Insider reports claim that Jimmy Kimmel – who has been axed from his late night show thanks to his utterly insensitive remarks concerning the death of Charlie Kirk – is in negotiation to get reinstated.
Not only that, this contract could possibly reemploy Steven
Colbert and Fallon, even nutty Seth Meyers in a reboot of some Three Stooges
classics.
The network was concerned as to whether Kimmel play the role
of Moe, and was he sadistic enough to physically abuse him fellow comedians the
way he has verbally abused anyone associated with the Republican Party.
But a review of his previous shows demonstrated Kimmel far
exceeded the other two comedians in this regard.
Colbert apparently objected to giving the role of Moe to
Kimmel and suggested they toss a coin, until someone pointed out that there are
three comedians and a coin only has two sides.
Jon Stewart, never one to miss an opportunity to get
attention, agreed to play the role of Shemp, if the network wished to have the
program include four stooges and not just three, though network officials
seemed to think Stewart lacked talent to play the role of any stooge. Most
experts agree – with the exception of Jay Leno, who seems to be kissing the
others’ asses – none of the four have been funny in the past, and hope that by
beating the crap out of each other, they will gets some chuckles from members
of the GOP, who would clearly find that entertaining.
Just to be on the safe side, network officials are expected
to bring back the old Vaudeville hook, to drag one or more of the trio if and
when they go off script and start ranting and raving about Charlie Kirk again,
an unlikely scenario considering how contrite Kimmel became after savaging Kirk
the first time.
Still, these three (or four if you count Stewart) are perfectly
capable of screwing up a good thing, always desperate to make some kind of
political statement rather than actually being funny. Despite their rise to
power on late night TV, none of these people have talent or ethics to make
their political diarrhea sound funny, unlike Charlie Chaplin, in whose shadow
none of these three can compare.
Rumors or not, would any network dare to take a chance with
these mental giants? Can they be trusted to do slapstick after so many years of
lame political jokes.
Of course, there remains the question of how the heirs of
the original Three Stooges might feel seeing such pathetic characters parodying
the really great comic acts of the past. They could sue to keep the network
from allowing such low-life characters like these to play those roles.
If things don’t work out for Kimmel and company, he and they
might take up a profession they are truly adept at: Trash collection. After all
these year dolling out the crap they call comedy, those three certainly would
know what trash sounds like.
No comments:
Post a Comment