There is nothing funny about Sub for Santa charities. Or is there? This is a question The Responsible One and I asked while reading a few donation requests posted by a small town newspaper. Some of the headlines, written to grab the reader’s attention and heart/purse strings, had us grabbing our sides as we were giggling. We began to read one that sounded exactly like the script of a cheesy holiday movie trailer. We couldn’t help but think of locations, set designs, camera angles and really amazing fade to black moments.
As we were doubled over in my office a coworker stopped in to see what was so funny. “Do you ever read the Sub for Santa articles?” I asked him. “Yes, last week’s was really sad. Breaks my heart,” he replied. We told him about the one we were currently reading and shared our movie trailer idea. He laughed a little bit and then left my office. “We’ll definitely need to get a laugh track,” I advised The Responsible One. “I don’t see why others don’t see the humor,” she replied.
“They haven’t worked in the business long enough. Which reminds me, I’m thinking about doing a show called ‘Why I’m Such an Asshole,'” I told her. “I like it. How long have you been thinking about this?” she asked. “Just started thinking about it right now,” I replied and added, “With our friends, I figure we could air a show every day for at least two years.” It was about this time that we contacted ROFL with a question about a project. The Responsible One was razzing him about deadlines and he did his infamous, “One more thing,” and then hung up on us. “Yet one more guest,” I told her, then called ROFL again and invited him to be on the show.