Last Call for Zane Lamprey’s Three Sheets?

I knew things weren’t good when I first caught a glimpse of Zane Lam­prey in a Sub­way com­mer­cial. When I start­ed fol­low­ing Lam­prey on Face­book, I saw that he was work­ing on a new project, but his oth­er show, Three Sheets, has got­ten a stay of exe­cu­tion. Then I read this post over on his site. This tweet did lit­tle to con­vince me that Mark Cuban was des­tined to save Three Sheets.

Is Zane Lam­prey cursed? Should the title of this post real­ly be “How Zane Lam­prey Sank Two Net­works?” Think of the SEO!

Now, I get why Trav­el Chan­nel balked. They have Antho­ny Bour­dain’s show, No Reser­va­tions, which fea­tures him doing much the same thing, with more culi­nary insight and less self-aware­ness. Peo­ple like that. He’s macho. He knows famous peo­ple. Win, right? Who could be both­ered with the wild­ly relat­able Lam­prey who seems to make friends eas­i­ly wher­ev­er he goes.

I still don’t remem­ber how we dis­cov­ered “Three Sheets.” My guess is that Helen hap­pened to find it while chan­nel surf­ing, or a friend told us we should tune in. The show was great. Even if you don’t care about booze, who would­n’t enjoy on-screen tal­ent will­ing to debase him­self in ways even the Three Stooges would refuse?

Whether he was at home or abroad, Zane got him­self into all the best kinds of trou­ble. Any­one who’s ever got­ten drunk over­seas knows how it feels to wake up the next morn­ing and hop on a plane, impos­si­bly hun­gover. It’s hell, yet Zane sub­ject­ed him­self to such tor­ture glee­ful­ly. I some­times found myself real­ly root­ing for the booze to defeat him, but like the Wash­ing­ton Gen­er­als, it nev­er won.

I hope Zane isn’t exiled to Cuban’s HDNet. Where does any­one watch that? I’m real­ly sor­ry we missed him when he blew through town last June. Hope­ful­ly he’ll find a munif­i­cent home for “Three Sheets” before he’s back through.