Jaime Bergman is breakout star.

SanDiego

It seems like TV shows spoofing other popular shows usually pop up during the last year of the popular show's run.  In the seventies `The Betty White Show' spoofed `Police Woman' and in the eighties `Sledge Hammer' spoofed `Hunter,' both during the years the `butt of the joke' got axed.  One would guess that the original shows were cancelled because they became less popular with the public.  This same lack of popularity might explain why the spoofs were cancelled as well.  For the spoof to work, the subject matter has to be currently popular.  Check out the spoofs on shows like `Saturday Night Live,' they draw from the previous week's events, at least the best ones do.  Now we have `Son of a Beach,' an equally well spoofed take on `Baywatch,' which has already risen to self-parody itself.  A `Baywatch' spoof needed to be on the air a few years ago, before "Xena" and it's clones.  `Baywatch' is so old it's not even fun to laugh at anymore. Co-creator Timothy Stack plays an anti-David Hasslehoff, a beach weakling in charge of lifeguards that could have easily been selected for `Baywatch' duty.  My favorite is current (and best ever) St. Pauli Girl model Jaime Bergman as B.J. Cummings.  Like the `Baywatch' actresses she spoofs, Bergman is knock dead gorgeous and a former Playboy centerfold (1999).  She may be a stunner, but also very good at comedy.  The first episode made me her instant fan and I suspect there will be a `Jaime Bergman Show' somewhere in the future.  The jokes are stupid funny in a Mel Brooks way, as opposed to a Jim Carey way.  This show was written and produced by men who grew up with `Get Smart' and `Blazing Saddles,' as opposed to the new Hollywood writers that tend to have their pulse on the younger market.  But in the show's defense, the actors are funny and many are attractive and there is Jaime Bergman, a future superstar getting her first big acting gig.  My suggestion is to tune in, have a laugh or two, and enjoy it while it lasts.  Perhaps while sucking on a six pack of St. Pauli Girl.

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SanDiego 21 March 2000

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