MY [SHOW] IS BETTER THAN YOUR [SHOW] WE'VE GOT MORE [JOKE]S THAN A [JOKE] CONVENTION SING IT

The long national nightmare is over*: BUTV (or Terriervision 10 or something) is launching*. If you are living on the BU campus, buy a TV, plug it into the cable jack in your wall and get ready for some student-produced television like you've never seen before.

Channel 10 on the BU cable system has gone through some huge changes since I came here two and a half years ago. Sure, now it's a static logo with a tantalizing "Coming soon..." promise, but it wasn't too long ago that the channel was a bouncing cow, an empty black screen and nonexistent because only one of the dorms had cable capabilities (yes, outsiders, most of BU really didn't have cable when I got here). But starting Feb. 22*, we will finally have some real, honest-to-God programming to show you*.

Like what, you ask?

BU Tonight, of course. What is BU Tonight, you ask? It's a late-night comedy show (in format at least; presumably the channel will not only air the show at night as it doesn't really have that much to work with) whose writing staff include little ol' me. For a taste of the show, look at these. Here, you've got a trailer for the show, a sketch from first semester about writing jokes that I had little if anything to do with and another sketch that host Christian and I wrote the bulk of while terribly bitter that an improv group we had opened for was doing so well (regular readers may remember an early version of the script from December). And somehow I got roped into acting in that one too, but what are you gonna do. Anyway, the video is bound to make you laugh and say to yourself "My God, he really is thin, you don't really notice it in real life, but it's all right there on video."

(And while perusing Google Video, now's as good a time as any to see all the other Shrimp Products video selections, and as of 11:00 on Feb. 15, 2006, Scottywood rapping still never gets old, and also I need a lot of help to vault Ridgeway in views; within a day of being up his videos were already completely dominating me to the point where I'm considering changing my descriptions to make people think they're going to watch a five-plus minute video of Pac-Man playing the harmonica)

So anyway, be on the lookout for BU Tonight and whatever the hell else this station's got cooking when it finally launches* on Feb. 23*.

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