Picks and Pans Review: Paul Rodriguez: I Need the Couch

By Jeff Jarvis

UPDATED 01/26/1987 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 01/26/1987 at 01:00 AM EST

HBO (Sat., Jan. 24, 9:30 p.m. ET)

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Paul Rodriguez, last seen on the mercifully short-lived sitcom a.k.a. Pablo, gets his own cable special and fills it with old jokes ("Madonna, like a virgin'...yeah, like I'm stupid"), with frequent grabs at his crotch and with a long, bad skit about how "getting a show on HBO is not easy." Yeah, well, HBO should have made it a lot tougher for this show to get on.