Is Rove all we got? (Part Two)

Daily Telegraph today reports that tickets to the new season of Rove Live were sold out in a matter of hours. Can you believe this? There are actually people out there who like Rove enough to want to see him in the unfunny flesh. Not only that, there are so many that it sells out in hours. I guess the recent lull in his ratings (he was being firmly beaten by 9's import Cold Case weekly) hasn't meant a dent in his popularity.

Continuing on from a theme I discussed in a previous post, I wonder if Rove would actually be this popular if there were other alternatives? Would Rove be Channel 10's golden boy, a Gold Logie winner, and a pin-up for lamewads who repeat his catchphrases ad nauseum, if our country had more modern day Bert Newtons and Graeme Kennedys? Heck, would he be this popular if Shaun Micallef was given enough time to find his own niche? The answer is, of course, no. If more funny people were acutally on TV, Rove would be exposed for the completely unfunny hack wankfest that he is.