You know, every once and a while, Canadians do have taste. After a 4 month (give or take) run on Canada’s Global Television, Mike Bullard finally gets the boot from his brutally un-funny talk show. The reason according to Global were, of course, poor ratings. Out of the other side of their greed-head mealy mouths comes a pathetic sympathy-fuck and flaccid well wishes for the extremely “un-hip” Bullard and his future.

Here’s a guy who can’t make a talk show work when his only other competition is a sock puppet. (Somebody should have told the show’s producers that a couple of bimbos from Orgasm.com could have kept viewers from flipping.)

Some University Media Pundit notes in the Global article that we Canadians are just unable to mimick the All-American realm of the “yap-fest” and that Bullard has “a style that may not go over with everybody”. I’ll say. Un-funny. Zero Charisma. His monolgues and audience heckling go over like a belligerent drunk uncle you can’t get off the mic at your sister’s wedding.

Another reason Mike can’t cut the mustard, according to the same article, is that we are unable to get the calibre of guests (sorry, the article is actually quoted as saying “product”) that the U.S. talk shows continuously crank out.

Why Canadians insist on apologizing for themselves and making excuses as to why they aren’t able to compete with the States is truly mind boggling. It’s also bullshit, since Much Music is able to get a steady stream of popular U.S.and European musicians to interview and to play live on a consistent basis.

What the Global article neglects to mention is that Bullard doesn’t appeal to ANY age group. He’s too old and un-hip for the teens, too out-of-touch and obtuse for anyone his age and just too plain irritating to anyone his parents age.

Bah! I’ve wasted enough time on this hack already.
Goodbye Mike, we hardly knew ye! Thank Christ!

Note: You know, there was a link attached to the words “gets the boot” on this article leading to the full story on Bullard’s head-rolling, but of course, the article was moved somewhere else on Global’s “website”. I cringe to even call it a “website” for such a sad, incompetent, hellaciously slow and lacklustre piece of shit, but well, there ya have it folks.

Also, recently (summer, 2005) there was another article in NOW magazine regarding further awful homegrown “entertainment”, “*Train 48*”.
You can read this hilarious commentary “here“.

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