BEFORE anything else, let me just park this:
Satire – the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues and it is also a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals.
And its showtime folks!
In what could only be described as an unprecedented and radical, not to mention risky move in the annals of Philippine noontime television shows, the producers of that longest running mind-numbing show Eat Bulaga announced a complete overhauling of the show’s regular format.
No folks, the producers of Eat Bulaga did not just realize that their show has been creating “dumb and dumber” natives (they know that already), they just decided to go with the latest trend now affecting the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon.”
And the “flavour of the month” and the newest “hero” of the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” is of course that sailor pretending to be a soldier; yep, the one with the puti itlog, Antonio Trillanes IV.
Maybe “hero” is too much because according to the “playbook” of the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” to be a “hero” one must die first and a violent public death is de rigour.
Unless they have a sacada from Hacienda Luisita shot Trillanes preferably in the tarmac of the Manila International Airport and dragged his bloody corpse all over Metro Manila in a huge public spectacle, then “Sonnyboy” is not a full-fledged “yellow ribbon hero.”
If that happens then “Sonnyboy” is instantly a “hero”, of course not in the same level of that revered Malaysian Marcial Bonifacio who was also shot in the tarmac of the Manila International Airport.
Alive at best, “Sonnyboy” is just a clown or court jester meant to entertain the bored masses.
So what was that unprecedented perhaps “earth-shaking “upheaval in Eat Bulaga?
If by next week a warrant of arrest for “Sonnyboy” was issued and Police Chief Inspector Jovie Espendido leads the arresting team then maybe the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” might get their wish and have the “hero” in the mould of Marcial Bonifacio they have praying to high heavens for.
The supposedly unprecedented move of the producers of Eat Bulaga will become moot and academic if that happens.
On a plus side for the “devotees” their prayers are not for naught; all those pray overs and running in circles of Fr. Robert Reyes plus those pastoral letters of Archbishops Tagle and Villegas worked…God listened to them and lo and behold a second coming!
But if “Sonnyboy” is still alive and hold up in the Senate by next week then the producers of Eat Bulaga goes ahead with their move.
It will finally come to pass that “Tito, Vic and Joey” transforms into “Tito, Vic and Joey plus Sonny.”
Antonio Trillanes IV aka “Sonny” becomes the fourth member of “Tito, Vic and Joey” radically changing the trio of comedians into a quartet of comedians: “Tito, Vic and Joey plus Sonny.”
With that Eat Bulaga will move and broadcast live from the Senate building and no longer from that half a billion spanking new studio in Cainta, Rizal. Of course there is no truth to the rumor that Eat Bulaga will transfer from GMA TV Network to ABS-CBN.
And why will Eat Bulaga transfer to ABS-CBN when everyone knows their franchise renewal in Congress will not be approved not because of politics but because not a single congressman was even considered to be the fourth comedian in the “Tito, Vic and Joey” triumvirate.
Just plain and simple showbiz rivalry and nothing to do with politics.
And in another unprecedented move the producers of Eat Bulaga announced they will no longer continue nor support much less have as guest that very popular love team duo of Maine Mendoza and Alden Richards aka “Aldub”.
Again there was nothing kinky or bizarre in this move; it was just a corporate decision whatever that means.
With the advent of “Tito, Vic and Joey plus Sonny” it is expected that a new love team is in the offing.
Thus we have “Sonny and Gary”, a poor imitation and plagiarized version of that popular television sitcom in the ‘90s, “Will and Grace”.
Incidentally, if you’re not familiar with the television sitcom “Will and Grace” then moi is not surprised, rather expected it after all; “you’re nothing but a second rate copycat.”
Simply put, you’re just a trendy, naïve social climber.
“Sonny and Gary” is, and you guessed it right, Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV and Gary Alejano, the newest love team in town.
So folks, don’t be onion-skinned. Moi is just tickling your funny bone and have a good laugh; it does wonders for your health. (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
