"The Weather Channel Brings in Lewis Black"

[GreenPartyVoter]

NEW YORK (AP) - The Weather Channel forecast: a high-pressure system of comedy.

The cable channel will feature Lewis Black - known for his rants on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" - in a handful of segments starting Wednesday night.

He's the first in what the Weather Channel hopes is a series of celebrity guests.

"We're going to try a few segments to spice things up a little bit," said Terry Connelly, the network's senior vice president and general manager.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20051108/D8DOIA5O4.html

[moc]

1. Wow! Great news!

My husband and I love Lewis Black. Who would have thought to look for him on the Weather Channel?

Thanks for the heads up!

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. I know. I am glad I stumbled across the article. :^)

[Occulus]

2. A response to Santorum and AccuWeather, maybe?

That's the only legit reason for this I can come up with....

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Maybe.. who knows?

[mark11727]

3. I saw Lewis Black on the Weather Channel last night...

... his segment only lasted a few moments, he sounded like he had a cold, and he basically just said a couple of jokes about Las Vegas, because of the current weather in Nevada.

Great comedian, wrong venue.

Black on Broadway, on the other hand, is a CLASSIC (and available at Borders for only $19.95!).

[stop the bleeding]

6. I wonder if they are going to muzzle him on his political satire

That should make the weather a little more interesting

[LeftHander]

7. Weather Channel will go the way of MTV....

Music Television minus actual music.

The Weather Channel minus "weather" will be filled with cartoons, gameshows, and celebrity news and reality shows.

[MuseRider]

8. That is probably true.

Why is it that our citizenry can't just take in information? Does everything have to titillate?

[CatholicEdHead]

11. Exactly what I thought

The ever-repeated Storm Stories gets old. Get back to the old model of all weather, all the time 24/7. Some corporate hack is trying to "diversify" their prodcut base and it will backfire.

Most of cable shows do not follow what channel they are on. They overlap quite a bit.

[aden_nak]

9. Funny, since he spends so much time cursing at the Weather Channel.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Hadn't thought of that. *l*

[ReadTomPaine]

12. I like Lewis, wonder how he'll fare on TWC. Interesting.