Comedy Bang! Bang!: “Lil Jon”
(Episode 4.14) “Lil Jon Wears a Baseball Cap and Sunglasses”

This season of Comedy Bang! Bang! has been the first to get rappers on the couch and so far, the ratio of good vs. bad guests has been 50-50. Schoolboy Q set the bar incredibly low for what a guest can do, but on the other hand, Kid Cudi was so fantastic that he’ll be taking over as cohost once Reggie Watts leaves in a few weeks. With this week’s guest Lil Jon, it becomes very clear that Schoolboy Q was only a fluke—the more rappers, the better.
To be fair, Lil Jon himself feels like he could just be a strange Comedy Bang! Bang! character. I could easily imagine Paul F. Tompkins’ Ice-T meeting Nick Kroll as Lil Jon in the weird CBB universe. In “Lil Jon Wears a Baseball Cap and Sunglasses,” Lil Jon is not only a fantastically hilarious guest, but also makes up for a lackluster character guest as well.
As it has the last few weeks, Comedy Bang! Bang! wisely stuck with keeping a very loose gimmick for the episode, this time with The Quizzler (Tom Green) popping up occasionally to quiz Reggie and Scott. The episode starts off as a 60s Batman homage, but as Scott so eloquently states, he “doesn’t really give a shit about that.” I think that’s the key to an episode’s theme: don’t treat it too preciously, and only really worry about it if you have to. Or, simply put, don’t give too much of a shit about it.
Tom Green as The Quizzler is a fun play on The Riddler, except The Quizzler gives too many clues for his quizzles and the more we learn about him, the sadder his life is. By the end of the episode, we learn he’s little more than a guy who does his own non-sanctioned trivia night at the Sizzler for his grandfather and his friends.