Think our media isn't corporate-owned?

Television: imitative, repetitive, umimaginative

Okay, Conan O'Brien's show is an empty, sad imitation of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, as I said the other day and last evening I discovered that "How I Met Your Mother" is a blatant, shallow, hollow attempt at repeating the success, such as it was, of "Friends".

Really, people.

You can do much better.

It reminds me of the old song:

"Blow up the TV..."


Think happy thoughts and have a great day and weekend.

Conan O'Brien's show

Am I the only one who thinks Conan O'Brien and/or some executives got together (a few times now) and have said, aloud, that what they need to do is do their best to totally re-create the old Johnny Carson "Tonight Show", right down to the set and the fat sidekick?

I saw his new show on TBS and that's precisely what I came away with.

Except Conan isn't as funny.

By a long shot.

And Johnny never seemed desperate.

Yikes.

Quote of the day--it's all agin' us

"It's a shitty world and the fix is in. The drinks are watered, the decks are stacked and the laws are cobwebs for the rich and chains for the poor. You can eat all you want, but that's because they know you'll just fill up on bread. The House always wins and democracy means you get to choose between two straight male protestant businessmen who went to school together. Meanwhile the oil rigs explode and the wars go on and the taxpayers pay the bankers' bonuses because a contract's a contract. In sæculum, et in sæculum sæculi. Like the Jerk said, it's a profit deal, and anyone who tells you different is either protecting you or they don't know what they're talking about." And get this--it's actually from a comedian, writing comedy. I love this guy. Link to original post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/i-love-america-because-no_b_635696.html