Posted on 01/29/2003 7:45:12 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
Last call at Jimmy Kimmel's new ABC talk show NEW YORK (AP) - It's last call at Jimmy Kimmel's new ABC talk show.
After a boisterous premiere during which actor George Clooney passed around a bottle of vodka and an audience member vomited, the bar that serves drinks to audience members has been shut down.
Kimmel's late-night talk show, to run regularly on weeknights, premiered early Monday two hours after the end of the Super Bowl and was seen by an average of 4.8 million viewers.
Besides Clooney pouring drinks, rapper Snoop Dogg tested censors by several times making an on-camera obscene gesture.
``We were not comfortable with the systems in place for serving wine and beer,'' ABC spokesman Kevin Brockman said.
Daniel Kellison, the show's executive producer, said, ``They just said `let's chill out on it and take it away for now,' and we said fine. We have bigger fish to fry.''
ABC is hoping to build a late-night franchise by replacing ``Politically Incorrect'' with a new show led by Kimmel, former co-host of ``The Man Show'' on Comedy Central. ABC had resisted letting the show operate a bar in the first place, but Kellison pointed out drinks are served at the Disney-owned California Angels' games.
Kimmel, speaking earlier this month, said he wanted to make going to the show a more pleasant experience than it normally is for audience members.
``You stand out there for three hours,'' he said. ``They poke you with cattle prods to get in, and then you're forced to laugh and applaud at certain times. I want to make it more of an evening out where people actually enjoy themselves from the beginning of the experience until the end.''
Drinks aren't served to audience members at Jay Leno's ``Tonight'' show and David Letterman's ``Late Show.'' On-air guests at ``Tonight'' are asked backstage if they want a drink; Letterman's people won't ask, but will get something if it's requested.
Last June, ``Tonight'' show guest Tom Green got progressively drunk on the air as a gimmick, an experiment thought to quickly spiral out of control.
For a new show seeking attention like Kimmel's, publicity about a raucous opening night and bar shutdown might not necessarily be a bad thing.
``It gives us some stature in terms of people thinking this is a different show and not a conventional talk show,'' Kellison said. ``Honestly, what we want to do is create a place where the young audience and young talent feel like this is a fun place to come.''
One man's Skid Row is another man's Mozart.
Be ashamed....
Be very ashamed!
You sound like a real card! Do you want to come to my next kegger?
You need to get a freakin' life. You sound like the left-wing P.C. police.
From the Parents Television Council, August 22, 2001:
Some people here think South Park is great simply because it is politically incorrect and takes shots at liberal sacred cows like Barbra Streisand and Janet Reno. It's a shame it takes sickos like the creators of South Park to get that done.
The July 11 episode [of South Park] began with Cartman, the most clueless of the fourth-graders, informing his pals that he now had pubic hair. He reassures them that “this doesn’t mean we can’t still hang out. It just means that I matured faster than you.”It seems that Cartman, unaware that a person grows pubic hair when he or she’s old enough, bought the hair in question from Scott, an unscrupulous ninth grader, for ten dollars. Once he realizes he’s been taken, Cartman is furious (“I’m gonna get that son of a bitch!…That a—hole!”) and plots his revenge. He tries to train a pony to bite Scott’s penis off, but the pony won’t cooperate, instead fellating the fake penis Cartman provides.
That, incredibly, brought to a close the more tasteful portion of the episode.
Cartman then devises a scheme which results in Scott’s parents trespassing on land owned by a “crazy redneck.” The landowner fatally shoots the parents. Cartman takes their bodies, saws them up, and makes them one of the ingredients in a chili which Scott eats at a cookoff. (The dismemberment isn’t shown, but once Cartman tells Scott what he’s done, Scott reaches into the chili and pulls out one of his mother’s fingers, her engagement ring still on it.)
Calling someone "uptight" is in itself condescending. In any event, we "uptight" people won't miss you.
And that bit about "here's what I think about Bill Clinton" and then farting -- yessir, that's funny stuff. That should be on stage at the Improv.
Allright, I'm gonna get in a helluva lotta trouble for this, but is there something about these guys, and their ilk, that just leaps off the page at you? Consider the following links:
SternI was really disappointed in Ben Stein for putting up with the filth that came out of Kimmel and Pimental, and, while I hesitate to put him in their category, you have to admit that when he had an opportunity to lead by example, he chose to punt.
Kimmel
Pimental
If there are any Old Testament Freepers who would care to comment, and who have the good manners not to call me a Nazi, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
Of course, in striking her name, I give plenty of evidence in opposition of the point I was trying to make.
Sign... I do not care about ego driven actors, low IQ bimbos, plugs for new movies, or stupid ignorant @ssholes who think sitting behind a desk and interviewing celebrities makes them a sort of heir to Johnny Carson.
I desire comedy... and comedy does not have to involve political agendas, obscene language, nor filthy sexual innuendo. From what I have seen, Jimmy Kimmel is a hack.
It's true that any discussion of Hollywood and this topic will encounter various circular & chicken before the egg kinds of arguments, but I'm really curious what their co-religionists think of guys like Stern, and Kimmel, and Seinfeld. Do they ever just want to crawl under a rock from the humiliation of it? I'd like to think that many a person of African ancestry would feel a similar sense of shame when they listen to guys like Richard Prior, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, the Original Kings of Comedy...
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