MTV turns a penis joke into a TV show

Leave it to the network that exposed us to Howard Stern's bare ass to create a show about some dude's junk.

It looks like MTV is moving ahead with Hard Times, a comedy about a high school nerd who becomes popular after accidentally exposing the student body to his, er, gigantic penis. Hard times. Get it?

OK, MTV. You win. You've been trying to alienate everyone except horny, gas-huffing teenage boys and text-happy mallrats for years now. I think you've finally done it. Congratulations.

Hard Times will star Paul Iacono as the well-endowed nerd. The show is produced/directed by David Katzenberg (son of Jeffrey and arm candy of Nicky Hilton). Here's a glimmer of hope: the show is written and directed by Seth Grahame-Smith, who worked on the hilarious Web series Clark and Michael, starring Michael Cera and Clark Duke.

According to IMDB, Grahame-Smith's next project is called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. With a title like that, it will most certainly be awesome. Still, it's not enough to make me want to watch something like Hard Times, which I presume Grahame-Smith is making only to finance his next eventual project, Sense & Sensibility of the Dead.