On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 4:07 AM, JW <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The harder part for Kevin's network (an interesting idea) would be dealing > with all the material that was topical at the time. Johnny's jokes about > Earl Butz don't resonate much any more, even among people who remember him. > > There's a UK sitcom I liked called Drop The Dead Donkey which was a sort of Murphy Brown type of show that featured jokes about current events and politicians. For reruns, which is when I discovered it, it was preceded by a five or ten second Chyron and narrator who gave the date the episode aired, and the two or three people or events in the news that were going to be joked about.
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