Day: April 13, 2011

Take it from Snee: The Comedy Awards tried to kill comedy

Let me state for the record that I normally wouldn’t write about an awards show. As somebody who appreciates comedy more than my struggling family, I hate awards shows because comedy never wins except in explicitly comic categories.

So, I gave Comedy Central’s (really, Viacom’s) Comedy Awards a shot.

The first presenter, Jon Stewart, opened up the night with a prediction that future generations would look back on Sunday and say, “Hey, remember that year when Comedy Central held an awards show? How weird was that?”

Unfortunately for Stewart and the network, they already tried that back in 2003 with The Commies, which was also hosted by Andy Richter. Not a good start, and other than a few nice moments, it did not get better. Continue reading Take it from Snee: The Comedy Awards tried to kill comedy

First struggling anything to not consider stripping

The town of Lead, South Dakota took a vote and decided not to allow nude dancing in its “downtown” regions.

South Dakota law allows for nudie bars, provided they are at least a quarter mile from residences, businesses or community gathering places, which in our books would mean “anywhere, including within itself.” Apparently, though, the law can be changed by local ordinances, and that failed to happen in Lead.

This decision could have really boosted Lead’s economy, especially since the town is home to the one of the largest shafts in the Western Hemisphere. The shaft is so massive, in fact, that scientists are able to research neutrinos and other cosmic phenomena inside of it. To really put this shaft into perspective, it is so mindbogglingly immense that your mom calls it on those weekends when you stay with your dad.

On second thought, maybe the people of Lead voted correctly.

Business venture with a sour taste

Capitalism is one of the things that makes this country rich great. Who doesn’t have fond memories of their first steps into the capitalist world by setting up a lemonade stand without a business permit, locating it on property not zoned for commercial use, selling a product consumers could make themselves, and refusing to pay its employees hourly wages?

That way, you get to learn that you need an investor, and that you really shouldn’t make your friends business partners. But three girls in Georgia were treated to a less-common lesson in capitalism when a couple robbed them of the $130 they had raised to donate to a sick child for medical treatment.

That, children, is the lesson of “never open a business without a security guard or lawyer present, because the bastards out there want to take your money and never look back.”

(The alleged lemonade stand thieves were arrested.)