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NBC asks viewers for better sitcom ideas
Entertainment Weekly ^ | April 8, 2014 | James Hibbert

Posted on 04/09/2014 6:35:11 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog

The broadcast network announced “an unprecedented effort to discover fresh comedic voices” on Tuesday by launching a national campaign offering aspiring comedy writers from around the country the chance to pitch their sitcom ideas. [snip]

(Excerpt) Read more at insidetv.ew.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2016election; chat; comedy; culture; demagogicparty; election2016; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; sitcom; sitcoms; television; vastwasteland
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To: albie

You too?


121 posted on 04/09/2014 8:32:13 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: BenLurkin

“All in the Family”, reversed.


122 posted on 04/09/2014 8:34:43 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Texas Eagle
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123 posted on 04/09/2014 8:38:03 AM PDT by februus
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To: Mich Patriot
...STOP SHOE-HORNING GAYS INTO EVERY DAMN SITCOM

It is not just sitcoms. I have noticed this with every show I watch. It is now obligatory for there to be a "gay" character. And, yes, you are not the only one.

124 posted on 04/09/2014 8:40:25 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Remake of Amos & Andy show with Obama and Holder.


125 posted on 04/09/2014 8:42:10 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Buckeye McFrog

How about a reality show: contestants stalk Alec Baldwin, paparazzi-style, and compete to see how long it takes each one to provoke him into a profane tirade and/or physical assault. Points awarded for speed and for style.


126 posted on 04/09/2014 8:42:30 AM PDT by lump in the melting pot (Half-brother is Watching You!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Look at what you’ve been doing lately and do the opposite.


127 posted on 04/09/2014 8:43:10 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Buckeye McFrog

A muslim warlord with four wives runs a terrorist group. He’s got a 10 year old white suburban boy on the side he recruited from a Cub Scout Pack, and has real trouble putting killers in the field.

His bomb expert blows up 20 recruits demonstrating how to be a suicide bomber, for example. Hijinx ensue.

Then there was the episode wife number 2 finds a pair of Superman underalls from the 10 year old in his briefcase. The lead, Hussein Osama, tries to tell her its a souvenir from the 9/11 WTC attack, but they find an unopened pack of Pokémon X cards in his briefcase the next day.

Everybody knows 9/11 happened pre-Pokémon Heart’s Gold!

Then there’s the episode where the town of Groton, CT has all of the fireworks stolen for their 4th of July party. His cub scout lover convinces him to donate to the town so that they can put on the firework show. He’s moved by this, and he puts his trusted assistant to the task.

The assistant gets his wire’s crossed (no pun intended) and ends up blowing up the Electric Boat Submarine Manufacturing Works instead at sunset on the Fourth.

I tell ya it was hilarious watching the lead and his boy lover all ready to watch the fireworks when the explosion happens and showers the two of them in shrapnel, blood and body parts. That part seemed a little fake to me, since the explosion happened so far from the hill the two were on, and you know greedy EB wasn’t going to cave and have people working double time and a half on a federal holiday.

Muslim humor - totally new beachhead for the funny people at NBC to plant their fag, uh, I mean flag. I’m telling you - comedy gold.


128 posted on 04/09/2014 8:44:25 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: lump in the melting pot

He’d probably be willing to fake it in order to get another gig. The best part is, no holds barred — if he wanted to call a stalker a faggot, it would be okay. Huge 1st season ratings.


129 posted on 04/09/2014 8:49:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: albie

“Go all gay. Pretend there are no straight people anywhere. I haven’t tuned in anything, sports included, on major networks for 6 years+.”

Great idea. This is my sitcom. A flaming gay couple living in the Tenderloin district goes through some wacky antics in trying to get to the parade on time. Each week we are introduced to new leather and feather clad flamers who just go all marvy on their new threads..

But wait. They are late to the parade. Now what?

Forget just going half gay. They go full gay.


130 posted on 04/09/2014 8:56:01 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: Buckeye McFrog
NBC has enlisted a roster of well-known producers and actors to help them choose the winning concepts.

LOL - a group of liberal producers and actors will chose? Good one.... No chance they'll 'pick the predictable' stuff that's funny to white liberal elites or to members of white liberal elite's victim groups... right?

Thanks for a total waste of time and effort NBC... We've already seen the show they're going to pick... a hundred times. And if they pick from the viewpoint of pretending to be middle class conservatives, the show will be insulting to us. If I was writing a show based on my stereotypes of white elites every episode would deal with the joys of having an abortion because from my point of view that's where I see liberal passion. I suspect the show might be insulting to liberals, but they never 'get' the reverse.

Here's my suggestion NBC - have your writers, producers and actors write for each other like they always have and let the so called entertainment industry at your network die. It would be a favor to all...

131 posted on 04/09/2014 8:56:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (.'Dog Shit' could be sold to 7 million citizens if the IRS fined those who refused to buy it...)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

The other option is move MSNBC’s 7-9 shows to NBC and bill it as a bunch of inept political hacks trying to put together a news show.


132 posted on 04/09/2014 8:57:38 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I have a great idea: How about a news network with a conservative and republican bias?

I know, I know... it’s not a believable premise. But still.


133 posted on 04/09/2014 8:58:42 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: dfwgator

Every liberal wet dream has been done...


134 posted on 04/09/2014 9:01:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (.'Dog Shit' could be sold to 7 million citizens if the IRS fined those who refused to buy it...)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
How about a sitcom about an absolute dufous who cons himself into becoming senator, then almost president. (Seasons 1-4)

For seasons 5-8, the dufous cons up the biggest scheme job in history, by conning 3/4 the population that the world is getting warmer and then is doomed. Finally for his Coup de gras in season 8, he allows terrorist to get a media outlet into the country, while pocketing hundreds of millions. All in the comfort in his private jet.

The show would make Peter Seller's classic "Being There" seem like childs play.

135 posted on 04/09/2014 9:10:58 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

They already have a DAILY sit-com. It is called ‘Today’.

Quit pushing a gay agenda, also.


136 posted on 04/09/2014 9:22:07 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Buckeye McFrog

How’s this: A city is taken over by 86% feral blacks. The 14% whites are queers who provide fodder for laughs and hilarity as “knockout game” participants and mugging victims. Add a laugh track after every assault and non-comprehensible ebonic utterance.

Call it DEEEEEE-troit!


137 posted on 04/09/2014 10:11:03 AM PDT by Zman516
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To: Covenantor
Winky Dink and You - the first interactive cartoon show.
I had the kit. Great fun. Today, kids that age are into "selfies."
138 posted on 04/09/2014 10:20:09 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: TomGuy
I have a rather large collection of old and modern TV series I enjoy
"Modern" meaning ... ?
The last good series that I can recall was Law and Order (1990 - 2000) and I never even saw the show until it was in reruns.
139 posted on 04/09/2014 10:26:44 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
This might make a good sitcom!!!

Would be a huge, giant humongous hit!!!!

Dear Abby,

My husband has a long record of money problems. He runs up huge credit card bills and at the end of the month, if I try to pay them off, he shouts at me, saying I am stealing his money. He says pay the minimum and let our kids worry about the rest, but already we can hardly keep up with the interest.

Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our neighbors that most of them no longer speak to us. The few that do are an odd bunch to whom he has been giving a lot of expensive gifts, running up our bills even more.

Also, he has gotten religious. One week he hangs out with Catholics and the next with people who say the Pope is the Anti-Christ, and the next he's on his knees 7 times a day with Muslims.

Finally, the last straw. He's demanding that before anyone can be in the same room with him, they must sign a loyalty oath. It's just so horribly creepy!

Can you help?

Signed,

Lost

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Dear Lost,

Suck it up and stop whining, Michelle. You're getting to live in the White House for free, travel the world, and have others pay for everything for you.

You can divorce the jerk any time you want. The rest of us are stuck with the idiot for 3 more years.

Signed,

Abby

140 posted on 04/09/2014 10:34:42 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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