The Bonnie Hunt Show

Best Chicago Show

The Bonnie Hunt Show

Forget the offensive "Pursuit of Happiness," the tired "Home Court" and Danny Bonaduce's afternoon gabfest. Last year, we were spoiled by our city's high profile on two great dramas, "Chicago Hope" and "ER," but this season we have only CBS' "The Bonnie Hunt Show" to look forward to. We were enthralled by Hunt's earthy, witty, glowing Second City performances in the mid-eighties. Then she lit up the big screen with bit parts in decent movies such as "Rain Man" (as the flustered, toothpick-dropping waitress) and "Dave" (in which her no-nonsense White House tour guide punctuated every sentence with the phrase, "We're walking, we're walking..."), as well as pleasant turns in both "Beethoven" dogs.
Now, after the failure of her first David Letterman-produced sitcom, "The Building," and the quick demise of both "Grand" and "Davis Rules," Hunt is back in the box as a TV reporter, mixing an improv interview segment into each episode. Hunt unearthed several comedic gems last week--peppering young gradeschoolers with questions such as, "Got any smokes?"; accidentally pushing several buttons on the elevator and then telling an entering passenger "some drunk guy" did it; and engaging in several entertaining, Bob Newhart-like phone conversations with her mother--but, in order to succeed, "The Bonnie Hunt Show" will have to get over that old Second City disease known as trying too hard to please.
Friday, 7:30-8pm, Channel 2 (CBS)

 

 
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