My newest favorite guilty pleasure: A Current Affair
 

From the fake-deep-voice-yuk-it-up-but-hot-as-hell Harris Faulkner (smokin black chick), to the hilarious "in the field" assignments they give to their only correspondant (some guy who's a ringer for 20/20's John Stossel), this show is a nightly comic gold mine. A true 10 on the unintentional comedy scale.

I particularly love when they mention their "FBI Sources" in a piece, which I'm positive is actually them using Google and lifting info from the Assosicate Press.

Yesterday, in a nice ironic link to our business, I saw jackass Luke Ford on the show talking about how the "cell phone porn biz" would be up to "several billion dollars by 2006" :1orglaugh :1orglaugh which I felt was amazing considering that ALL of the online porn biz currently doesn't total "several billion dollars" currently (nice Luke, way to investigate a story for facts baby!)

But nothing tops the main lead-in story the show has been running the past two weeks straight, which is some poor bastard that got too drunk on his honeymoon cruise, did a header off his suite's balcony, and is now appropriately missing (i.e., dead from drowning).

Current Affair spun this story into a tale of "Possible Murder and Mystery on the High Seas" for at least a dozen straight shows, and now that it's fizzled out in terms of interest they chose a logical target to blame for a lack of progress in them "breaking the case wide open": The poor dead groom's parents, and widow.

They "held up the investigation" by not providing DNA blood samples to the 5-star crack team of Turkish cops doing the investigating, thus the case was unable to proceed to a conclusion. Nice. Someone had to be the scapegoat, and I didn't think of the parents being such a nice and easy target for the Current Affair "journalists". It had me giggling before they even cut to commercial, hilarious.

I recommend everyone not doing so already to set your Tivos to auto-record A Current Affair every night, it's a quick 20 minutes a day to watch without commercials, and if you don't laugh out loud AT the show and it's laughable seriousness at least twice, you can come back and flame the piss out of me.

Oh, and plus Kb is going to be on it soon for a piece he filmed recently for the Colin Farrel sex tape nonsense, that's something else to look forward to. Maybe he'll say that the tape could be worth "several billion dollars by 2006" as clueless Luke did about the celly-sex... :1orglaugh

They revived this show pretty faithful to the original. It was pretty funny the first time around. :upsidedow

No doubt, Maury Pauvich was the gold standard for overly dramatic news segments for sure. :thumbsup