NBC presents a new comedy out this fall: Outsourced

[Earth_First]

Seriously?!

How exactly is this considered funny?

MILLIONS of folks are currently unemployed due to the very premise that NBC deems as grounds to create a comedy to unroll during the fall televison season...

WTF?!

[DebJ]

1. Hmm. If they do it here in York, it could be based on the

school system.

[OhioChick]

2. I'm sure they'll get emails/calls from very irate, unemployed people n/t

[madmax]

3. Perhaps satire ala Archie Bunker?

I don't watch much teevee except for Rachel, KO, etc. :shrug:

[Renew Deal]

4. It might be good

And maybe lots of people will be able to relate to it. :shrug:

[Cleita]

5. I thought the same.

It would be like doing a comedy on "Homeless In the Park".

[iris27]

6. Not to mention it's racist as all hell.

They might as well call it Super-Happy-Fun-Time Indian Stereotype Hour.

[marmar]

7. True....I saw a preview of the show, and it was nothing but Indian stereotypes.....

nt

[Earth_First]

8. +1 n.t

[Toucano]

14. Vilsack, is that you?

It hasn't aired.

You haven't seen it.

But based on an excerpt, you're ready to pronounce it "racist as hell"?

Isn't that what we just saw the Secretary of Agriculture do very recently?


No wonder the right-wing is so good at yanking the left's chain.

[fishwax]

9. depends on how they handle it, I guess

I think the guy who created it has been a long-time writer for "The Office," so he's got some experience with the funny. I know the TV show is based on a movie--I've heard some good things about it, but haven't seen it.

As for the TV show, I think it could be good or it could be bad.

It reminds me a bit of the mid-80s, when Ron Howard made that movie Gung Ho, about an American auto plant being taken over by a Japanese company. It came out in 1986, and there was pretty high unemployment then, too, if I recall. There was also a TV show based on that, but it didn't last very long.

[dflprincess]

10. How appropriate that it airs on NBC

Which is owned by GE. Whose CEO was Jack Welch - a pioneer of outsourcing.

[notesdev]

11. Followed by the new comedy

Hangin' with TV Execs and Lampposts - so funny you'll just die! It's a riot!

[Toucano]

12. Comdey and Tragedy are close cousins.

I haven't seen it so I can't say, but I can imagine situations that could be humorous.

Laugh and the world laughs with you...

[eShirl]

13. "Comedy is not pretty."

[digitaln3rd]

15. It's a comedy.. lighten up.

It's a comedy.. lighten up.

[SunnySong]

16. NBC Announces Fall Cancellation Lineup

NEW YORK—At a press conference Tuesday, the NBC television network unveiled its new fall lineup of programs that will be canceled almost immediately after airing. "We could not be more excited for this season of soon-to-be-absent shows," said NBC chairman Jeff Gaspin, standing beneath an oversized "Must-Miss TV" banner. "Joining our Thursday night comedy lineup is the can't-win Father Shane in the 9:30 slot, followed by the never-going-to-be-given-a-chance news magazine Insight. And if you like drama, you're going to be crushed when we unfairly yank our critically acclaimed supernatural thriller Dark Riders after only four episodes." Gaspin added that fans would also be surprised by changes in store for some of their old favorites, specifically that all of them would be canceled.


http://www.theonion.com/articles/nbc-announces-fall-cancellation-lineup,17755/

[Kat45]

17. I saw an ad for that show.

I am not amused that someone would find humor in jobs being outsourced. Too many people are hurting, too many cannot find jobs because the jobs are now in India (and other Third World countries).

[Rex]

18. Hey it is funny to them! They all have gggreaaat jobs and sit around

in an plush office, thinking up funny things to put on TV! I bet if they all got outsourced...the show would get all serious and meaningful. :eyes:

[HEyHEY]

19. Well, maybe it will draw more attention to this and help do something about it.

[Greybnk48]

20. I give this show 1 week, 2 max.

My husband and I comment on this every time the ad runs. The utter insensitivity and tone deafness of NBC in this case is mind boggling. They really think they can make the loss of millions of American jobs seem accepted and acceptible will not fly. Unreal.

[HEyHEY]

21. dammit, I had an idea like this

I live in Beijing and have always thought a comedy about expats IN a foreign country would be amazing. So many fucking hilarious things happen on a daily basis to expats in China, mainly due to communication issues.

[johnnie]

22. People felt this way about MASH

A comedy about war during Vietnam.

[Edweird]

23. "I'll take 'What is tone deaf?' for $200 Alex"

Seriously, WTF are they thinking?