Manswers | |
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Genre | Documentary Comedy |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 39 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Adam Cohen Cara Tapper Joanna Vernetti Akifumi Takuma Michael Schelp |
Running time | approx. 20 minutes |
Production companies | Fujisankei Communications International Super Delicious |
Original release | |
Network | Spike |
Release | September 19, 2007 – February 3, 2011 |
Manswers (spelt onscreen as MANswers: Faster & Harder in season three, and MANswers: Shock & Awe in season four) is an American late night comedy series that premiered on Spike on September 19, 2007.
The series is produced by reality television production company, SuperDelicious, and aired on Spike. The executive producers are Adam Cohen, Cara Tapper, Joanna Vernetti, Akifumi Takuma, and Michael Schelp. It garnered an average of 1.1 million viewers during its first year among a specific target audience. [1]
The first season consisted of 9 half-hour episodes. The second season showed 13 episodes of similar material.
MANswers, a portmanteau of man + answers, is a satire aimed at predominantly male audiences, primarily aged 18–40. Questions of a comical nature are asked and answered which usually relate to women and dating tips, sex-related questions and trivia, defense mechanisms in harmful situations, and firearms. Specialists with Masters and PhD degrees are brought in and give information.
MANswers has a magazine style format which discusses hypothetical questions believed to be the type men discuss. It has a narrator who talks about the topics, usually over a reenactment, with footage of women dancing, beer being poured, or nun-chucks. The narrator shouts MANSWERS and an explosion happens. [2] [3] [4]
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