Comedy Iridium while I wait.

Okay, as I type this they're airing Skyblast the gigundo fireworks display after the Pirates on Fox Sports Pittsburgh. Now to make this extra special they've brought in a band, one that can handle multiple genres. They've brought in Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Now please note, for those of you not aware, everything Me First and Gimme Gimmes do comes out a good bit punk, maybe a little thrash metal, maybe a little ska. None of which ever really entered Pittsburgh's airspace. So they're firing off the fireworks, and then suddenly we cut away to one of the jumbotron between-inning bits asking the Pirates about music. Eventually something a Pirate mentions hits the Gimmes repertory, and they play it. Pirate fans are clearly not prepared for this The first one goes off as a fairly straight opening to Stairway to Heaven, which then accelerates, leaving the audience behind. Now I realize the crowd is not being miked in this, but you can tell. Michael Palin, once describing his appearance on the Tonight Show before Monty Python made it big, described the audience response as having not merely the silence, but "silence then polite applause tinged with fear". This is exactly what I'm seeing and hearing before the next round of fireworks. I'm watching at home realizing others need to know of this. The second cycle comes through, and they do REO Speedwagon. The crowd response seems to be "What did REO Speedwagon ever do to deserve this?" My response, "well whatever it was they've been asking for it for a while." Third cycle, what do you sing at Karaoke? We find out Jack Wilson's answer is Hello by Lionel Richie, which is gonna scar for a while, but they play Sweet Caroline. Goes over about as well as you'd expect not done in Boston. Next we get them asking "what's on your iPod?", leading to Summertime (Doin' Time) by Sublime, which leads to a their live version of Gershwin, followed by the Sublime version on the speakers. The crowd is stunned. Apparently their plan for this was to make the target demographic for this event ME. Shame I'm not there.

Oh god, they just got booed after their version of Rocket Man. You know if they went into Sweet Home Alabama, we might actually have a lynching at second base. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Ruin Johnny's Baseball Game. Somebody in the promotion department's goin' down.