"the washington star" said the show "strained and groaned" while the humor was "almost completely lost, despite desperate attempts to wring it out of raunch." "newsday"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s marvin kitman, as expected, ravaged the show gleefully, calling it "offensive and raunchy," and worse, not funny. "this new edition is terrible," he wrote. "call it 'saturday night dead on arrival'."