Name:Buford McGraw

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

No, shut up, YOU'RE wrong!!!

I'm reading this story (registration required) in today's New York Times about the forthcoming debut of the Colbert Report, which, if it's even 50 per cent as good as the Daily Show, would still make it the second best show on television, and I notice this interesting quote at article's end from US cable news screaming monkey Joe Scarborough:


Asked if he had any advice for Mr. Colbert, who will also interview one guest each night, Mr. Scarborough passed on a nugget that he said had been given to him by an MSNBC executive.

"If you let someone talk for more than seven seconds on your show without interruption," he said, "then you are a failure."


That pretty much summarizes the state of public discourse today, in one tidy little soundbite.

Speaking of Stephen Colbert's new show, which is scheduled to premier next week, it doesn't appear as though our Comedy Network, with all of its excellence in programming, is going to be carrying it. At least not as of yet, as there's nothing about it on their website.

Now I know that they already have a pretty packed schedule, what with such top-notch shows such as Bacterialcultured with Elvira 'the Grimace' Kurt, syndicated Everybody Loves Raymond episodes, and that ridiculously sophmoric college show involving Motley Crue's monosyllabic drummer, you know...what's his name...but you'd think they could maybe air...I don't know, one less re-run of Comedy at Club 54 a day to make room for Colbert?

Please?

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