Radio Ga(g) Ga(g)

American radio really is rubbish. I caught some of "92.3 Free FM" this morning and the Roth Radio show. The call-in debate was - I kid you not - what would you rather be: dead or blind? And the responses came flooding in. Roth was going on about how he wouldn't care what he wore, or how his hair looked or what kind of women he was seen next to. The listeners were treating this with the kind of seriousness usually reserved with should we go to war?

It brought to mind the seminal scene from 'I'm Alan Partridge' where, in a typical moment of desperation, Alan mentioned several ideas for a new programme on the BBC as alternatives to the Knowing Me, Knowing You chat show. The BBC executive had to listen to these classics: "Lady Parts with Alan Partridge", "Alan Attack", "Arm Wrestling with Chas and Dave", "Knowing M.E, Knowing You with Alan Partridge", "Inner City Sumo", and "Monkey Tennis". The fact that Roth would happily use any of those is an irony not lost on me.