Television Conspiracies

If we accept the theory of a higher power of executives here on earth influences the world with a plan, it follows that prime time and late night TV is a key factor in setting the stage and direction of our nation.  TV doesn't reflect society - it guides it.  It gives us hope, and teaches us what is acceptable, desirable, and worth risking.  It teaches us sex education, crime awareness and even potential sickness we might have if our fingers tingle.

Television also tells us what to wear, when to marry, and why.  It teaches us babies are worth the hassle, and alcohol, gambling, and drugs almost always end in failure.

We see stars pretend acting out a model for society, and we also see actors and others appearing as real people on talk shows and entertainment news shows.  We pay attention to what they say, wear, and do. 

Late night talk shows have been a TV staple for decades, showing us the actors and authors we know on screen, but as humans - so we trust them even more.

ARSENEO HALL - THE TONIGHT SHOW

Conspiracy theories are easy to spot in late night TV. You can almost listen to the spoken words, and interpret them differently if you choose to believe that all reality TV is as sculpted and scripted as soap operas or CSI episodes.  If Hollywood is an engine, then different interpretations arise.  Late Night TV's purpose becomes more clear.  It is a tool.

One night, I noticed Jay using odd wording when talking about the night's guest line up.  Jay used the phrase "Arsenio Hall is on his way out" as first words of the star's introduction.  One would assume he meant it as; on his way out from backstage to front-stage, but the wording can also inferred Hall is a has-been.  At the time this interview aired, Arsenio was a somewhat has-been entertainer who actually IS out... He hadn't been a big name in Hollywood for years.  The odd part of the show that followed, was how much freedom and reign he was given for the rest of the show.

Arseno didn't just sit in for one segment like a normal Tonight Show guest.  He was back for extra segments, and even stayed on stage during the stupid cooking segment, and musical guest.  He performed the entire show... poorly.  Were his extra innings offered as an apology for the stupid opening show wordings?  Hmmm... makes you think.   It seemed to be a bit excessive exposure.

Conspiracy theories however wouldn't accept that it wasn't an on purpose, fully intentional mater plan.  We can easily come up with deeper meaning for Arsenio's extended appearance.

• "Hollywood safe" black role models are harder to find.  Black youth is somewhat scary to the older generation, and Arseneo is an established safe black male.  The nation needs to lessen it's fear of the black men for the 2008 Presidential election, and we need to see a lot more safe, friendly black males on late night TV.  The current batch of black men in the news is dangerously more "gang-urban" related, and not "old people friendly"
  
• Arsenio's Tonight Show "bits" were so rehearsed, maybe he is being used as a POP culture figurehead they can manipulate easily.  He is so desperate for attention and a return to fame, he may do what they ask.
  
• In an attempt to be more hip, and appeal to a younger crowd who may not remember his prime, Arsenio did a few standard cocaine jokes.  His humour wavers from safe and polite when he and Leno setup and deliver a number of insult jokes about midgets, and then later in his act, he even uses the word nigger.
  
• In later segments, Arseneo actually appeared drug or stoned.  Jay didn't seem to mind at all.  He cut in and delivered punchlines out of place during the other guest segments.
   
• During the segments, Arsenio more than once uses the term "co-sign".  To me, that phrase first appeared on CBS television's BIG BROTHER.  I often wondered if CBS made up that expression during BIG BROTHER to track it's use across Amerioca, or if the phrase was just one the BIG BROTHER contestants had always used.  On the show, it was started by a back woman, and now here, a year or more later, Arsenio is bringing it back.
  
• Arsenio mentioned he has gay rumours in Hollywood.  Gay is in.  Prime time has more mentions of the word this decade than ever before.  It is definitely on it's way to a higher level of future acceptance.  I wonder if somebody counts the number of gay mentions.
  
• During the cooking segment, and almost unknown woman seems to have been provided solely to be the straight woman in comedy bits between Jay and Arsenio.  Why doesn't she feel used.  Nobody knows who she is, or cares.  It was yet another Arseneo segment.  If this isn't a conspiracy, why wouldn't she be a little more upset he hijacked her whole onscreen time.