27 March 2003

Pop Culture Television

So I’m loving being home all day right now. It sucked when it was all I did, but after working for a month, I’m happy to have time off. This morning I watched Live with Regis and Kelly, but Kelly Ripa was off, with Daryl Hammond taking her place for the day. But even better is MTV’s changing daily schedule. TRL’s great, and in the morning they actually play music, but then at some point in the afternoon they’ll show a marathon of one of their shows. Already this week I’ve been treated to Fraternity Life and Sorority Life II (both fantastic), and now I’m watching PUNK’D. I’m not a big fan of pranks, which sucks because I agree that if they’re well crafted they’re really damn funny. I just don’t like being mean to people and making fun of people at their expense. Plus they’re screwing with the lovely Eliza Dushku. But wow was it funny when they pretended to reposess all of Justin Timberlake’s stuff, or when they put a kid on the red carpet of the VH1 awards and he asked Tori Amos what it was like to be on 90210 or Denise Richards what it was like to play someone smart.