Cash Cab, the aftermath
Do you ever wonder what happens to people when their careers wash up? I know I do. I was watching Cash Cab todayand thinking what is Ben Bailey going to do when the show gets cancelled. I mean i know its a good show, my grandfather won’t even pick up the phone when its on, but eventually they will all get cancelled.
The most likely scenario is he will probably go back to doing bit roles like as a security guard on Mad TV (Hopefully though that will be cancelled as well) and sleeping with old women that still remember him from the cash cab.
Then there is every washed up comics dream. Hosting a prime-time gameshow!! I mean Bob Saget, Howie Mandel (all of your shows can’t be as good as Bobby’s world. Sorry its true.), and that terrible guy on my dad is better than your dad. I mean this is the Holy Grail for washed up comics.
But what I am hoping will happen is he will just continue as the show is still on the air (even though it isn’t). It doesn’t have to be in Manhattan, since he probably can’t afford that anymore, but it would have to be some sort of metropolis. If not, the locals would know he’s a faker fast. But really he would just be driving around asking questions from back in his prime as a tv show host. He would probably have abused enough drugs and alcohol by that point to not really remember most of the answers to the questions he’s asking, but really that’s not even the point to him anymore. In my opinion this would be even more fun than the actual show was.
He’s just a sad man driving around a cab, trying to relive the good old days just as many other washed up actors. (Except they don’t have cabs.)