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Let us consider: 'Friends', one of the unfunniest, blandest "comedies", and I use that term loosely here, ever to grace the small screen, is a huge hit. 'Night Stand Starring Dick Dietrick' is hands down the funniest show in the history of television and barely lasted a season. In fact, this show (a satire of Jerry Springer/ Ricki Lake sleaz-oid talk shows) was so dead-on perfect, middle america probably thought it WAS a sleaz-oid talk show and the jokes sailed right on over their heads. Watching this show with my dad, is the only time I can remember the two of us laughing out loud together until South Park came along. I'm telling you, this show was so funny I almost died suffocating myself laughing so hard.

I loved "Night Stand with Dick Dietrich".

From the cheesy-yet-sincere plaintiffs to the despicable-yet-lovable defendants, it's a remarkable insight into this slice of media mayhem.

And if ever there was a more jovially-sleazy host, I have yet to see them.

It's really the sincerity and the ability to pick out the most interesting and amusing elements of the genre that tickles me.

I really DO believe that Dick wants to know about whether an audience member has been involved with one of the guests.

I've been looking for an archive of the show? Has anyone found one, or made one? I'm very interested in finding one.

Please tell me how I can persuade the copyright owner to distribute a DVD compilation. I'd love to see it again.

Thanks.

In today's climate of politically correct and inoffensive characters, and shows where they are 'advertised' as cutting edge or controversial one show dared to defy all of that, and make fun of society and television. Night Stand with Dick Dietrich was one of the funniest shows of the mid nineties, I loved this show. Timothy Stack, who played Dick Dietrich played the role to the hilt. He was the reason this show was so good, his silly demeanor, off the cuff comments and all around knack for putting the sleaziest of guests into exploitive situations had me rolling on the floor routinely in this show.

This show was brilliant, the plot was simple, a satire of talk shows most notably the king of white trash Jerry Springer, who Dietrich always proclaimed as his rival. This show is the cream of the crop as comedies go, when you thought the show couldn't get any funnier it would. The show went all over the place, talking about all kinds of crazy events and nutty people on the show, it was one of the truly unpredictable shows of it's time. Part of the charm of the show were all of the occasional guest stars, like hypnotist the Astounding Andy, plastic surgeon Dr. Hamilton George, but the best guest of all was warped psychiatrist Dr. Lonnie Lanier, whose quiet demeanor and naive grin were just too much to handle sometime.

I wish there were more shows like this today, unfortunately with all of the networks owned by the same group of corporations it's kind of hard for a show that so easily makes fun of itself. And that's exactly what this show did, it made fun of modern day TV in all of it's glory, or lack thereof. This show made fun of the Friends demographic, the young rich age group that television has increasingly been catering to. (Dick Dietrich once told a guest who said there was no white entertainment television "Oh really? I thought that was NBC) And the show talked about serious issues but of course made nothing but fun of them too. There were episodes about racism, homosexuality, faulty corporations, you name it they had it.

In the second season the show became more of having a girl in a tight dress come out in the first minute, but then again so did television, and it was always a different girl with a different problem, and would generally turn out to be a nut job. Overall this show is a forgotten treasure that could still be on today. I am sad that TV has so little ability to make fun of itself as this show did. In an era when entertainment takes itself so seriously it is rare television makes fun of itself like this, and although the show as only on for two season they were two priceless seasons, I loved this show, I wish it was still on, and maybe sometime in the near future there will be a show like it, but I doubt it.

As a complete spoof of the Jerry Springer show, Nightstand was hands down the funniest show around. Repeat guests such as The Amazing Andy, Bob the Sexaholic, Dr. Lonnie Lanier, various audience members, 2Pac Zemekis, and others have VERY unique personalities and some use hilarious catch phrases they use when they greet Dick Dietrick. The show is filled with hidden jokes, inside jokes, and things you must think about before you find it funny. When Dick takes a look at the audience and says, "No no no, people", that is a good clue there was a joke just then. Creative real life names are used like Porkhead and Weiner on MVT (Music Video Television). Timothy Stack is funny just to watch and he plays a PERFECT talk show host. Sadly, the show had about 2 years on Fox I believe and now is using reruns on E! As Dick Dietrick would say, "For now, I'm Dick Dietrick".

I never would have heard of "Night Stand" except for my ex-fiancé who was already a fan when we moved in together. We taped all of the episodes, replayed them and memorized entire sketches. There weren't many shows, but you guessed it, he took all the tapes. :sigh:

It was years before I could keep a straight face while snapping my fingers and saying bewilderedly, "oh people, no no." I used to wait for the chance to say that in staff meetings or anywhere a double entendre needed a quick response.

If "Night Stand" and "Sports Monster" (with Nick Bakay and Joe Bolster) are ever released on DVD, I will die happy.

This show is too funny. It's a shame they didn't make any more episodes of it, because it was hands down the very best talk show ever. Whenever Dick would make fun of a character by accident and say "no people, no" was just classic. And guest appearances by Jerry Springer were pure gold.

Timothy Stack is maybe not so known for you people out there, but I must say that this man is one of the best comedians around the world.

He helps out to write on his own shows etc. and he plays his roles so good. The stupid, stupid guy who get's it right in the end anyway.

In Nightstand he played the Host Dick Dietrick and this is by far the best talkshow I've ever seen. NihtStand was a pure parody of most talkshows out there.. Springer show, Ricky Lake etc.

(In one show, can't remember the name of it though, there is this woman who starts to cry and Dick turns into the camera and says: They like this on Ricky you know)

Sadly NightStand is no more.. I recorded mostly every shows there was of it.. but I would like to see it released on DVD or something or maybe Timothy Stack will return in his amasing form as Dick Dietrick

This is a 10/10 show

Talk shows have always taken themselves way too seriously - and that meant they were ripe for being parodied. It's a shame that this show didn't last much longer - it was incredibly funny. Where else could you see Florence Henderson spanking a grown man? Dick always had hot babes and tons of sexual innuendos on his show. Among the best quotes, I think (they're not exact,) are the following:

(Scene: Dick convinces a woman to go out with him, only to find out it's a transvestite. I think this in the episode "Getting Even.") Dick [exasperated]: You couldn't have done this alone... you had to have had help on it... who could be so mean, who could be so evil as to inflict this on me? Voice (From off screen): That would be me. Dick [angered]: Springer!!!

(Scene: A woman in a tight leotard has just been shaking her stuff, showing us how to defend ourselves in and work out at the same time.) Woman: Why don't you try it, Dick? Dick: No... I'm a little stiff here. (Audience laughs.) Dick: Oh, People... don't make this harder than it is.

(Scene: I believe this is in the episode "Dick's High School Reunion.") Woman: I went out with the biggest loser to get back at my ex-boyfriend. (the loser, is of course, Dick.) Dick: Well, when we come back we'll find out who that loser was...

I loved this show. I found it when it ran on E TV. It made fun of all the stupid "confrontational talk" shows that stations around the country were running at all hours of the day. No topic was out of bounds. They made fun of the whole talk show industry, sex, white trash people, rappers, Baywatch, religion. Everything and anything. Tim Stack was incredible as Dick Dietrick. The legendary Rodney Dangerfield even made appearances on this show.

How do we get this show on DVD? Every TV show ever run on TV seems to have a DVD set except this one. If I would have known that it would end too soon and never be available again, I would have recorded it every night.

To think it's been over 10 years since the last new episode aired. I can't even find it on TV anymore. I really wished I taped these episodes.

This show was the reason I ended up being late for school every Monday morning. The show would air at 1 a.m. on Sunday night and I was in high school. I even had tickets to be in the studio audience for an episode but since I was only 16 at the time those pricks at Big Ticket Television wouldn't let me attend (you had to be 17 to be in the audience).

If anyone in the DVD home video distribution industry reads this, PLEASE RELEASE ALL THE EPISODES OF BOTH SEASONS!!!!!!

This was on E! when it was actually entertaining, making fun of all those stupid talk shows and doing it well. Tim Stack is a genius.

The 90's brought us a lot of good things and it also brought shows like "Jerry Springer" which is what "Night Stand" is all about making fun of. Whereas "Jerry Springer" was partially scripted and it was all a set-up, "Night Stand" was nothing but a scripted sit com done in the style of trash TV.

Every week the host, Dick Dietrick, or "Dickie" as he was known, would have some characters on the stage to reveal some shocking aspect of their lives to a friend, relative or co-worker, then there would be a surprise guest, a fight might break out and Dickie would give his closing statements on the whole thing.

But it was played straight and that was the genius of it. Dickie would say something innocent to the crowd that could be taken in a different way only to go, "noooo... not like that" when the hooting and hollering would start. Or he'd say when the surprise guest showed up, "oh! I hope there's not going to be a fight, " which invariably there always was.

It was a show that made fun of trash TV and what the TV landscape had become. Too bad it only lasted two seasons and this was before the Jerry Springer show actually came clean and admitted their show was a setup. I would have loved to see Dickie react to that.

I'm just recently tuned into this show again, via Youtube, and boy, what a fu..in funny show, this one was. I remember my dad loving it too. A slightly bucktoothed and quick witted and talk show host, Dick Dietrich (the names fictional) has warring parties (budding unknown actors) come onto the show and sort of fight it out, while our Dickie boy, cuts in, or bounces off their dialogue with mostly snappy and cutting remarks, that provoke laughter, not just from the audience, but us attentive viewers. Dietrich is played by the guy, you might remember, delivering the baby, Harry Dunne, in that cheesy prequel to the Dumb And Dumber movie, and he's in top form here. You can't help loving the guy, in spite of his, at times, disdainful or heartless remarks. The actors deserve full credit too, holding their own, against our man with the microphone. Whatever their role, they're funny and top form, too. Some larger than life, and sometimes, outlandish (unreal) topics are brought up, but there's never a shortage of laughs. Night Stand is one of those top of the line comedy shows, where laughs just keep coming, perpetually, and they're the comedies I love. Catch this show on Youtube, it's a must. If snubbing it, you're missing out on hours of comedy relief my friend, but comedy lovers you are, this one is of course, again, is not for all tastes.

Strange enough, this edgy show came around the same time when there was a move to clean up "trash television," which lead a few talk shows getting canceled. "Night Stand" was a comedy mocking scandalous talk shows of the day: Charles Perez, Geraldo, Jerry Springer, Richard Bey, Rikki Lake, and the like. Timothy Stack's alter ego Dick Dietrick is a likable jerk who embraces sleaziness.

Originally airing in first-run syndication, "Night Stand" never lasted long. It did get a slot on on the cable channel E!, which is also known for its edginess. But then it disappeared from television permanently......

One of my favorite shows was one that featured "Uncle Tome Make-Overs." The show featured a very concerned African-America father whose son was betraying his "people" because he chose to wear Dockers and Izod shirts instead of a dashiki and other African related clothing. An exchange between the the host, Dick Deitrich, and the father goes as follows: Dick: "Sir, how has your son's disregard for his African heritage manifested itself in his everyday life?" Father: "The other day, my son and I went to see a monster movie and he didn't scream or yell at the characters in the movie one time!" Another funny show was "Homeless People Make-Overs" featuring homeless people getting new hairstyles and trendy clothes. Dick would introduce the homeless man pushing a shopping cart onto the stage of the show. The man's hair and clothes would be matted with dirt, as well as sporting a very long and dirty beard. They'd whisk the guy away and later bring a completely different guy onto the stage looking very GQ and ready to walk down a fashion show runway.

Really clever stuff.