Self-defecation

As a faux tweet mentioned long ago, Alan Thicke will star in Queen for a Day: The Musical. Sounds like a joke but the stage show is really going to happen. Luckily for Thicke's sanity, he seems to realize just how jokey the entire concept is.

In an interview with Canada's National Post, Thicke displays a nice, rumpled, down-to-earth sense of humor about himself and his career:

A reviewer once wrote without any irony or facetiousness, just because he was illiterate, that "Alan Thicke has a nice self-defecating sense of humour." [Canadian spelling, folks.] I said, "Yeah, that’s me. Put that on my tombstone."

While I've never been a huge fan of Alan Thicke's game shows - All New 3's a Crowd was a crime against humanity - I can appreciate his apparently genuine lack of pretension. Which helps in such a low-rent, unpretentious genre as game shows. I have no idea if the musical based on the old Jack Bailey embarrassment will be great, horrible, or in-between. But at least Thicke has the right attitude.