David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. The Great (if Inadvertent) “Cavemen” Hoax!
Apparently, some visitors to this site are under the impression that Your Mayor is a solemn fount of indispensable wisdom and information and not, like 98% of the rest of the Internets, pure drivel. And while that is flattering, it is simply not true.
A couple of items back, I wrote that ABC’s prospective “Cavemen” series, based on the auto-insurance ads, was going to be a dramatic program, not a sitcom, the joke being that for every dubious idea for a TV show, there’s always one that’s even worse.
This quote:
“The prejudice the cavemen experience in their everyday lives is a metaphor for racism, and I don’t see how anyone could find racism remotely funny,” Lawson told me. “Well, except when it’s supposed to be, like on ‘Chapelle’s Show’ or a Michael Richards stand-up routine. No, ‘Cavemen’ will be a powerful drama about social misunderstandings and ignorance, and about how these brave and enduring men struggle to find their way and strive to correct the misperceptions about their kind. It will force viewers to examine the ugly preconceptions that lie within their own hearts and serve as an uplifting saga of men who overcome irrational hatred to inspire a nation.”
– filled with some fuzzy thinking (defending Michael Richards?) and pretentious gobbledygook, I thought, would give away the game. And, if not, then the dreadful scene at the end of the entry should’ve convinced everyone that the notion was nonsense.
But one forgets that there is so much on Television that is execrable that even a really awful idea sounds plausible if considered from the point of view of an addled network executive. And so, those commenting on the entry took it at face value or thought that the show’s creator was having a laugh at my expense.
And then, a website rounding up news stories on all things TV linked to it, taking it at straight-faced value. And another site picked it up off of that (though to be fair, that blogger, while scratching his head, did allow, “This must be an early April Fool’s joke”).
Before it goes any further, full disclosure: I did not talk to Joe Lawson, who created the commercials and is behind the show, just as I did not speak to Bahamian Governor-General Arthur Hanna for an entry about a new museum dedicated to the life of Anna Nicole Smith, and just as I was not actually interviewed by Chris Wallace over my role in allowing reality-TV to attack our airwaves.
By the way, stay tuned as in future entries I will prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, rip the lid off Sumner Redstone’s cannibalism habits and demonstrate that the Scooter Libby trial was a conspiracy attempting to turn our country’s attentions away from Britney Spears’ latest travails.
Comments
You had me at "solemn fount of indispensible wisdom..." *swoon*
All Hail the Power of The Mayor!
Posted by: Suzy Q | March 7, 2007 4:53 PM
Lord Mayor -
The good citizens of the unnamed TV roundup site should be much more careful.
It pains me to see that there are still those interpretists that don't pick up on good old- fashioned satire. I recognized it as such instantly - however, I have to admit to having received the same kind of reaction to a missive such as this myself. So I kinda knew that somebody was going to be fooled - I just never thought it would go that far!
Good work, Your Worship.
Posted by: Seamania | March 8, 2007 11:17 AM