Bill O'Reilly devoted .0000000003% of his show last night to addressing the tape everyone saw this week of his legally abusive temper tantrum on Inside Edition. "By the way," he starts, segueing into his acknowledgment as if it just came to mind in the middle of an interview and he wanted to share it with us. Bill claims that he's contractually obligated to perform these stunts for the amusement of his co-workers, none of whom seemed remotely tickled in the first tape:
My favorite part is when someone off-camera fake-laughs. I wonder how much he was paid or threatened to do that.
The funny thing about the Sue Simmons f-bomb "scandal" is the outpouring of support (and little to no criticism) the gaffe has brought out in New Yorkers. She's like the anti-O'Reilly, especially since she was most likely joking and he was abusively dead serious. I love Sue, and admire the grace with which she's handled this embarrassing moment. She's even answering all of her emails. But that doesn't mean that this 236 video by our friend Max Silvestri, which imagines what Sue was looking at that made her yell, isn't still funny:
First Bill O'Reilly in the '90s, now this (ha). Last night, beloved longtime WNBC co-anchor Sue Simmons was teasing a story about getting the most at the grocery store when, apparently thinking she was off the air, yelled "The fuck are you doing??". It was followed by 8 seconds of silence:
Simmons later apologized for using "a word that many people find offensive":
Yes, you do. I don't know what's more amazing about this local news segment in which a cow craps practically on the head of a guy reporting from a county fair. Is it the fact that he says "I've been down in South Beach and I haven't gotten this kind of action for weeks!" (What on earth does that mean?) Or the fact that he actually uses the cow shitting incident as a segue into a story about Britney Spears and Kevin Federline? Either way, you can't help yourself: it's been a long week and you just want to see a local news blooper involving an animal going to the bathroom. Here it is.
In order to promote the second season of their TV show, This American Life put together a live event last night at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, which was simulcast (I'm a professional writer about media now) to more than 300 movie theaters around the country. I'm told it was similar to the touring live show TAL has done in the past, with maybe a little bit more video clips thrown in. I have never been to one of the touring live shows, so I will simply accept this description to be accurate.
First of all, NPR fans need to work harder. I'm sorry, you guys, but as someone who loves NPR just as much as the next latte drinking anti-prison gay agenda Julia Butterfly, we live in America and it's time to start acting like it. Case in point: before the show started there was a homemade pre-show Movie Quiz style game of hangman projected on the screen. The clue was "He is usually the answer to the movie quiz jumble:" and the letters were WHATTEM YEGACCHOMUN. The woman behind me said proudly "Well it's Matthew something." Go back to Russia, Communists.
This weekend on Fox and Friends, comedian guest Lee Camp apparently decided he didn't want to be Fox's Friend (or invited back), calling Fox News "a parade of ignorance" and urging viewers to "go outside" and "love your family" as an alternative to watching the channel. Surely no additional families will be loved because of the stunt, but it's still fun to see someone just say "what the fuck, I'm doin' it" on live TV (Via TV Squad):
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