Feel better TV
Whenever you need a quick pick-me-up of the
emotional kind, just tune into your favorite morning talk show host.
These guys always have some sorry nimrod
who is bound to make you feel better about your own pathetic lot in life.
Ken Hanson
Whether it is Jerry, Riki, Montel, Jenny
or Sally, these a.m. gabbers inevitably have the biggest losers in the
human race on their shows.
Maybe their lover is cheating on them with
a person of the same sex, his mother or the cousin.
Possibly their teen child is out of control
or banging around with the whole town.
No matter what the problem is, it is never
as bad as your problem.
Even if your girlfriend cheated on you
or broke your heart, she probably didn't do it with your brother or something.
If you failed your chemistry midterm, you
can at least take comfort in the fact that you don't have an out of control
teen who needs to go to boot camp.
These pathetic lumps of skin are good for
something, though.
Their poor misfortune in life will do nothing
but make you feel better about yourself.
It is sad to say that we can possibly learn
something from a TV program, especially one of these lame shows.
But we can learn that there are in fact
people who really are worse off than we are.
Maybe it is not reality, but at least it
has the potential to be therapeutic.
Where else can you get an hour of therapy
five days a week for such a low price?
Remember, when things are looking their
darkest, flip on one of those lowbrow talk shows.
It is bound to lift your spirits.
Ken Hanson is the opinion editor for
the Daily Forty-Niner. |
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