Fake news website Humor Volcano reports the sordid details
Here’s a condensed version of my article on Humor Volcano:
SHADY DEPTHS, CA – Wave Betterman, the immensely popular host of television’s raunchiest show, American Scumbag, stunned his national audience at the end of last night’s program by announcing that he had just been fired for egregious behavior. While choking back tears, Betterman closed the show by admitting that he had blatantly failed to conduct himself up to Scumbag standards.
Scumbag producer Jack Splatt commented afterward, “Betterman, of all people, knows very well what Scumbag means. Adultery, rape, bribes, violence, lies, corruption, and more from politicians, celebrities, clergy, and business leaders, all broadcast in graphic detail. And we’ve always delivered. Until Betterman on Saturday, that is.”
When pressed for details, Splatt revealed that Betterman, disturbingly, had a long history of aberrant behavior, of doing the right thing, of acting morally and honestly. “What if everybody did that? We wouldn’t have a show. Scumbag lives by its ratings.”
During the Scumbag taping Saturday night in Miami Beach, Betterman was interviewing six scantily clad young women in a hot tub whom he thought were there to entice a local celebrity into a sex orgy. As Wave, sharply dressed in his Armani business suit, questioned them from the tub’s exterior, the ladies playfully tossed their tops aside and invited him to join them for a little underwater hanky-panky before the celeb arrived. But Betterman, married for ten years and the father of three little girls, to everyone’s complete shock and disappointment, declined to jump in. He instead claimed to have developed a migraine headache and said he couldn’t go on. Although he hadn’t known it, Betterman was actually the celebrity target that evening. However, he hadn’t taken the bait to become a Scumbag low-life sleaze-bucket superstar himself. That was the final straw.
So last night, American Scumbag high honchos unceremoniously axed Betterman for conduct detrimental to the show as the hot tub clip aired nationwide. Faced with the damning evidence, during the show’s live wrap-up immediately afterward, the visibly shaken Betterman took full blame for his firing, admitting that his actions did not live up to the utter depravity demanded on Scumbag.
Read the full Scumbag TV Host article here.