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Posted on 10/09/2002 11:09:34 AM PDT by LakerCJL
BY VINCE HORIUCHI THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
It is the programmers versus The Penis.
KSL-TV (Channel 5) decided Tuesday not to broadcast tonight's Jay Leno show because it will feature performers who contort their male organs into such shapes as the Eiffel Tower and the Loch Ness monster.
The two Australian artists from the stage show "Puppetry of the Penis" won't be performing on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" -- they will just talk about their stage performance. But that is too much for KSL, the NBC affiliate owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"It's inappropriate and something I'm not comfortable with having on KSL-TV," said Jim Yorgason, the station's vice president and general manager.
"There are times when they have programming we find objectionable or unacceptable," he said. "It's a fine line, and we take it on a case-by-case basis. This segment is not anything I can support at KSL."
NBC programmers are negotiating with Utah's WB station, KUWB-TV (Channel 30), to air Leno's late-night show. KUWB had not decided by Tuesday night.
"It will cause a big shuffle," said KUWB creative services director Jim Crownover. The station would have to move the risque dating shows "Elimi- date" and "Blind Date" to accommodate Leno at 10:35 p.m. "If we can't get out of our other programming commitment, there's no place to run it."
While Leno's show will headline actress Jamie Lee Curtis and rocker Beck, Yorgason was rattled by the performers of "Puppetry of the Penis," David Friend and Simon Morley, who call their show the "ancient Australian art of genital origami."
Yorgason has not seen the stage show but was advised of it by a viewer who learned they would be on Leno. Yorgason then made the decision with other KSL programmers after visiting the "Puppetry of the Penis" Web site.
"I can't in my wildest dreams think that what they do on the Internet site they will do on the Leno show," he said.
A "Tonight Show" spokeswoman said that after a producer saw "Puppetry of the Penis" he invited the two artists "to come on and just discuss their show." An NBC spokeswoman said there have been no other complaints from affiliates.
It is not the first time KSL has blocked programming for what executives considered objectionable content. Since becoming an NBC affiliate in 1996, the station has not aired "Saturday Night Live."
And in the past year, the station declined to show an episode of "Fear Factor" when the contestants were dared to sing in the nude.
Yorgason knows his decision to not air "The Tonight Show" will draw the ire of Leno fans. "It's a no-win situation," he said. "You can't please everyone."
A Yorgi Yorgason relative, I wonder?
Brings a new meaning to "I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas"!
I can do a mean Washington Monument.
Is Monica Lewinsky on tonights's show?
I can do a mean Washington Monument.
I had a girlfriend who could do the Pentagon.
When Eiffel in love,
It will be forever...
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Darn -- I was looking forward to hearing Clinton describe his "Elbow Macaroni" and "Fishhook" impressions.
Sounds like those guys are having a gay ole time of it.
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