Rainy days and Mondays: The Weather Channel is cutting costs, canceling its morning show and other series and going back to what it does best: weather.
Good. That means more footage of dim-witted weathermen doing stand-ups in the middle of hurricanes, tornados and blizzards.
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Just read the teleprompter: “Do you want fries with that?” Joined for a rally by Vice President Joe Biden, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the minimum wage for fast food workers was being raised to $15 an hour. “You’re going to make every single governor … in America look at themselves,” Biden said.
And every single governor will look at themselves and — for $15 an hour — wonder how they’d look in a McDonald’s uniform.
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Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: The stars come out for the latest telethon, “Think It Up,” an education fundraiser that will broadcast Friday night.
After the Muscular Dystrophy Association pulled Jerry Lewis’ Labor Day telethon off the air this year, expect Lewis to stage a coup and shout, “Timpani, roll those toteboard numbers.”
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