"The Worst TV Shows in History...and Other Things I Wrote"

[Pink Freud]

That's the subtitle of a new book --- "It Seemed Like a Bad Idea At the Time" --- by alleged comedy writer Bruce Vilanch, who freely discusses the many bombs he's frequently been a big part of, including too many bad Oscar shows.: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-a ... t-the-time

In the dying days of NBC's "Midnight Special", when the network geniuses thought wee-hours viewers wanted to hear see and panel discussions instead of actual music, Bruce Vilanch was introduced to TV audiences on one 1980 episode, resembling a morbidly obese, effeminate dwarf Muppet with Sally Jesse Raphael's glasses, charged with making the discussions funny.

They were not, as viewers wondered, "Who's the freak?". He never returned.

But he knows his place in the entertainment pantheon and can laugh at himself. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-a ... t-the-time