A FUNNY THING HAPPENED... NO IT DIDN'T

Air America hasn't renewed the contract of Comedian Marc Maron, co-host of the Morning Sedition show. James Wolcott reckons this is the result of "dunderheaded mismanagement on the part of Air America":

Word is that Air America major supremo Danny Goldberg doesn't like the show, doesn't like Marc as an on-air personality, doesn't "get" Marc's or the show's humor, and wants to crumple the program up into a wastepaper ball and chuck it into the basket.

Now Danny Goldberg may have many fine qualities. I sort of liked the book he did a bit back about how the Democrats had lost youth appeal. But he's not a radio guy, and if he can't find the funny in Marc, Lawton Smalls, and Sammy the Stem Cell, he needs to hire a psychic detective to locate his missing sense of humor.

Yeah, like Wolcott knows anything about humour. Truth is, Maron isn't funny, not intentionally anyway.