I've just stopped on it while surfing, and I admit it's kind of a car-crash curiosity factor at this point. Just to see if it's cringe-inducing. I think he's a bust as an on-camera person, but whatever. He's getting paid. So he can suck, get cancelled and still win.
It makes me wonder though, what if he (or someone else) followed suit with Simmons' own original appeal -- the outsider, the fan? I think that's part of what's so awkward and grating, that he's trying to act all cool with his guests.
I'd rather watch a show (picture something halfway to Chris Farley's "That was awesome..." skit) where a fan acknowledges he's a nobody, in a likable and mildly self-effacing way, and then asks all the questions a fan would want to know. I guess Simmons stumbles on this occasionally when the guests riff on their own, like Hader. But whoever said earlier that Simmons asks no follow ups basically nailed it. At the very least, when Ricky Williams said he smoked up on Willie Nelson's bus, there's gotta be at least 3 or 4 easy follow-up questions there, like how much weed did Willie have on him, what did they smoke out of, did Willie break out the guitar, did they talk at all about football? Even Rogen turned to Ricky and said, "Was he awesome?" and Ricky said yes. And then Simmons club-foots on to his next question without exploring anything funny.
Yeah, this is nitpicky. Show sucks, I guess. Why bother. But there's definitely a good opportunity here on non-network to interview celebs and get them rambling about weird people they've worked with, shit they've done to paparazzi, if their childhood friends try to get back in touch and come over their Hollywood Hills pad. Whatever.