It amazes me what will pass as entertainment these days. The following are all forms of “entertainment” that I don’t understand. Ultimate fighting. In ultimate fighting you take away all the rules of boxing and let two individuals who appear to be missing brain cells and perhaps chromosomes go at each other. People will pay a cover charge to watch this. They call it ultimate fighting. It is a rip off. This is not ultimate fighting. These people aren’t even married. My wife could teach these guys a thing or two. She can fight with me in her sleep. Millions of people are watching ultimate fighting and you wonder why we get teenage “Girl fights” on U-Tube.
We have millions of people in this country sitting on their couches, stuffing their faces while they watch morbidly obese people try to lose weight. Who is the biggest loser here? We have a television show about people who can’t discipline their bratty monstrous offspring. Don’t we get enough of these kids at the mall, in church or at the grocer? The favorite parts of these singing and comedy audition shows are the people who are horrible. I call it the Jerry Springer factor. Our nation has an insatiable appetite for watching people who are fatter, stupider, have less teeth, less talent, suffer national humiliation and are generally more screwed up than we are.
Let’s move on to NASCAR. I’m sorry I don’t get it. Watching noisy cars drive in circles for hours. I would rather have you shove knitting needles into my eyes.
Been to a movie lately? If you are lucky one out of ten will be mildly entertaining. Eleven dollars for a quarter’s worth of popcorn and a nickel’s worth of soda!
I have a better idea. I know a couple of hundred of the greatest comedy artists in the world. They are my friends and they have dedicated most of their lives really entertaining people. Live in front of them, with no laugh track. Come see a show at J.R.’s Comedy Club, and I bet you will laugh out loud more than you did at the last comedy movie you went to. Enjoy dinner and a great show for about what you pay for dinner alone at most other places in town. Laugh with your friends and family! Now that’s real entertainment.
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