Being a celebrity can KILL YOU!

Discovery Channel has a great show called The Deadliest Catch. It is the story about crab fisherman, and how this occupation is deemed one of the most dangerous on this blue planet. Entertaining as hell, it's a soap opera on the high seas for men.

Well Discovery, better check your homework, fire that pimple-faced intern, or at least tune in to Mary Hart!

Helloooooo.....Internet anyone? Headlines? TMZ.com? Entertainment Weekly? People Magazine? I'm telling you, the last two weeks have been absolutely brutal for anyone remotely famous. Let's recap:

David Carradine - dead
Ed McMahon - dead
Farah Fawcett - dead
Michael Jackson - dead (but debatable - check your local grocery clerks for new hires)
Karl Malden - dead
Billy Mays - dead
Martin Streek - dead (okay, he's small 'c' celeb, but in the Canadian alternative radio world, he was a god to many)

So I am imploring Discovery Channel to rethink (and perhaps, retool) it's showcase line-up, and either stop falsely promoting this crab-fishing tomfoolery as 'dangerous', or start a new show about the precarious occupation of being famous to millions around the world (or 3000, in the case of Streek).

By the way, for the benefit of my brother-in-law, who may or may not read this blog, a friendly reminder.

John Candy - still dead. (don't you just love inside jokes?)