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| Grand Noir |
How many of my faithful friends and readers can remember the character of Louie on MTV's The State?
He was the guy who came in and said his catch phrase over and over again. As a young lad in my mid-teens, the joke flew over my head.
To me, it was just a funny guy saying a funny thing. Only much later did the joke get revealed to me. Louie was a response to the pressure MTV put on The State to have a quotable recurring character.
So they made the worst one they could think of. Frankly, that kind of thinking is just brilliant, but as Americans, our attention spans have been dwindling for decades. That's why terrible comedians like Larry The Cable Guy make millions. Short attention spans and catch phrases.
