From the CBC .. Schitte's Creek With an "E"
From CTV .. Young Corner Gas 

So... ya wanna be in Show Biz?   Two sure-fire ways, it seems. A cooking show where some guy with blue hair bullies and abuses  you, or bring back an version of a previous hit. Hey, if they think Lucas Till can be the new McGyver, how bad can your idea be?   

Vision TV, the religious station, has a bit of a problem with the truth.  Like most others I've been watching a LOT more TV lately and I've discovered a couple of shows that have helped pass the time; shows that I might not have otherwise watched.  One is Vera, a British police drama that centers around a disheveled Tyneside detective. My wife and I have grown to enjoy it and we appreciate that it's available on PBS and Vision TV. Except on Vision TV it's promoted, graphics and all, as a "Major Movie" each time it airs; complete with numerous bumpers  out of commercial breaks.  Well, it's not a "Major Movie" -- it's a 9 year-old TV show.  It happens to be 90 minutes long, but it's still a TV show. I am fully aware this is very small beer compared to everything else that's going on right now, but you know what?   It's a glaring misdemeanour as  it would be on any other station, but on a religious channel the irony is rich for such a transgression against the commandant that forbids bearing false witness. 

The kind of humour that ruined AM Radio! 
 

You find it  amusing when people lose their jobs? I don't.

It says, "Don't be a dick..."
 

 No, it was a NATIONAL cast, damn their Toronto-centric souls to hell! 

Have you ever heard this guy?   Flat, FLAT, F.L.A.T delivery.  Not so bad on TV where he  has viz, but on Radio he's  piss on a plate. PLUS he has this annoying habit of re-introing his guest unnecessarily. Look, it's an 8 minute segment... tops. A minute to intro and a minute to extro leaves you six. It's is NOT necessary to re-intro the guest at the 3-minute mark!!  This guy does that plus recaps everything that has just been said! Listeners are stupid, apparently, but they're not THAT stupid.

Gotta say I was underwhelmed at the impersonation. The writing was pretty funny though... for a Canadian audience.  I don`t think the Yanks got the references to Harvey`s etc.

Dozens,  if not hundreds,  of really, Really, REALLY,  R.E.A.L.L.Y good broadcasters out of work,   and this third-rate-whiskey-soaked-voice-blowhard-loudmouth-know-it-all at the end of the bar everyone wishes would just pay his tab and gtfo  is getting a network show? Really? Sigh. Yup. Radio is dead. 

This is a VERY bad week to be a Liberal.

Actually what you might want to do is speak like ordinary people speak. You know, the people who listen to you. The ones you want to identify with you. Maybe it IS  pronounced to-mah-to, but hat's not what most people say,  and when YOU say it they think you're pretentious. The traditional pronunciation of short-lived is with a long "i".  Try saying THAT on the radio just once! 


 

Rush delivers a sermon. A phone call would throw him off his cadence. I have heard him  take calls and he's not very good at handling them, imo.  There are many examples of men who delivered similar non-stop preaching to the converted.  Fidel Castro,  on the communist side. Rush and Hannity are on, shall we say, the other side. There's no difference. None of these people, past and present, left or right,  is on your side. They have an agenda. We are all being played. By both sides. It's very depressing if you think about it. So don't! lol

You misunderstood me, twice.

First of all my post, "The way I figger, everybody from  Gillette went out after work the night the ad dropped and got drunk.  Their toast? 'Success! We got them talkin'!'" was meant to refute previous comments about the Gillette ad. If the purpose of advertising is to draw attention to your product, the ad was an unqualified success. Yes, some people took issue with it. Gillette knew that going in and went with the campaign anyway.I say bravo Gillette! 

Secondly, I did not mean to single you out for not posting. I said you haven't posted anything positive in quite a while  which is no sin, but even if you ARE sinless I thought it was unfair to cast stones.

What I also thought was unfair and I still do  was labeling me as a MAGA hat wearing right winger. I'm not, and as insipid as they may be, my posts prove it.

Peace, Jody. BTW, I'm a fan.

 

The way I figger, everybody from  Gillette went out after work the night the ad dropped and got drunk.  Their toast? "Success! We got them talkin'!"