What's weak this week......
Nov. 9th, 2007 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundWhen I was in college, I watched "Almost Live" on Comedy Central. I suppose that, in retrospect, that show broadcast mind-control rays that caused me to eventually migrate to Seattle.
However, I suspect they're right, "Almost Live" couldn't work nowadays. Mostly because some stick-up-the-butt type would object to ANYTHING funny. And yes, I'm saying that knowing that as a transplant former Californian, I'd be the target of a lot of their satire.
Lame, lame, lame........
Former 'Almost Live' host wistful for the quirky Seattle show once lampooned
"Horse sex, more specifically, sex between humans and horses, makes John Keister wistful, pining. Not that the former "Almost Live" star has such desires for himself. No. He is, by all accounts, a man of standard appetites in that regard.
But human-equine love, especially when it takes place in Enumclaw, especially when it spurs arch-conservative state Sen. Pam Roach into a (legislative) dead run and especially when it happens at the very time Keister lacks a television sketch show makes him sad. Makes a guy feel like he's lost a little giddyup.
"When you read stuff like that," he said, referring to the 2005 news of an animal sex farm in the rural town southeast of Seattle, "it makes you want to write something about it. On a show like 'Almost Live,' you lived for those news stories."
It's been eight years since a new episode of "Almost Live" came out. Up-down-up-down monorail, drunken driving council candidates, the Sonics owner's feet of Clay and civic paralysis -- all became vital local issues. But they also represent something more. They are missed opportunities, unwritten bits. Here was the target-rich environment where "Almost Live" made its mark for 15 years."
The article has links to videos of some skits :-)
However, I suspect they're right, "Almost Live" couldn't work nowadays. Mostly because some stick-up-the-butt type would object to ANYTHING funny. And yes, I'm saying that knowing that as a transplant former Californian, I'd be the target of a lot of their satire.
Lame, lame, lame........
Former 'Almost Live' host wistful for the quirky Seattle show once lampooned
"Horse sex, more specifically, sex between humans and horses, makes John Keister wistful, pining. Not that the former "Almost Live" star has such desires for himself. No. He is, by all accounts, a man of standard appetites in that regard.
But human-equine love, especially when it takes place in Enumclaw, especially when it spurs arch-conservative state Sen. Pam Roach into a (legislative) dead run and especially when it happens at the very time Keister lacks a television sketch show makes him sad. Makes a guy feel like he's lost a little giddyup.
"When you read stuff like that," he said, referring to the 2005 news of an animal sex farm in the rural town southeast of Seattle, "it makes you want to write something about it. On a show like 'Almost Live,' you lived for those news stories."
It's been eight years since a new episode of "Almost Live" came out. Up-down-up-down monorail, drunken driving council candidates, the Sonics owner's feet of Clay and civic paralysis -- all became vital local issues. But they also represent something more. They are missed opportunities, unwritten bits. Here was the target-rich environment where "Almost Live" made its mark for 15 years."
The article has links to videos of some skits :-)
