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Testees
SERIES: FX, Thursday 10:30p (30 minutes)


6.8

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Starring Jeff Kassel, and Steve Markle

Two friends experience odd side effects from the different products they test.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
CREATED BY:	Kenny Hotz Derek Harvie
FIRST AIR DATE:	October 9, 2008

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Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd

There are people in this world who find flatulence mightily entertaining, and they should be happy here.

Washington Post Tom Shales

The two-zany formula still works for movie after movie, and the occasional TV show. Case in point: Tonight's Testees, airing on the risk-happy FX network; the comedy doesn't push boundaries so much as trounce and trash them.

Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall

I don't know that there's a long-running series here--even the pilot runs out of steam before the end--but I did laugh several times.

San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman

In FX's Testees, viewers get a good premise gone sophomorically sideways.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

The crass gags--some of which I laughed at--ultimately overwhelm everything else. Better to dole out the tastelessness carefully, so that each crude zinger has some value.

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

At least these comedies are upfront about what they are: Cheerfully raunchy shows that lean heavily on adolescent obsessions with bodily functions. If that’s your thing, you may enjoy the deadpan Testees.

The New York Times Ginia Bellafante

All of this might be vaguely defensible if “Testees” were trying to satirize the abuses of Big Pharma, or the limited opportunities for dumb white men, or really if it were trying to satirize anything at all. But it just sits there, inert, like a patient on a gurney.

Salon Heather Havrilesky

A show so strange and vile and stupid that I really wish I could strongly recommend it.

Miami Herald Glenn Garvin

Testees probably shouldn't be considered part of the fall season, but let's be fair--it's as lousy as anything the broadcast nets have come up with.

Newsday Verne Gay

It's horrible, horrible, horrible, and you will hate yourself for laughing--although I'm afraid you will.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

There's no need to go any further. Testees makes "Kath & Kim" look smart and savvy, a nearly impossible feat.

Variety Brian Lowry

Mostly, this is poor man's Farrelly brothers material, without the explosive wit or glee that would make the raunch irresistible, if not palatable to watch while eating.

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Testees SERIES: FX, Thursday 10:30p (30 minutes)

Testees
SERIES: FX, Thursday 10:30p (30 minutes)