PASADENA, Calif. - Daniel Tosh can't believe what's on television these days. And just to be clear, he's talking about his own show.
"I'm shocked they let any of this on TV," said Tosh, the host of Tosh.0, a television series that features Tosh making fun of Internet clips.
"I'm not a misogynist, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. I've done standup solidly for 15 years and I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit."
TV audiences obviously have responded, as the third season of the increasingly popular Tosh.0 debuts Tuesday on the Comedy Network.
Tosh.0 digs up both viral and obscure Internet videos and plays them for their obvious comedic value. But regularly the "stars" of those videos are tracked down and offered a chance at "web redemption."
"It's me and, I guess, six of my friends (in the writers' room), but we have researchers who track down tons of videos (several hundred per week), and we sift through them pretty quickly," Tosh said.
"We watch them, and if it works for us, if it's short, quick, funny, then we start writing jokes about it. Then we go to Starbucks to bounce most of the ideas off patrons."
Tosh was kidding about that last part. We think.
"The real process is getting it past Comedy Central (the network on which Tosh.0 originates in the United States)," Tosh added. "Once they've signed off on our horrible, offensive material, we're good to go.
"Lord knows what they're going to be offended by in the script. It's never what we think it's going to be. Then we just try to make it a lot worse and send it back to them, and they're like, 'OK, well, that's better.' "
One might think securing the content for Tosh.0 would be a legal nightmare, given the different circumstances by which a video can appear online. Some people are thrilled when contacted by the Tosh.0 team, others less so.
"It depends on the video, because some of these people, they've put a video online, but with others it was a moment in time that was just captured, and they had no idea it was up there," Tosh said.
"The Star Wars kid (arguably the No. 1 viral video of all time) is a perfect example of somebody who would not come on our show. But that doesn't mean that as long as we're on the air, every season we won't reach out and say, 'Hey, are you ready to make fun of yourself yet?'"
Tosh balked when asked if he might follow in the footsteps of, say, Joel McHale, host of a similarly themed show called The Soup, which airs on E!. McHale now plays Jeff Winger on the sitcom Community, which airs on NBC and Citytv.
"I'm not a good actor," Tosh said. "I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's about my range.
"I don't know if you saw my performance in (the Mike Myers movie) The Love Guru, but I was Cowboy Hat, and I don't think there's going to be a sequel to that pile of s---."
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