Moldy Bagels: Episode 4 (Part Three)

Considering some of the things I say and do on the show, I think TBNK, the public access that airs my show, is extremely permissive with some of the things they let me do. Although I bleep out the swearing and tone down the material to a certain extent and they air my show at 11:30 at night, it's still probably more risque than they'd like it to be. Last week I went to the station to hand in the 5th episode on DVD, and in the studio two small children were filming an adorable news show. They were sitting at a desk and reading headlines about how the Covington elementary school teams were doing and what the cafeteria was serving for lunch. I felt a little bad that my show which throws around rape references like footballs is sharing the same channel with that program.

That being said, I still fucking hate that I can't go as all-out NC-17 as I did on my old Ron Mexico Productions sketches, and I enjoyed the section where I bleep myself out whenever I use the word "help" because it's a rare instance in which I got to use the content restrictions of the station to my advantage. If it didn't take place on a TV show where you have to bleep out the swearing, the premise wouldn't really make any sense.

I also had a lot of fun doing the tag where I play the three different characters singing "Save Tonight." The dialog is pretty close to a word-for-word transcript of a conversation I had with a customer at the restaurant. Save Tonight played on the radio, and this redneck said it was a George Clinton song because his voice is unmistakable. By some miracle I managed to completely avoid laughing in his face.

It was a pretty amazingly awesomely terrible exchange that I had to share with the world in some way, and I'm surprised that there haven't been more times that interacting with the Kentucky locals on an almost-daily basis has inspired comedy. It would make me feel better about myself when they leave me shitty tips, which is all the time. Yeah, maybe you completely screwed me over by shorting me on wages that I deserved, but at least I wasn't the loose basis for any widely ignored Youtube videos today! Suck on that!