BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL!
The Science Guy is back!

The Andy Kaufman of the science world is back. Bill Nye, the rubber-faced engineer whose television series for kids was equal parts lesson and stand-up comedy, returns to the small screen April 3. Whereas Bill Nye the Science Guy introduced elementary scientific concepts to elementary school viewers, The Eyes of Nye takes on hard-hitting adult topics like addiction, cloning, and climate change. The show airs on local public television stations (www.eyesofnye.org). But Nye's more serious avocation hasn't compromised his zany edge.

I'm surprised I'm as excited as I am about this. Bill Nye's show was pretty darn good when I was in elementary school and junior high, and despite the fact that I knew most of the stuff being shown, I still managed to get something out of the show. I'm hoping that this new Eyes of Nye will offer more of the same. The interview above is pretty good, if short. I happen to really like the following quote from Bill, on how can he make science funny:

How can you not make [science] funny? Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

I wholeheartedly agree. I don't believe that there's anything so tragic that you can't have a laugh about it at some time or another. It might take a while to find the humor in some of the doozies, but it's there.

(Incidentally, doesn't the BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! from the Bill Nye The Science Guy theme song remind you of a porn soundtrack? "Get ready ladies, it's the Scientist of LOOOOOVE! BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! Oh yeah!")  ¶ 3:24 p.m.