ABC To Cash In With Prehistoric Race-Baiting

BILL LAMBERT

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Tuesday, August 21. 2007

ABC To Cash In With Prehistoric Race-Baiting

Those beloved GEICO cavemen are finally getting their own sitcom, a real coup and a clever move by the folks over at ABC.

Humor is difficult in the new millenium. Back in the day, we could make fun of any-old ethnicity or rely on crass stereotypes to get a sure laugh. With no real cavemen around to complain, ABC avoids tip-toeing through today's PC minefield by introducing a new fictional ethnicity that can be disparaged without political consequences.

I wish I thought of that.

The Media Fool predicts "Cavemen" goes mega-hit, the funniest bit on TV since Coneheads. These hirsute neanderthals will play surrogate for any ethnicity we hate or believe stupid or unrefined.

God knows, people these days need to vent.

The GEICO Cavemen cope with severe ethno/cultural predjudice and inherently low IQ's, and we think this is funny.

Posted by Bill Lambert in Media Fool at 16:34 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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