The more I see of this convention on TV and all the praise everyone is heaping on the Chosen One (i.e, Barack Obama) the more I am reminded of a parody that SCTV did in an episode of one of their shows. It was a parody of a well known Canadian game show that was popular in the 60s and that all Canadians are familiar with. Called "Front Page Challenge", it consisted of a panel of 4 alleged celebrities, along with the MC, who used to try and identify a mystery guest and the news story associated with him
However, because they were Canadian, the word celebrity is used with a huge grain of salt. And that was the point of the parody because there was always alot of fanfare on the real show surrounding the so- called celebrities and their introduction to the audience...but they weren't really famous and hadn't done all that much. In reality, they would just trying to be like Americans on American game shows...but no real American stars would ever come up to Canada and be on that stupid CBC show so Canadians had to settle for the home- grown variety, which was pretty pathetic. So in the SCTV parody, at that point in the show in which the celebrities are introduced and their useless resumes were given out by the announcer, the MC, played by Joe Flagherty, would say: "Yes, but what have you done?" And he'd keep repeating that line throughout the show as each of the celebrities would try and pretend that they were actually somebodies..."yes, but what have you done?" (at one point the celebrity played by Andrea Martin said "I've just come back from Charlottetown where I played 'Ann' in 'Ann of Green Gables'!). Well, anyway, with all this praise being heaped upon Obama at this convention the thought keeps coming to mind (in the voice of Joe Flagherty): "Yes, but what have you done?" Perhaps Sal can enlighten me...
