Posted 4:58 PM by Gene

A PREDICTION: When TOM FRESTON takes over the 'CON's cable biz, at the giddy urging of IDIOT ADVERTISERS like P&G and COKE one of the first things he'll explore is a COMEDY NEWS CHANNEL. My guess is SUMNER looks upon what the EDWARD R. MURROWS of COMEDY are doing as a kind of reality TV, a way of deking out advertisers who wouldn't know better even if they did. My further guess is his bean counters are already looking at a PRIME-TIME COMEDY CENTRAL NEWS BLOCK, and possibly going LIVE with it. Never mind there isn't enough material in a day for a half minute of comedy; as THE CORNER proves the channel's fans will laugh at ANYTHING. Just one problem: what if something AWFUL happens in a day? How do you COMEDY-CENTRALIZE that? Knowing SUMNER's gang they'd probably go ahead and make fun of natural disasters, airplane crashes, terrorist attacks -- who knows? They may specialize in HUMOROUS OBITUARIES -- and doubly so because LIBERAL NEWS HACKS will call them EDGY and full of ATTITUDE, and the EQUAL AND OPPOSITE MORONS can speak glowingly of the SOUTH PARK CONSERVATIVES cleverly sprinkled on the programming. In a decent world a comedy news channel would bomb, but this isn't a decent world.