It's Saturday Night! Or Is It?
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- Published: Tuesday, 14 July 2015 12:26
Has this happened to you? You're channel surfing and see something so surreal you have to check the time to see if you are watching a television show or a Saturday Night Live skit? It used to only happen to me when I clicked past a Lifetime movie. But television has gotten so bad, become such a parody of itself, that it is happening more and more often.
Today was a weird one. Fox News was the next wave in the order. (Okay as a disclaimer what I was doing was seeing which channels I actually had after winning the historic Battle of Comcast in my apartment and getting the 105mpps with 40 channels package. Clearly I actually have only 39 channels as it turns out because I don't plan on landing on Fox News again.) Anyway, before my eyes was a foursome of mediocre singers in puritanical costumes singing what I would describe as a lame Les Misérables total rip off.
I panicked. Was there a war after I went to bed following a Criminal Minds episode that resulted in the religious right running everything now? What am I going to do? I must have been hung in a previous life. Because I can't wear tight collars around my neck! And those skirts looked so hot. I'm perimenopausaldammit! I mean midday flippin' pilgrim costumes people!
As it turns out it was just Jon Peter Lewis' cast of Deep Love: A Ghostly Rock Opera making the rounds as they prepare to open off Broadway. Whew! I mean I want that two minutes of my life back. But it could always be worse. Elisabeth Hasselbeck could have been talking.