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Now it's Senator Cable Guy
Boston Globe ^
| January 21, 2005
| Michael Levenson
Posted on 01/21/2005 11:27:07 AM PST by Radix
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, one of the best-known figures in American politics, is now hosting his own community-access cable show, and he fits in perfectly amidst the weird, wacky, and unfailingly earnest.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: cable; cameraadds10lbs; host; kennedy; television
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posted on
01/21/2005 11:27:08 AM PST
by
Radix
To: Radix
The news said he just landed the Speedo account.
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posted on
01/21/2005 11:28:42 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: Radix
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, one of the best-known figures in American politics, is now hosting his own community-access cable show, and he fits in perfectly amidst the weird, wacky, and unfailingly earnest. Is it a golf show? You know, he can't drive over water.
To: AppyPappy
His first guest was bill clinton. Bill and Ted- get it?
Oh, nevermind.
To: Radix
Teddy's World!
Teddy's World!
Teddy's World!
We're not worthy! We're not worthy!
Tonight, I am your excellent host Ted Kennedy. And I am joined by my excellent friend Garth.
Garth, is your mother still really hot? Can she swim?
Leave my mother alone, Ted!
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posted on
01/21/2005 11:32:08 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: Radix
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posted on
01/21/2005 11:33:47 AM PST
by
Clemenza
(Europhiles and Monarchists should be purged)
To: Radix
If Scott Peterson had drowned his wife in Mass. would he be a senator now?
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posted on
01/21/2005 11:33:53 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(all your tagline are belong to us)
To: Radix
Too bad it isn't a call in show, that could be fun!
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posted on
01/21/2005 11:35:08 AM PST
by
apackof2
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To: Radix
In an interview this week, Kennedy said he is planning episodes on black history and other topics.
How about one on how to get an auto with a body in it out of a river. I am sure that this would cause a spike in viewers of the show.
To: Radix
I wonder if when he's reminiscing about his school days he tells about his cheating in college?
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posted on
01/21/2005 11:37:56 AM PST
by
Mears
To: Clemenza
Teddy the Cable Guy...wonder what Larry would have to say about that, LOL!
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posted on
01/21/2005 11:44:11 AM PST
by
dawn53
To: Prince Charles
Congressional aerobics........fat and sassy Teddy in a leotard.......
To: dawn53
He'd say, now I don't care who you are, that's ugly right there!
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posted on
01/21/2005 11:49:13 AM PST
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Ich bin ein Pittsburgher - GO STEELERS!)
To: Radix
They are going to need a jumbotron to hold ol' Fat Ted!
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posted on
01/21/2005 11:53:26 AM PST
by
Polyxene
(For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: Mr. K
it almost seems plausible doesn't it?
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posted on
01/21/2005 11:55:31 AM PST
by
Newton
(BREAKING NEWS: 59,108,395 REAL Americans tell the Leftist jerks to "shove it!")
To: Radix
The show, taped monthly at Emerson College, is decidedly amateurish. Kennedy misses camera cues. He snaps on his glasses to read off cue cards. He turns questions into stump speeches. Guests, including Driscoll, Kelley, and Mayor Thomas M. Menino, sometimes find themselves nodding through impromptu lectures on the federal budget process or a sudden ode to public school teachers.
In other words, he sounds and acts like the old drunkard he is.
To: Polyxene
Reminds me of a scene in Tootsie:
Producer: Let's try and make her look a little younger. How far can you pull back?
Cameraman: How about Cleveland?
To: Radix
In 1961,
Mad magazine did a satire on the Kennedy Administration with a sketch putting Jack Kennedy in Jack Paar's slot running the "Tonight Show" on NBC.
44 years later and it finally comes to pass -- with a different Kennedy.
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posted on
01/21/2005 12:07:08 PM PST
by
Publius
(The people of a democracy choose the government they want, and they ought to get it good and hard.)
To: Radix
Kennedy's show, ''Capitol Perspective," is equal parts C-SPAN and Rosie O'Donnell and vaguely reminiscent of "Wayne's World." The gushing introductions, the missed camera cues, the lapses into senatorial speak -- it's a half-hour of homespun policy chat with the third longest-serving senator in United States history. I have GOT to see this! How I wish it was streamed!
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posted on
01/21/2005 12:14:14 PM PST
by
JennysCool
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