Ask Yourself: Are We Funnier Now Than We Were Four Years Ago?
Infinity, you're doing a heck of a job.
On the heels of botched responses to Katrina and Rita, startling disaster-unpreparedness news from New York: Howard Stern will leave Infinity Broadcasting for Sirius this January. And Variety‘s Michael Learmonth reports that after contacting celebs such as Jon Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg and Geraldo Rivera as potential replacements for Howard Stern, Infinty CEO Joel Hollander said yesterday that he won’t replace the King of All Media with a single host.
OK… Talk about “burying the lead” here: Four years after September 11th, this country is so woefully underequipped when it comes to radio comedy that after Jon Stweart turns down a job, we’re going to Whoopi and – right after her – goddamned Geraldo Rivera? That’s OUR PLAN?
I can understand going to Jon Stewart.
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