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...here's a reality check. The Finnish remailer could not have been used, since anon.penet.fi no longer transmits binary image files. Jerry Russell, who runs Florida Online and who looked into the case, says he figures the whole thing was a relatively simple prank called a sendmail spoof, in which the prankster posts a message with a phony return address. He says the Willowick police never produced a copy of the posting for him so that he could unravel the tangle for them. Indeed, when the policeman called, "he didn't really understand what he was trying to tell...
...declaration which screams out 'I will not wallow in conformity'" to the bad-boy "Do the Dew" ads for Mountain Dew. These ads are aimed squarely at Carvey's "countercultural" audience, as he's called it--not coincidentally, Mountain Dew is his next title sponsor. Rather than spoof an advertising form that really doesn't exist anymore, Carvey might find more stinging satiric subject matter in ads that shamelessly flatter his audience, telling them they're too hip to be sold...
Although most of the evening was comprised of song and dance, SAA also performed a skit spoof of the movie "Forrest Gump...
...Network's HA!, it was a cable network in search of an identity. Its mix of anonymous stand-up comics telling jokes about gender wars over toothpaste caps, reruns of old sitcoms like McHale's Navy, and a smattering of new programs (like Sports Monster, an unfunny spoof of sports wrap-up shows) was hardly exciting. Comedy Central should have been hip and edgy--a Seattle to the broadcast networks' Des Moines. Instead it fell Grainbelt flat...
Lately, however, Comedy Central has moved beyond lame one-liners and developed a series of signature hits. Among them: Bill Maher's irreverent roundtable Politically Incorrect (whose ratings have climbed 40% in the past year); Mystery Science Theater 3000, the perennially inventive spoof of bad old movies; and the endlessly rerun cult favorite from Britain, Absolutely Fabulous. Riding such successes, Comedy Central has tripled its subscriber count, to 36 million households, and today it reaches a higher proportion of affluent, educated, 18-to-49-year-old viewers than any other network on broadcast or cable...