Runester

So, tonight was meatloaf night! That’s good stuff, man. After dinner, Lisa & I watched the DVR’ed ep of House. Then, while waiting for something else to come on, she found an infomercial for The Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show. She watched it and watched it … and I think she really liked it! The point of the infomercial was to sell you a stupid subscription to a 30 year old TV show. But, to her, I think it represented a sort of nostalgia of a time in her parents life when her father was alive and they were all happy together.

Personally, I don’t think she’d like it today. I could be wrong, but tastes have changed a great deal over the last three decades and the broad comedy based on silly word play and prat falls isn’t nearly as funny to modern audiences then it used to be.

Maybe I’m totally wrong. Maybe this video series is a timeless classic. Maybe she’d love it. But I don’t think so. And, I know I certainly wouldn’t. My humour is Monte Python … the absurd juxtaposition of logical extremes, the creation of a fantastical and silly world through an unspoken agreement of present participants. That’s my idea of funny! Sitting on chairs that collapse? Not so much.