to protest, their work was never headed for 10/10 territory. That being said, Pretend Time is better than it has any right to be mostly thanks to Swardson's innate charm. The vast majority of his sketches are lazy and one-note but there are a few gems like the painting with creepy eyes that goes blind and Swardson can often carry the weaker ones by virtue of being a big affable goof.It's extremely rough around the edges and could use a system of links ala Monty Python to give the show a more natural flow. His current "the last sketch airs on a TV screen in the background of the next sketch" device only adds to the suspicion he's half-assing it. All in all though I'm looking forward to seeing if Nick can step up his game in season 2. It definitely deserves a chance.
peed23 I can explain this show only with one word: "hilarious"! And i must know it, because i am a snotspoon by my self.You like British humor, dark British humor. You like kind of puke and fart jokes. You love jokes below waistline.This show makes you laugh so hard you pee in your pants. But don't take it serious.Sry for my poor English, i know it is not the yellow of the egg. It's also my first review because after the first crack in the first episode i rolled on the floor laughing out lout and i think this show is worth a positive review.A German old saw: "If you have to go to the basement for laughing" this show is nothing for you, believe me.
tomasetti I am one of those people that put on Comedy Central first every time I turn on my TV. I enjoy pretty much everything that's aired, with a few exceptions. This is one of them.The skits seem to be rough drafts for ideas that could be funny if properly written acted or directed, and that's being nice about it. Other skits seem to be rough drafts for ideas that could never be funny regardless. I do not consider myself above toilet humor, but this show seems to contain some sort of childish humor in every laugh.Skit shows are generally failures, Dave Chapelle had a really nice format with some sort of a standup performance, introducing us to the skits and giving us a backstory behind them sometimes either before or after. And the skits had a laugh track as a result, in the style of Saturday night live.The combination of no laugh track to tell us when to laugh, combined with the fact that it's really not that funny add up to an awkward viewing experience. As with anything else, it gets more awkward with more people watching.