I was telling Pio Ferro once that The Carmen Call made me want to plunge knitting needles into my ears. He concurred but said, “The audience just eats that shit up.”
Ugh.
We all have those “fingernails on a chalkboard” bits. Two of my worst were characters done by morning guys.
Every market has that suburb or community that everyone makes fun of. Even people who live there make fun of it…but also qualify it by reminding you that they live “in the good part of Concord.” In Charlotte? It’s Gastonia. So the new morning guy at Kiss 102 was savvy enough to figure that out but wasn’t savvy enough to stop himself from creating “Gastonia Gus.”