George "announce": "As the sun comes up over the Brambles [place in Central Park where gay guys meet to have sex] steam rises from the hot asshole of.... " or something like that. No. 1 not remotely funny [who wrote it, Fred?], No. 2 perpetrates the freakishness [to Howard, ok, I admit it, to me too.. ] of anal sex between men; No. 3 demeans George who is better than this.... OK he does it willingly every time... still not funny at all... Oh well, I have made this complaint in various forms four of five times now... I used to love the beginning of the show when Howard and Robin got into something on his mind right away... Now it opens every time with 10 minutes of Wendy or some other whack pack bit [Shuli reduced from would-be stand up guy to exploiter of sadly damaged people like Wendy, Big Foot and Underdog] or a Sal and Richard phony phone call to an ordinary person who is trying to work... or some cock bit like the George announce... I can't listen to it... End of mini-rant..