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The Simpson family is invited to a charity comedy show, but Bart notices that Krusty the Klown isn't being featured. He goes to the show early to talk to Jay Leno, and two are able to convince Krusty to go as it'll work towards his community service. However, Krusty's material turns out to be pretty dated, making jokes about TV dinners and the Chinese, and even resorting to the flying dickey trick, and nobody finds the material funny. After confirming as much in a review, Krusty decides to go on a massive bender, winding up passed out in the Flanders' yard.
Bart finds Krusty, and helps him get it together. Krusty winds up in Bart's room, and upon seeing all of the crap with his face on it, he realizes that he's spend so much time selling out that he's never bothered to keep his material fresh. Jay Leno is brought over to help, and he advises Krusty that people nowadays (or least in the late 90s) like situational comedy, jokes about stuff that occurs in everyday life. Krusty tries to adopt a new routine based around that, but his attempts to get the Simpson family laughing fail miserably. As such, Krusty decides to retire in a press conference. During his, he goes on a tirade about how crappy modern comedy is. It makes the reporters laugh, and Krusty realizes he makes a good insult comic, and returns to show business.
The 'new' Krusty does shows at Moe's and spends his time not just insulting things, but also making it a point to make fun of advertising shills. Two such shills watch these shows, and despite what Krusty's been saying tries to have him promote their new SUV, the Canyonero, giving him a Canyonero for free. Krusty seemingly turns down the offer, having become a changed clown. However, in his next show, Krusty reveals that he eventually gave the truck a run and eventually agreed to endorse it. This angers the crowd, and they throw bottles at Krusty before parting. As Bart wonders why Krusty gave in again, Krusty learns that in his heart, he's more of a sell out than he ever was a comedian. Krusty gives Bart a ride home in the Canyonero, which has an extended advertisement to conclude the episode despite how unsafe it actually is.
Quick Review
This was another fine episode though there was nothing really spectacular about it except the Canyonero ad at the end. Jay Leno's appearance was well done, I felt, but the other comedians seemed thrown in and the episode would've been no different without them. Otherwise, there were still plenty of jokes to carry the episode to the score it got.
Final Score: 8.6
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