WAKING UP WITH….AL???
A mini-blog for the day

All these people wake up with Al every day. Do you? (photo courtesy NBC)

Am I the only one in the country who is NOT waking up with Al? NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and now The Weather Channel are running commercials featuring everyone from Quentin Tarrantino to Conan O’Brien who are all WAKING UP WITH AL! It must be crowded in there. Al Roker is on The Weather Channel from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. every morning. Everyone with a pulse is “waking up with Al.” Don’t we get enough of Al from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on The Today Show?

Being the rude celebrities of the week that they are, I think NBC ought to capitalize on the Congressman Jim Wilson (R-SC), tennis star Serena Williams and rapper Kanye West craze. How about some commercials with Al and these loud mouth clowns?

If they woke up with Al, what do you think the dialogue would be?

“Congressman Wilson, do you wake up with Al?”
“You lie! MBC lies! Al lies! Obama lies!…and I’m not sorry,” Wilson screams.

“Serena Williams, do you wake up with Al?”
“#$%&*()))_&^%*&! You can take that microphone and ##### ^^%$# ****^^. Al who?” Serena shouts.

“Kanye West, do you wake up with Al?”
“Hell, yes, I wake up with Al…but, wait, Al can do his weather rap later. Beyonce’s music video is the best of all time in the history of the world ever..and she can do the weather better than anybody including Al. And she wakes up with Al, too,” Kanye yells.

So much for civility.

Do YOU wake up with Al?