Late-night TV annoys me

I work odd hours. Basically, from the time that most people would be watching TV, starting at maybe 6 or 7 p.m., I'm just kicking into high gear at work. I haven't seen a show in primetime in about two years, so I know very little about various housewives and why they're desperate. Actually, I probably wouldn't watch that show even if I was sitting at home twiddling my thumbs every night from 7 to 10.

My lack of TV exposure has never bothered me before, because I still had the chance to see the best show on television -- the Daily Show. It reruns on Comedy Central at midnight, thank God. In fact, the Daily Show used to run back to back at midnight and again at 12:30, forming a perfect duet of Jon Stewart to put me in a good mood before going to bed.

But now, all that's changed. The gods of Comedy Central have decreed that ex-"Man Show" host Adam Carolla gets to have his own show at 12:30 to take the place of the Daily Show reruns that I've grown so fond of. Unfortunately, this makes the post-12:30 TV landscape a dark, desolate place filled with "Girls Gone Wild" commercials, "Cheers" reruns and infomercials for various acne products.

There's very little to pull me through until 1 a.m., when "Family Guy" reruns on the Cartoon Network. I'm not sure if things would be any better if I had a more normal schedule, but at least I wouldn't have to suffer through watching the "Girls Gone Wild" commercial every 10 minutes. Maybe I should just read a book or something...