The worst show this fall

Wait a second, Entertainment Weekly. Don’t give out the worst show of the year honors yet.

You’re probably thinking, “FrankTV.” Duh. No show could be as bad as a guy trying to ride a one-trick pony for a second season.

However, Mike Huckabee recently received his own television show called “Huckabee.” Producers wanted the title to express, “Simply Mike Huckabee,” but at the same time, didn’t want potheads thinking the Jamie Kennedy Experiment had been resurrected.

The show, whose format is similar to “The Today Show” or “Good Morning America,” airs at 8 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

So what did Huckabee talk about last Sunday on his show?

He took on the only issues he addressed while running – the fair tax, religion and American values. This makes me wonder, will Frank Caliendo have some company riding his one-trick pony toward cancelation?

I gave Mike the benefit of the doubt and tried out his show. After all, what’s most important in judging the show’s quality and predicting its longevity is the depth and coverage of its issues.

How did he do?

Oh boy.

He invited well-known supporter Chuck Norris on to talk about the fair tax, but Chuck decided he’d rather talk about the financial crisis. Normally, I’d say keep your interviewee in line, Mike. But what are you going to do? It’s Chuck Norris.

Instead, what really bothers me here is of all the things Chuck Norris is qualified to speak on (namely, roundhouse kicks and curing cancer with his tears) we have him talking about this. I know Henry Paulson is busy, but surely there’s someone else more qualified than Chuck Norris? The segment ended rather abruptly when Huckabee ran out of time.

Next came “are you smarter than a Congressman?” Maybe this’ll be better.

No, Huckabee just went around the audience and asked them how they’d say what the Congressman said in more politically correct language.
Interestingly though, one man from the audience looked familiar. It was Sherrod Small, a comedian who is also a contributor to the Fox show “Red Eye.”

Again, we’ve got personalities talking politics, not experts. The fact that Fox has its commentators placed into the show’s audience seemed disingenuous.

Lastly, Huckabee gathered some housewives together from the audience (I checked, none of these women were Sherrod in drag) so that they could share what their job entials.

The introduction Huckabee gave to this segment led us to believe that through watching this, we’d see how hard their jobs are, and then come away with respect for working women. But the first woman’s response to the question, “What exactly do you do?” speaks for the whole show.

She said, “I’m mainly a cheerleader for my husband.”

Huckabee tried to glorify this response and change it to mean something else – what he had hoped for from the segment and its guests – and then abruptly went onto the next segment: him playing bass in a live studio band.