Today's closed-captioning assignment was an old stand-up comedy program from the CHCH formerly known as innovative. It's dated back to 1992 -- yeah, that long ago -- and watching it, my first thought was: "How is it not immediately obvious to everybody in the audience that each of these comics snorted up a gallon of cocaine before they ran out on stage? Oh, that's right, because everyone in the audience is drunk."
I think I know why this is airing on TV Land and not on the Comedy Network; because it's not funny, it's an historical curiosity. Charlie Weiner just spent five minutes talking about his vasectomy and giggling. It wasn't a particularly funny routine, but one woman in the audience was literally holding her sides from laughing so hard. This is, I believe, because it was 1992, years before South Park and such, and this subject was still considered too taboo for the mainstream. They're not laughing because the routine is all that funny, they're laughing because it's shocking and has thus surprised them into laughing. Ooh, look at that bad boy, tee hee, we're so naughty.
It was a more innocent time. Innocent and on cocaine.
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