We keep hearing about how our current anemic economy is “the
new norm”, with people working part-time jobs with no benefits, and everyone is
struggling and in debt. Well, it might make a fun a new TV show using this
idea, but with other issues thrown in too, and call it: The New Norm.
So in The New Norm, a middle-aged man named Norm (played by
Norm MacDonald, maybe {because his name is already Norm}) would have to
completely change his life to get used to the new normal in America. Oh, but
he’d have lots of other problems too, like he used to be an alcoholic or drug
addict, and now he’s clean and sober, and he used to be married, and now he’s
divorced, and he used to be a gainfully employed investment banker who lived in
a big lovely mansion, but now he’s got a demoralizing part-time job and he
lives in a low-rent apartment. And all of these new aspects of his life would
make him into “The New Norm”.
And naturally it would have to be a sitcom of the
laughing-at-the-misfortune-of-others variety. And due to its subject matter
being very real, gritty, and having to include lots of mature situations, it
would have to be made by HBO (or another movie channel) to be true to its
subject matter.
That’s The New Norm:
coming soon to a TV set near you! (Okay, maybe not…)
