As none of you know, because no-one actually reads this blog, there is a brand new sitcom starting this fall called "Outsourced". The premise is a lower-level manager of a call center is told that his entire department is being 'laid off' and their jobs will be outsourced to India. His only chance at continued employment is to travel to India and train the Indians who will replace his former co-workers.
Now, I don't mind telling you that I am having a hard time typing this as I wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes just from reading the premise. I mean that is just hysterically fucking funny, right? People lose their jobs and then one dumb schmuck has to travel half way around the world just to try and keep his...Hahahahahahaha!!!! Stop! STOP!!! I can't take much more!!
Okay, maybe not. What, exactly, is supposed to be so funny? The fact that all of those jobs went overseas? Or maybe that because the only way the white dude keeps his job is to go to India? Or maybe it's funny to laugh at the poor bastards being paid $1/day to take those US jobs in the first place, or maybe it's just really fucking hysterical to listen to people with accents use Americanised names...
Me? I'm having a hard time understanding why anyone wouldn't see that as being mind-blowingly funny, but then again I just sent a script to Hollywood for a new comedy series called "Foreclosed". It stars a cast of very rich bankers that each week get to fuck over a poor family that can no longer afford their home, and the side-splittingly funny situations that ensue as the newly homeless family struggles to survive out on the streets...I think I have a real shot of having that picked up for a full season, probably by Fox...
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