On Tuesday, after months in hiding, deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was discovered starring on NBC’s The Playboy Club, the network’s critically-maligned, historically-unsuccessful tale of the infamous Chicago nightclub of the 1960s. The discovery settles a manhunt that has befuddled rebel troops and international Intelligence Agents since April.
CIA officials became aware of Gaddafi’s whereabouts after receiving a tip from a channel-surfing Naperville family who spotted the fallen tyrant on Channel 5, conversing with the show’s protagonist, Nick Dalton (pictured below).
Gaddafi, featured in promotional materials for The Playboy Club
“As a global intelligence community, pinpointing General Gaddafi has been a top priority for many months,” said CIA spokesman Craig O’Brien. “We did consider the possibility that he might be hiding out on American TV, so our agents watched dozens of shitty, mind-numbing shows, ranging from Two Broke Girls to The Real Housewives of Miami. But, despite their committment, none of them could endure a full episode of The Playboy Club. As result, unfortunately, we missed something. Thanks to the alert eyes and poor taste in television of one family, however, we got our man.”
In response to the story, NBC absolved itself of any wrongdoing, claiming that the War Criminal turned actor registered a forged Passport under the alias Miramar Qaddafi, and that the network only failed to recognize him because no employees had ever actually watched the show.
Upon viewing the show, past episodes reveal that Gaddafi portrayed an acquaintance of Dalton named Myramar Ghadaffi, a decadent, incoherent, psychopathic, defeated Arab dictator with a weakness for blondes and ties to Richard Daley’s Mayoral Administration.
According to TV critic Glenn Bowery, one of nearly four dozen Americans to see every episode of the now-cancelled show, Gaddafi’s performance was one of the few bright spots among many failures.
“In a show filled with campy performances of trite, clichéd characters, Qadaffi seemed to bring a very personal, authentic energy to his role as Ghadaffi,” Bowery said. “It was a real standout performance. Too bad no one got to see it.”
Gaddafi is now being transported to The Hague, where he will await trial on charges ranging from mass murder to scene stealing in International Criminal Court.
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