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Jimmy Kimmel Demolishes ABC’s Upfronts (Funny, Truthful Stuff)
The New York Times ^
| May 19, 2009
| Dave Itzkoff
Posted on 05/19/2009 10:01:42 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Jimmy Kimmel Demolishes ABC’s Upfronts By Dave Itzkoff
If Jimmy Kimmel still has a job at ABC on Wednesday, he is either a very lucky or very deft comedian, or he has great blackmail photos of the network executives.
(Excerpt) Read more at artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abc; duplicate; jimmykimmel; kimmel; kimmell; tv
To: buccaneer81
WOW - I liked the ones about canceling... and then there’s a show with ‘tank’ right in the title... lol
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posted on
05/19/2009 10:22:29 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: OneWingedShark
WOW - I liked the ones about canceling... and then there’s a show with ‘tank’ right in the title... lolJimmy is either totally fed up, or he really does have something on the execs.
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posted on
05/19/2009 10:25:19 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: buccaneer81
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posted on
05/19/2009 10:30:08 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: OneWingedShark
Maybe both.Sounds like it.
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posted on
05/19/2009 10:31:41 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: buccaneer81
Remember the MAN SHOW?
Remember the JIGGLIES???
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posted on
05/19/2009 10:50:42 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: UCANSEE2
Remember the MAN SHOW? Remember the JIGGLIES???Man I miss that!
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posted on
05/19/2009 10:52:57 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: buccaneer81
Jimmy Kimmel is my favorite late night talk show host. Letterman has become a crotchety liberal loon. Leno never did fill Carson’s shoes. Jimmy Fallon is horrible. It looks like he is just reading from a teleprompter the entire time.
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:07:09 PM PDT
by
kik5150
To: buccaneer81
Sounds to me like Jimmy Kimmel is having a Howard Beale moment.
If I would have to guess, like Howard Beale, Kimmel is tired of the BS. Good for him. It shows that he isn’t some phony celebrity on the make, trying to fool everyone.
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:10:24 PM PDT
by
Ticonderoga34
(A Community Organizer is the 21st century version of a Ward Heeler.)
To: zert_28
The Smothers Brothers still do state fairs and some gigs around the country. It maybe that Kimmel figures he can go on to bigger and better.
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posted on
05/20/2009 2:10:31 AM PDT
by
carumba
(The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho)
To: carumba
Smothers brothers also play Vegas.
(I ran into Dick Smothers a few years ago at a Radio Shack in Vegas when we were looking for a watch battery for Mrs.LVD, he gave us directions to a store called Battery Source...)
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posted on
05/20/2009 2:30:14 AM PDT
by
Las Vegas Dave
("Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." - Ronald Reagan)
To: buccaneer81
While I’m sure the affiliates et al chuckled either out of mirth or embarrassment, they are creatures of habit and will carry on with business as usual chasing a dwindling, aging audience that has neither the buying power nor the loyalty of past years. See also: American carmakers.
They are all counting on Joe and Jane Sixpack opening another bag of Doritos and watching their “new” sitcoms and reality shows but for some reason they believe that Joe and Jane still don’t have satellite, cable, DVRs or the Internet.
To: buccaneer81
I'd like to read an interview with one of the advertisers in the audience. Something equally "honest"...
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posted on
05/20/2009 5:48:55 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(If printing money was an answer, why don't Haitians "print" their way out of poverty?)
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