Posted 9:36 AM by Gene

The ERIC SEVAREID OF COMEDY's 72 STAFF WRITERS get together to devise a cover plug for SUPERADAM!

Now think if he'd used 200 writers! Maybe he did.

Plus a 4,424-WORD FEATURE PLUG that NOWHERE mentions his ratings. You looking for a job, SUPERADAM?

We know we shouldn't call him Eric Sevareid as his alleged target's the NO-SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN ZONE, but if we recall correctly his show was first intended as a kind of commentary to the EDWARD R. MURROW OF COMEDY's news, and this greatest comedian of all the ages proved in DC he could be as pompous as ERIC was in his prime, so for now, we stick with it.

We also note (in what little of this advertisement we could bring ourselves to read) that ERIC seemed to gulp at the notion that he is in some ways like TARZANA -- all the more reason not to regard these frauds as COMEDIANS but as NEWS HACKS. They want to be taken seriously without being taken seriously. But these HACKS are now every bit as much the self-regarding bloviators as the people they presume to skewer, in a different way -- and they're PAID AS MUCH. They're nothing more than "COMEDY"'s version of the NEW JOURNALISM. The time's come to deprive them of their exemption.

A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD to BOTH ADAMS! Look out newsrags, here they come!