Real life is better when it happens to other people.
If you've noticed a theme this month it's TV, everything's about TV, which is fun cause next month is Walmart and baby jesus month. But this month is TV month, and keeping with the TV theme is my new love for caught on tape shows, and the caught on tape network A.K.A., Fox.
These crazy caught on tape shows are hypnotizing, because a) they are real, b) they show us how stupid we all are, c) so amazingly funny. The real life home video shows are a cultural funhouse mirror, and our culture is funny to begin with so Hoo-Hah!
The Fox Network is the birthplace and cemetary of everything funny and stupid. It gave us The Simpsons and cursed us with Party of Five. But taking television in this bold new direction, once again, I love Fox.
The staple of these caught on tape shows is the helicopter crashing, or the fighter jets colliding during those devil may care heart pumping stunts at airshows. Airshow disasters is probably the most action packed tragic humor. What it truly amazing is that 99 times out of 100 a plane will crash at an airshow, yet airshows are still so incredibly boring. I've seen some faces of death stuff and I think it sucks, watching it is morbid and disturbing. But if you are into that sort of thing, go to an Italian airshow, cause one way or another someone's gonna get it.
When things blow up is another popular theme on Fox, usually its a toy factory or a Japanese nuclear facility, a stray spark ignites a row of My Little Pony dolls and Blammo! good bye factory. The funniest part is that the guy who catches it on tape is always strange. And no one ever asks what he was doing at 10:30 in the morning with a video camera just coincidentally near a factory when it erupted into a giant Hasbro fireball.
Then there was the guy who got his head stuck in an elephant's ass. Although I don't doubt this has happened to people over and over throughtout history, sometimes more on purpose than other times, catching on video a man with his head inside an elephants ass is sublime. This is the kind of thing that benchmarks a generations coming of age. We are living in the golden era of heads in asses home video. What a time to be alive!
But there is a new kid on the caught on tape block, the shocking behavior caught on tape shows. If you haven't seen these, usually its something like the lunch ladies at an elementary school doing stripshows for the principle in a back room during recess. Why these people have the balls and the presence of mind to record all of this totally escapes me. They might as well write on the tape label "for future submission by the district attorney as peoples evidence exhibit #1". In terms of deviant behavior the less you commit to permanence by way of video, the better.
They also feature a lot of spring break naked chicks style comedy. I never wanted to go to Daytona beach more than after I saw this. All it is, girls totally naked on stages, balconies, and flatbed trucks embarrassing themselves for 5000 drunk guys. I find personal debasement possibly the most amusing form of ego destruction, because you know these girls just hate themselves when they realize what they've done. Being naked in public is a funny thing to do, partly for the shock value, and mostly for the fact that naked=comedy. But even I would be a little embarrassed if it was nationally broadcast.
Keep it up sisters, those cheering guys, that's all for you.
But there is no shortage of men doing brilliantly embarrassing things, one guy was harrassing this co-worker he hated, so the harrassed guy hid a camera next to his desk. It turns out the way the guy was harrassing him was by draping his dick over the guys shoulder. Now that is funny!