Blogs this week are making a big stink over Jimmy Kimmel's jokingly yet certainly truthful rhetoric at the ABC network upfronts, which is essentially a dog and pony show for TV networks to display what primetime shows they can fling at advertisers so they can, in return, fling dollars at networks.
Kimmel's monologue (because it certainly sounded and felt like a late night talk show monologue) in front of the advertising stiffs were loaded with gems like 90% of the shows premiering next fall will be canceled yet the advertisers still buy in to the insanity. He even suggested therapy for the ad men and women.
Now, I do not claim to know a whole bunch about the business of television except that that's where I'm getting my income, me being the ever-so earnest blue collar worker. But Kimmel, whether politically-charged his statements were, did poke at a very worthy topic within media, which has now turned to user and reality-based interests. And now that the seemingly blocked-from-the-public vid of his speech is making the rounds on YouTube, this is an interesting opportunity for non-TV people to see the seediness of the TV business.
Good Lord, this is totally not funny at all. What happened to sarcasm? What happened to sophomoric hijinks?
Oh, yeah...
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