Keith is on "The Soup" again!

[Berry Cool]

Caught it last night and forgot to mention it.

This time it was a clip of him interviewing a minister, talking about how it was perfect for Michelle Obama's brother to introduce her as someone who had memorized every episode of The Brady Bunch because this is the kind of social currency we speak in nowadays: we bond with people based on common pop-culture experiences like the dumb TV shows we watched as kids. Keith goes on and on about this, and the minister just kind of sits there with this look on his face like: Huh?!?

It was a classic Keith moment. He was right, but as he sometimes does, he was going on and on about his observation, leaving behind a guest who "just didn't get it."

I should mention that this was preceded by a little intro by Joel McHale about how wonderful Keith is, so it was blatantly obvious that the clip was not meant to slam him at all, more to have fun with how his observation left his guest baffled. And maybe poke a little fun at him for his loquaciousness.

I admit, if I were writing a parody of Countdown, I'd have Keith involved in interchanges like this:

KEITH: Here to discuss with us John McCain's choice of running mate is Richard Wolfe. Good evening, Richard.

RICHARD: Good evening, Keith.

KEITH: Sarah Palin. I'm trying to figure this out. I mean, obviously it's a desperate attempt at a buzzer-beater aimed at the supposedly still-unhappy Hillary supporters, but what else is going on here? A former beauty pageant contestant, a mother of five, a person whose biggest political experience is being mayor of a small town in Alaska and then governor of the state for two years, a PTA hockey mom, a social conservative, a person who wants to drill in ANWR, a person who doesn't believe in global warming--what's going on? Is he figuring that he'll get the ex-beauty-pageant contestant vote, or is this a blatant play to the oil lobby, considering her husband works for BP on top of all this, or is this an attempt to rope in all the anti-choice single-issue voters, or what? And if so, what does that say about McCain's underestimation of the intelligence of the average Republican? And do you think the reaction on the Republican side so far is genuinely positive, or that behind closed doors they're grinding their teeth and saying to each other "How could he have chosen her of all people?" What's your take on all of it?

RICHARD: Huh?!?

:rofl: I love Keith.