The Show with Vinny review: He’s baaackkk!

Because I’m an old lady who can’t stay up until 11, I just finally watched the gem that is The Show with Vinnie this weekend.  And boy am I glad I finally did.  In the premiere Lil’ Wayne came over to hang with Vinnie and his family.  Vinnie explains Wayne to his mom as ‘his Tony Bennett.’ HAHAHA. I’ll leave the judgment of this line up to others, but I sure did laugh at it.  Wayne is glad to just be invited over because him and his homeys are all ‘convicts and sh**’ and people don’t typically want them in their house.  I call BS.  You’re famous.  Pretty much everyone under the age of 40 would want you in their house.  Vinnie tries to conduct a serious interview with Wayne and be a ‘real’ talk show host, but as soon as Uncle Vino walks in with his shirt wide open things start getting wild and it leads to a skate boarding session somewhere that was not at Vinnie’s house. I guess scenes will be shot at other locations where Vinnie’s mom is not present.  All those commercials sure were misleading.

Vinnie also hung out with Youtube star Jenny Marbles (if you haven’t watched her videos, I highly recommend them).  Of course he attempts to hit on her before they decide to Skype with everyone’s favorite Meatball, Snooki and give each other make overs (a theme in some of her most popular videos) to shoot their own web video together.  I’m surprised it only took one episode for Vinnie to bring in one of his former castmates, but I’m not complaining.  I love Snooki and all the other Jersey Shore kids. But I do NOT appreciate Vinnie talking bad about his sexy time with Snooki. I’ll ship Vinnookie for the rest of my life.  Those two belong together and they both just need to realize it. He shouldn’t be acting like he wasn’t totally into their hook up.

It’s nice to see Vinnie still doing his thing: being slightly awkward and making almost funny jokes while making tons of direct eye contact with the camera. I always liked him and his crazy family so I welcome them back on my TV.  I’ll definitely be DVR-ing this show so I can watch it each week.