Monday, July 13, 2009

Today's mid-morning contained an episode of the Daily Show followed by the Colbert Report, and its actually not over yet but I felt I had to report on a chilling and hysterical moment. In a segment titled "Fourth of July Under Attack," Colbert said, "Were it not for the American Revolution, all nature documentaries would look like this:" and then they cut to a clip from the BBC's Planet Earth in which a white wolf was attacking a herd of sheep, but they sped up the footage and played the music from the Benny Hill Show. I just stood there extremecida - when I would go to Gaggie and Alice's house when I was little I always took in an enormous amount of television and the Benny Hill Show was particularly disturbing to me. I liked to watch soft core porn on the cable channels and I made a Barbie whorehouse, but watching that fat old man chasing bikini clad girls through the English countryside always offended my sensibilities. Colbert knows what I mean.

1 comment:

amir said...

You never told me about the Barbie whorehouse.

As if you closet your libido as you age? I don't find it appealing, but maybe it tells us something about humanity: we fear death and we want to be young and stay young; we know that is impossible, so we delude ourselves by obsessing about youth while our beer bellies get bigger and bigger. What if Benny Hill had a bough physique and six pack despite his age? What if he was Mrs. Robinson?