Nonsense Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Can you imagine how pissed off a high school English student in the 70s would feel if their teacher assigned them to read a book titled “Nonsense”? Mumbo Jumbo is a book that practically begs the reader to be frustrated with it. It is filled with pictures that have little to no relation to what’s happening in the book, a second chapter 52, and plenty of moments of near-deus-ex-machina in little disguise. It's only a novel in the sense that between side stories and meals of non-poisonous snakes it has words on a page that resemble a plot. I hope it is clear that this book annoys me. But I think that we’re all reading Mumbo Jumbo wrong — it was a TV show this whole time! Let me explain. Fade in from black. New Orleans, 1920s. The mayor is staying late for work. The telephone rings. The mayor’s presence is required at the church. Jes Grew has come alive. Oh dear. [THEME MUSIC PLAYS] [OPENING CREDITS ROLL] Narrator: With the astonishing rapidity of Booker T. Wa...