Getting close to the end of Grand Theft Auto Vice City (or at least the end of the storyline, not the end of the game), and as things are getting more and more repitious, I've been trying to listen to the in game radio stations more. Each have about an hour of recording and most are pretty funny...

The one that stands out is VCPR, or Vice City Public Radio. I know it's a game and they're trying to be funny, but does this stuff really happen? The main focus of the station is a variety of debates between a pastor who wants to build a statue of himself, a nudist ('nuff said), the mayor of Vice City who is proud that weather has been 15% better since he has been in office, and a mother who is very very far from normal. They're discussing issues like morality and laws and amusement parks, but most of the time end up going off on tangents about their individual lives... And then every once in awhile you get a commercial that begs and pleads for donations to keep the radio alive. Obviously, far fetched but very funny. ;)

My point? They must have gotten the idea to do this from somewhere. Why does Saturday Night Live do so well??? Because they mock out real life events. Is this what Rockstar is doing with GTA and VCPR??? If I could find public radio station that was as funny as this VCPR was, but tackling real life issues using funny people, they might just get another viewer...

Wait a minute... Isn't this what Howard Stern does???