NBC Gives Two Primetime Hours to Viacom's The Love Guru, But Why?

If you are NBC-Universal, why the hell do you give two primetime hours over to Mike Myers to promote his new Paramount movie that is opening against your big Summer comedy, Get Smart?

Seriously, who thought that it was a good idea? Anyone raising their hands?

Fire them!!!

Never in my life seen something so asinine as this. And worse, the wrap around to the old old SNL Mike Myers sketches (so old you could see the differences in the videotape) with the newer stars of the show, Armisen and Wiig, those moments just further demonstrated that Mike Myers has isolated himself over the last few years.

Isolation breeds alienation on both the part of the performer and the audience, not to mention some very hard feelings from the audience that he left his wife during all this as well, a wife whose mother he co-opted and turned into a comedy character for his fun and profit.

And the movie he's promoting has Jessica Alba. In a comedy. You have to be able to act to act in a comedy, you just can't look good. I can't see this working.

One more thing, how many of the motion pictures in which Justin Timberlake has appeared have actually turned a profit? Besides Shrek.

I have a feeling that those two hours on NBC last night will be for naught. If I go to see anything at all this weekend, it's Get Smart.

And frankly, since he left Robin (after selling her mother's persona for profit, I find that so distasteful) I might not be seeing this guy's movies anymore.