Ok, who here hates Comcast? Probably a lot of you are raising your hands. If you've never seen this video, take a look. We all kosher now? (I love Youtube.) Now I'm sure that video only enhances your feelings about Comcast. If you've had Adelphia then you know this just as well since Comcast owned it...well, right before Comcast itself got bought out by Time Warner. I haven't had to deal with Time Warner yet save for upgrading to the HD package so besides that five minute call I can't really tell you how the new customer service team is different if at all.

Why do I mention this? Well, I feel it's only American of me to let you in on a little secret. Maybe it's not a secret to some but to many others, for whatever reason, this may be a breath of fresh air. I've found a way you can pay as little as 60% of your current bill. It's really quite simple.

Threaten them.

Yup, threaten Comcast. Mmmmaybe I should specify. I know you'd like to threaten asphyxiation by way of your member into their gullet but that might not be legal. What I mean by "threaten" is to simply say this, "I would like to cancel my service because I cannot afford to pay it anymore."

Boom. Done.

My roommate and I decided this had to be done. I mean, our faberge egg dependency won't pay for itself. Don't tell anyone I told you that. I may have to kill you. But anyway, I told Brody he had to call up Comcast and let them know we weren't going to get taken by the short 'n curlies anymore. Brody called up and told the bastards we were going to switch to DirecTV because we couldn't afford the service anymore. We are getting regular cable plus HBO and Showtime plus the HD package plus broadband internet. This comes to about $130 a month. That's outrageous. The customer service rep asked Brody to hold on for a second while he "tried to see what he could do." About five minutes later he came back and said that after taxes he could bring our bill down to...get this...$87 and change effective immediately.

We should just saved over $50 a month because Brody threatened to end our service. Comcast is so scared of customers switching to dish networks that they will automatically lower your bill from the arbitrarily high cost to nearly half! I haven't been this thrilled since I was 10 and figured out what a 69 really was well after the fact that I had accused a girl of doing it religiously. Oh to be 10 again. That poor, poor girl. Maybe I should write her a note.

So stick it to the man. They overcharge everyone with their premier packages and what not and all we're left to do is say, "There are no other cable providers and I don't want to go to dish so I guess I'm screwed." Nope, not anymore, Jack. (Please insert whatever your actual name is there.) Call up Comcast and threaten to cancel your service and they'll "see what they can do." If they don't offer to charge you substantially less, tell them they're full of shit and that CPunch will come to their offices and defecate all over their keyboards (I hear they don't like that). If enough of you do this they'll finally learn not to sodomize us with "installation fees." We'll install our boot up their ass and take back our hard earned cash. Power to the people. See Ma, I can use my powers for good.