Years ago I used to watch a lot of A&E for their murder / forensic shows. Anyone who watched that channel during this particular time no doubt remembers the show they had about all woman roller derbies. I even remember the name of the show offhand; it was Rollergirls. It’s easy to remember because A&E advertised this show like nobodies business. There were five minute trailers advertised nearly every commercial break. The commercial breaks that didn’t feature the trailer aired probably two shorter commercials. It seemed like they’d sometime cut to an extra commercial just to air another short Rollergirls commercial. This went on for months, to the point where I felt like I had already watched three seasons before the first show actually aired. Never have I been so sick of a show that I never even watched one episode of before. It was justice that A&E ended up cancelling Rollergirls after 13 episodes because of low ratings. See kids, advertising doesn’t mean squat if you keep throwing it in people’s faces like you’re swinging a sledgehammer at them over and over again.

I’m reminded of that by this new Frank TV show that’s either started already on TBS or is starting sometime in the near future. The advertising isn’t as obnoxious as it was with Rollergirls but it’s jumped up to the upper echelon on my annoying meter the past month regardless. Frank TV is a sketch comedy show with some guy that was on Mad TV. I don’t know who he is because I haven’t watched Mad TV for years and never got into it as much as I used to be into Saturday Night Live back in the day. All I remember about Mad TV was the blonde, the black woman who appears on VH1 list shows from time to time, and the Stewart character.

Anyway, Frank does impersonations of various people, including Dr Phil and President Bush. Because we don’t have enough Dr Phil and President Bush impersonators in the world. I have no idea if Frank is a generally funny guy, but as soon as I see him dressed up as Dr Phil I groan. I’m not really sure if this is because the idea of multiple Dr Phils in the world make me physically ill despite the fact that one of them is fake or what.

Then there’s his Bush impression, an impression done by some 20,000 other people in the US alone on a daily basis and an impression that Frank seems quite fond of since it appears in nearly every commercial for the show. Isn’t it getting to the point now where people would be embarrassed to even pretend to be George W Bush at this point? Let him do his own comedy, he doesn’t need any help. No one impersonates a comedian. It’s like, and I’m pulling a random comedian’s name out of a hat because I don’t know who’s popular now, but lets use Chris Rock. No one impersonates Chris Rock because he’s an island of funneh all onto himself. Bush brings his own comedy at this point. Any impression could only fail, because the real thing is that much funnier. That’s my theory anyway.

Anyway, I humbly request, nay, demand that you all not watch this show, so that it can be cancelled much like Rollergirls after a few episodes in a cruel twist of irony despite the bombardment of advertisements.

I have to admit, I’ve been laughing my ass off lately because there’s like 31% of the people in the country right now that approve of where the country is going and I bet if you polled those same people and asked them if they had any faith whatsoever in the country improving once Bush is out office with the current people we have in the running for his spot, you’d might get something in the low 40s. You’ve got Barack Obama’s wife playing the race card, Hillary Clinton playing the gender card … it’s like everyone’s choosing sides in some kind of country wide prison gang war or something. I’m a white guy, who am I supposed to side with? Giuliani? Can I do a write in and just vote to let someone shank me?

Hillary gave a speech the other day where she took a question regarding the environment. Problem is, the chick she took the question from was a plant. Hillary of course claims she didn’t know about it but really what do you expect her to say? “Oh yes, yes I chose that woman to ask me that question beforehand.” Come on. The Fema fake news conference was what, two weeks ago? What bright person thought this would be a good idea?

Meanwhile, I’m still looking for a candidate that actually cares less about race and gender and cares more about pandering to, I dunno, everyone. Course if I find one, they’re not getting the media attention so they won’t win anyway. Is it that hard to just worry about the problems in this country and less about some bracket you want to get the vote from? Christ, that would impress me a hell of a lot more at this point than whatever dumb ass slogan you can come up with. Elementary schools come up with slogans. Beer commercials come up with slogans. F***ing cut the cutesy bullshit, lay your cards on the table, and campaign based on what you have on those cards. That’s all I ask. I’m sick of hearing about Barack Obama’s pin, I’m sick of hearing about Hillary Clinton’s cackle, I’m sick of hearing about the candidates position on UFOs. What a clusterf*** of a presidential race and just looking at it anyone can see exactly what’s wrong with this country. Stupid politicians.