I Hate All "Zoo Crew" Radio

[Gail Simone]

Why does this stuff universally suck? Why are these people criminally unfunny?

If your morning radio station has two djs who do prank phone calls and one is vaguely named after a hillbilly animal slang term, THEY SUCK.

[Grazzt]

Captain Carrot should pound on the people who tarnish the good name of the Zoo Crew.

[Spiffy]

You've focused in on something I've felt for decades. Any radio show with a "Morning Zoo" (or Evening Zoo or Afternoon Zoo or Weekend Zoo) is automatically crap. They're the gutter dwellers of radio. Of all Entertainment, really.

The elements are always the same. There's a lead DJ (occasionally two) who speaks in a Guy Radio voice, but adds "wacky" overtones and presses a button on his dashboard a lot for annoying sound effects. There's always a female traffic reporter, who they make lascivious remarks about, and usually a male "news guy" who they mercilessly make fun of. There are interns who they get on air and use for cannon fodder for their "humor", and they give away concert tickets to the 900th row of a concert of whatever lame act is in town (with a "backstage all access pass" which I bet means you shake a hand and get shuffled to the side, where you are babysat by some P.R. assistant until you are guided back to your 900th row seat).

[DoctorDoom]

I have used to lsiten to Z100 in the morning. Now I haven't listened to that stuff in over two years.

(Occasionally I'll listen to WFAN Sports radio in the morning)

[bert]

Originally Posted by Gail Simone

Why does this stuff universally suck? Why are these people criminally unfunny?

If your morning radio station has two djs who do prank phone calls and one is vaguely named after a hillbilly animal slang term, THEY SUCK.

as long as they don't ask

"where my gays at?"


I don't see the problem.

[mgs]

lol! Gail, this is like the third thread you've posted about this subject. I get it, you hate these types of shows, so why do you keep listening?

[Sean Walsh]

Originally Posted by Gail Simone

Why does this stuff universally suck? Why are these people criminally unfunny?

Because it's "safe comedy." They don't want to get in trouble - as the FCC is MUCH harsher on "offensive" radio than they are in most other mediums - so they play it safe and try not to offend the audience and anyone.

It's the underlying reason why Stern left for satellite radio. He and guys like Opie & Anthony (who despise this kind of radio and devote their Octobers to just making fun of them) have thrived there with virtually no restraints on language or content.

BTW - did you know that prank calls are pretty much all staged now? They have to get the peoples' permission to air it - and in recent years it's usually beforehand more than afterwards.

[Night Swordsman]

Originally Posted by Gail Simone

Why does this stuff universally suck? Why are these people criminally unfunny?

If your morning radio station has two djs who do prank phone calls and one is vaguely named after a hillbilly animal slang term, THEY SUCK.

Yes. Remember Gail, i live in your state. I get the SAME radio stations or similar enough.

I do listen to radio from time to time, but i do get turned off by banter of the morning DJs.
I would love to hear a couple of DJs who took this format into something better, and even informative. Something that could change people way they looked at morning radio.

[Infra-Man]

"It's time for the Friday morning fart song!"

*dog barks, explosion, old-fashioned car horn that goes "Awoooogah," a woman faking an orgasm*

"Callers, ring the Crazy Butcher and Manic Matt Matthews to help us out!"

*a baritone fellow that says "Oh, yeah!"*

[Shisho]

Not all of them are horrible. Charlotte has an okay one (Ace & TJ, 95.1) that's made me laugh on the few occasions I've listened, and I like that they are very much community-oriented. They have some yearly charities that they really get into. I don't listen to commercial radio very much, though, so I can't give a 100% informed opionion. If I listen to the radio at all in the morning, it's usually NPR. But when I catch it, they're usually funny.

[Night Swordsman]

Originally Posted by Shisho

Not all of them are horrible. Charlotte has an okay one (Ace & TJ, 95.1) that's made me laugh on the few occasions I've listened, and I like that they are very much community-oriented. They have some yearly charities that they really get into. I don't listen to commercial radio very much, though, so I can't give a 100% informed opionion. If I listen to the radio at all in the morning, it's usually NPR. But when I catch it, they're usually funny.

NPR is a great format. But i also enjoy music as well. I would love to see a mix of the two, but i doubt it would go over well with rock/pop music.

[LewisH]

It's like with comics. Avoid things you know you won't like. You aren't the target audience. NPR is on 24/7 and is almost always good.

[Shisho]

Originally Posted by Night Swordsman

NPR is a great format. But i also enjoy music as well. I would love to see a mix of the two, but i doubt it would go over well with rock/pop music.

Maybe it would! I don't know if it's ever been tried before. The reason why I stopped listening to broadcast radio was because of all the commercials. I figured, my iPod is 80 G, what can they offer me but talk talk talk talk? The morning set up on 95.1 here in Charlotte is funny, but it's just not funny enough to keep me listening past all the commercials.

[Redem]

Doesn't Glenn Beck come from one those show?

[Spackling Compound]

Originally Posted by Infra-Man

"It's time for the Friday morning fart song!"

*dog barks, explosion, old-fashioned car horn that goes "Awoooogah," a woman faking an orgasm*

"Callers, ring the Crazy Butcher and Manic Matt Matthews to help us out!"

*a baritone fellow that says "Oh, yeah!"*

Isn't this how almost every YABS Gay-thread ends? But with more cake references and ::hugzzz::.