Dave on Demand: Getting lots of static from cable company
Got cable? What do you when you lose service 90 minutes before the World Series and Penn State games? You call your service provider, right?
Got cable?
What do you when you lose service 90 minutes before the World Series and Penn State games? You call your service provider, right?
Good luck with that, bud.
Turns out there are 47 different listings for Comcast in the phone book. I knew I had hit pay dirt when I got a recorded menu that was harder to negotiate than Mideast peace.
I was prompted to enter so much information (phone number, account number, etc.), I thought they were going to ask for my mother's Social Security. Then the recording flipped back to the original menu and I had to start all over again.
After the reboot, including the helpful suggestion to check that the set was plugged in, I was put on hold. The wait seemed to fly by as I listened to appeal after appeal to purchase the NFL Sunday Ticket and an interior wire-service maintenance plan (a mere $3.99 a month).
Finally the recording informed me I was being put through to a service representative. The extension rang three times, switched to a busy signal, and went dead.
After nearly 50 minutes of this infuriating waltz, I got an actual human being - who put me on hold and came back to tell me there was a service outage but he could not provide an estimate of when it might be fixed.
Why did that not surprise me? I'm willing to bet that all the repairmen were watching the games.
Touchdown Jesus.
I was tuned in to
SportsCenter
the next morning to see what I had missed when an extended ad came on for a package of Christian power anthems from Time Life.
I'm just wondering what demographic they are tryng to reach with this commercial airing during a sports highlight show on a Sunday morning?
Men who aren't at church and feeling guilty about it?
Funny girl.
I was never a fan of
Will & Grace
(mostly because Debra Messing annoys me), but I loved Megan Mullally's guest turn on
30 Rock
this week as an adoption official checking Liz's suitability.
Mullally was particularly funny after getting knocked silly by a pair of golden nunchakus.
Can't wait for next week's episode. I have two words for you: Oprah!
Touch that dial.
There was a great period detail in the season finale of
Mad Men
. As Don watched J.F.K. announce the Cuban blockade on a black-and-white set, the picture begins to flip.
Do you remember when you had to adjust the vertical on your TV at least twice an hour?
Wolfsbane.
I bow to no man in my admiration of Jon Stewart of
The Daily Show
. But have you ever noticed how hairy the backs of his hands are? He's got more hair just on his knuckle joints than most guys have on their whole bodies.
Stewart looks like Lon Chaney Jr. transforming into the wolfman. A very funny Lon Chaney.
