Mac wrote:
I've walked a mile in Carmen's headsets. In the beginning, I nervously laughed at ill-fated punchlines. God, that was uncomfortable. After about a year or so, I just glossed over them or Jurko and I would give each other a signal to say nothing afterward for the long, awkward silence. In some perverse way, I miss that practice. Carmen will figure out what to do at some point. Repeating the joke nervously probably isn't the best response... but the lad will figure out something. It appears dealing with bad jokes has become the host's responsibility. which it shouldn't be.
Question for ya, Mac: Have you observed the tone of disingenuousness that has overtaken the show since your departure? There's an interesting contradiction at work here because the three stooges will argue passionately about a given topic, but they don't seem legitimately interested in what they're discussing. I think this stems from the fact that they are so concerned with the notion of appealing to an audience that they don't concentrate on their subject matter as much as they should. It's a classic form vs. content conflict, one that has all but totally paralyzed the show.
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Antonio Gramsci wrote:
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
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