Today marks a dark day in our Earthly world. Perhaps unwittingly, or with a purposeful, apocalyptic agenda in mind, CBS has gone and fulfilled the fifth prophecy of Revelations, the one that reads: "And on the eve of the Sabbath, a darkness will be unleashed upon the eyes of the world. That darkness will have a face, and a chin beard, and probably be wearing a backward baseball cap, and its method of destruction will come in the form of a 23 minute metafictional situational comedy on that network all the elders of the world watch."
Indeed, signaling our impending doom, CBS has picked up a sitcom featuring Limp Bizkit frontman, occasional film director, and noted Nookie-enthusiast Fred Durst. Durst will star in the half-hour show, which sees him essentially playing a married version of himself, who finds the balancing act of managing a family and also being a successful rock star--successful financially, if not artistically, presumably--almost too difficult to bear.
In a move guaranteed to stop any and all snarky bloggers dead in their tracks, the show is actually titled "Douchebag," thus acknowledging that Durst is very much aware of his own self-image, and instead of trying to cater to us, the sarcastic minority, is simply reveling in his own douchebaggery for fun and profit and also probably nookie or something.
Between this announcement and the recent news that Snoop Dogg would also be getting his own sitcom on NBC, all that's really left is for FOX to take things to their logical conclusion and take Vulture's suggestion of reaching out to the Insane Clown Posse for a sitcom of their own. What would it be about? I envision a premise in which they find themselves forced to raise a non-Juggalo child, because of hilarious circumstances involving a dead mother. Also, Violent J inherits a hotel from his dead uncle, and Shaggy 2 Dope is best friends with an alien ghost that only he can see. And Rowdy Roddy Piper is their crazy, pussyhound neighbor. And let's just throw Bronson Pinchot in there somewhere too, because hey, why not?
Horrible news.
Does everyone have to have a sitcom these days? I mean it seems like these networks are just throwing their money everywhere, regardless of whether or not it's worth it.
I laughed at the part about him being successful.
God help us all.
Can't be any worse than Whitney.
@zombiesatemycereal said:
That seems like an amazing feat. If anyone can do it, it's Fred Durst.
Ooh, more TV to ignore.
More like Fred Durst, indicating where is career is going.
Fred Durst? Has that guy been relevant at all since the late 90s?
I like to think that a year ago, Fred Durst was washing the window on the car of a CBS exec that was stopped at the light when the exec said "With NBC so far down the crapper I feel the need to prove we can get away with doing anything. Hey hobo cleaning my window, would you like a tv show?" Fred Durst said "Wow! I can't believe you recognized me as Fred Durst." The exec then said "Who?"
A sitcom starring Fred Durst? I can't wait to not see it!
haha God damn, Alex, you are the man. "Noted Nookie-enthusiast" got me.
I can't believe they got away with having "Douchebag" as the title of the show. Surely that will be changed after focus testing with a bunch of soccer moms, right?
This feels like it would be one of those tvs shows in GTA4 you could watch in your safehouse except then it would be funny but this is horrible damn.
Fred Durst is all "Now I know ya'll be lovin this shit right here!", and I'm like "Nah."
KEEP ROLLIN', ROLLIN', ROLLIN', ROLLIN', WHAT?!?!?!
Meh just ignore this crap, it's not the end of the freaking world
I once met a guy who claimed to be Fred Durst's assistant. He came up to me in a karaoke bar and showed me pictures of the two of them fishing. Then he got up on stage and sang My Generation. Only, it was a censored version on account of there being kids there so he was singing lyrics like "Don't talk poop about my generation". It was surreal.