Time to rename the 'Comedy' Network

Just braved another episode of "Punched Up". As usual, it inspired irritation.

I HATE this network. I HATE this show. I WANT a Comedy channel in Canada that doesn't suck giant elephant dicks when it comes to homegrown content. Is that unreasonable? Canadians are supposed to be funny. Allegedly.

You know in the ads for this show, when the woman looks quizzically over at her partner in "improv crime" (ugh, has me falling asleep already) and, with a certain dryness that I guess is meant at most to evoke not 'funny ha ha' but rather just the right sedative of 'funny hmmmm', says something like, "...So your idea is just a RUSE to make his idea look better?"

Now I don't know about you but I, for one, often find myself thinking how delightful it would be to curl up by the TV with some cocoa at the end of a long, stressful day and be positively tickled by a roundtable discussion on the formulation of - followed by the clever execution of - a cunning, sharp-witted RUSE...

JESUS CHRIST. DO THEY REALLY THINK THAT MAKES THE SHOW SOUND AT ALL APPEALING? To anybody with, like, a PULSE? To anybody outside of the drama department at some sexless Canadian private school?

I mean, "RUSE"? Come on. You put the word "RUSE" in the goddamn commercial? Oh my, doesn't that just crystallize the concept. There's nothing less endearing than an unknowkingly crap show infusing its dumb concept with precious language in an attempt to elevate itself. A smug air of intellectual self-satisfaction is never appealing, especially when your show is, in actuality, no smarter than "Punk'd", and perhaps even less so.

WHO RUNS THIS NETWORK? I want to meet them. I want to see what a person with a complete deficit of humor and marketing acumen looks like.