“Good Night Baghdad” with your host…….Saddam Hussein

“Good Night Baghdad” with your host…Saddam Hussein.

Yes, Saddam was executed for his deeds and is gone as we know.

However, as I watch (/endure) more of the mindless dribble called television ( think…American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, The Bachelor, America’s Got Talent, American Inventor, Thank God You’re Here, Super Nanny, Wife Swap, Extreme Makeover, and any other 3 judge reality show with one dolt brit thrown in…Please make it stop!!!!) It occurred to me (on a lighter note, yet with more talent) that an opportunity was lost that could have livened up the television offerrings considerably.

I’m envisioning a Tom Snyder style…smokin a few butts and..(maybe a lil NatX (Chris Rock) on SNL) …Saddam offering a forum for other world leaders to come on…and gripe about Bush and such (maybe some commentary on the 2008 election hopefuls). Now there’s your Web 2.0. World leaders evaluating the candidates.

Maybe the ocassional surprise guest, like Rosie O’Donnell, Andy Dick or Bill Clinton to liven things up, when there was a lul.

This feels like a show that Jimmy Kimmel and crew could produce.

And of course with Saddam apologizing at the end each night….apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time….

This is just a fictional show…that could have been…unless we have the “Weekend At Bernies” version…..Uh no…

More to come on this…

Thank God You’re Here…(NBC new)

Thank God You’re Here is set to start April 9 on NBC.

It looks like a redo of a popular show from Australia

See http://www.tgyh.com.au

Basically celebrity actors walk into a scene where they must immediately improvise their action and dialogue.

First promotional clips show Newman (Wayne Knight) and George (Jason Alexander) from Seinfeld fame.

The show’s idea seems a bit like Drew Carey’s Whose Line is it anyway?

David Alan Grier is the host (I so want to see “In Living Color [the first few seasons] again.) He is ok as host, but it doesn’t compare to the energy from Men on Film.

There was one judge. (name..to remind myself of later, Dave Foley?)

The judging felt like a weird mix of Dancing with the Stars and American Idol (neither do I get excited about….more of this horrible reality, let America vote..crapola) however the judge made all the decisions (no voting..yet)

I’ll give it a 6 out of 10 so far. I’m hopeful that it will pick up steam for next week. It’s on NBC on Monday after “Deal or No Deal”, although I read somewhere that the official time slot will be Tuesday.

More to come as it develops…

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