Hock Show Weekend Top Five for October 11th – 17th, 2009
1. Balloon Boy…Wasn’t. Oh, balloon boy, how you captured the hearts of…news anchors? Everybody else pretty much knew it was a huge hoax. The guy has been on Wife Swap *twice* people. Come on.
2. Finally, That One Show is Over. Jon Gosslin’s legal actions have forced TLC to cancel “Kate Plus Eight” after the current season. Finally. Now those poor kids can go back to being screamed at by their overbearing mother and clueless father in private.
3. Fox News is What?! Anita Dunn, the White House director of communications finally came out and said what everybody has known for ten years, “Fox News is a wing fo the Republican Party.” Nobody disagrees, mind, but that’s still not something the white house director of communications should actually be…saying.
4. Which Is a Coincidence, Because the Only Way to Make SNL Interesting Again Is Beer. For the first time in the modern TV era, Saturday Night Live sold every minute of it’s ad time to one company. Anheuser-Busch, who is despirate to reclaim its image after getting really horrible over the last two decades. I’ll let you decide which I’m talking about.
5. Twitter Is For Quitters. First NFL players are told to stop using their accounts because they often sound stupid, then the NBA, then politicians, then Miley, now major movie studios are telling actors to stop going on Twitter and scaring off fans. Namely, Cameron Diaz and Mike Myers. Diaz, mostly because she’s nuts and an activist, and Mike Myers because he’s just not funny any more. Now who’s going to tweet about Shrek?