HERE’S THE THING: Something else is now called “Here’s The Thing” even though it’s a really generic name for a thing
Welcome to HERE’S THE THING, where I talk about comedy-related things in a very HERE’S THE THING-type way.
Alec Baldwin has a new podcast on WNYC which he’s calling “Here’s The Thing,” even though a more fitting name would be, “Here’s The Five Minutes Of Set-Up For A 23-minute Thing.” I haven’t listened to the whole first episode, which includes an interview with Michael Douglas, because every time I try to pause it in Chrome the voice actually doubles up and then hitting play triples the voice and so on and so forth, and there’s enough of a lag between them all that it just ruins any chance of understanding what’s being said. Plus it was boring. It’s like two publicists trying to out-uninteresting-story one another.
My point is, Alec (if that is your real name), there’s already one snoozer of a thing called “Here’s The Thing.” And it’s this thing. My thing is so bad, in fact, that I called it “HERE’S THE THING,” literally the laziest thing to call a thing. Your thing features Alec Baldwin, star of 30 Rock and star of the most mind-bogglingly mundane posters for 30 Rock anyone has ever concocted. Your thing trumps my thing, but you’re still going with ‘Here’s The Thing”? Don’t you remember those posters I linked to in the last sentence?
My point is: I’m in New York; you’re in New York. You need guests; I need a place to talk about “Here’s The Thing.” Let’s get a good thing going.
