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Say what you will about Jimmy Kimmel doing full-body blackface but that is an impressively faithful interpretation of the Utah Jazz's early-2000s alternate black jersey.

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Full on black face of a guy who got a 13 year old pregnant when he was in college. Intersectionality of outrage.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Chelsea Handler would be better than any of the network hosts going right now, all of whom seem to be crying all the time.

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Obviously not a Utah Jamz fan.

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She's a full time activist now, and would be crying with them.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Pretty sure the Black Ops guys at Gitmo alternate between blasting Infant Annihilator and playing Amber Ruffin clips 24/7. Word on the street is that the terrorists finally crack after about 15 minutes of Amber. There is NO WAY IN HELL Stem Meyers actually believes she's funny and/or smart. She infuriates me and unless I know Armisen is behind the kit, I refuse to watch Meyers.
Don't get me started on Noah, Colbert, Corden, etc.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

An example of Snyder in his CBS twilight: https://youtu.be/4su92dvgdkU

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

It's like Karl Malone always say, everytime you eat a egg, that's like eating a chicken's baby.

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I forgot Letterman would have been the one that replaced Snyder at NBC. Crazy stuff.

I didn't know the NFL wasn't on CBS for a time. Found this from the Ringer a couple nights ago, finally got around to reading it earlier this morning. Fantastic oral history of what went down:

https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2018/12/13/18137938/nfl-fox-deal-rupert-murdoch-1993-john-madden-terry-bradshaw-howie-long-jimmy-johnson-cbs-nbc

CBS losing the NFL was such a big deal that WITI in Milwaukee changed affiliations from CBS to Fox in 1994 in order to keep the majority of the Packers' schedule. That was channel 6 in the tail end of when VHF/UHF mattered. CBS had to scramble to get back into Milwaukee and had to settle for channel 58. And I know it's hard to say it without sounding like a crazy person, but I may be one anyway, so I'll say it: CBS losing the NFL started a chain reaction that led to Donald Trump becoming the president.

When NBC lost the NFL in a corresponding move with CBS getting it back, they hit the skids, even if in their case it was the AFC they were losing, and didn't start pulling themselves back together until they got Sunday Night Football. (Remember, too, that they also lost Michael Jordan and Seinfeld that year.)

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there was a certain amount of innocence lost when CBS lost the NFC and Fox acquired it. Fox has had a negative imprint of sports coverage, although maybe it was destined to go in that direction anyway. I've always hated their chuckle fest pre game (lived for the NFL Today on CBS). I hate how they superimpose fake stadium sounds. Everything just seems so faux with them.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I'm not sure exactly how destined it was. Remember that as late as at least 1998, so through Jordan and the end of the AFC deal, NBC wouldn't run a constant score/clock display because Dick Ebersol thought it would make people change the channel. Maybe that would have happened eventually, but those Fox scoreboards that would go bleep-bleep-bleep-bloop-bloop and explode into flames, or every pregame show being five or six people yelling over each other and laughing at who-knows-what? I think that was one network imposing its sensibilities on everyone else.

An interesting thing about Fox poaching the NFC from CBS is that both principals (Murdoch at Fox, Tisch at CBS) seemed to have a certain contempt for television, but it manifested itself in opposite ways.

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Looks like Corden is in trouble because he called balut gross.

It is gross.

I take offense at cooking good cow meat into leather. That’s gross too.

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You know me like that.

You're watching a late-night comedy show, not Rick Steves. Find respect somewhere else, you big baby!


Your late-night comedy show is about light and love?!? You shut up too!


SHUT UP

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Filipinos laugh when a white guy tries balut. They love it.

I love peanut butter and Dorito sandwiches. If you think it’s gross, and most do, I don’t really care.

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Nothing on television is for adults anymore. Everything is for babies.

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Don’t get me started on the post-golf party where I started doing shots of Lambanóg with twigs and Juicy Fruit gum marinating in the bottle.

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The twigs, I understand, but you'll have to explain the Juicy Fruit.

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It was actually quite good.

And you don’t feel the potency right away. And that’s when it gets dangerous.

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You know me like that.

Is the gum used or fresh?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Depends on the price.

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So basically you're saying because NBC lost the NFL, Michael Jordan, and Seinfeld in 1998 -- and then the NBA altogether in 2002, that's what led them to strike a deal with Trump and his tv show?

I love a good Butterfly Effect theory. This one has legs(or wings, I guess).

Well, try this one out. If Star Trek: Voyager had been more popular in its early run and the actress that played Kes wasn't a sexual pervert, then they would not have needed to bring in Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine.

So, no one would have really noticed that the Ryans were involved in sex clubs and filed to unseal their court documents for the salacious details when neither one of them wanted those court documents made public.

At that point, Obama is never elected and, therefore, would not have insulted Trump at a media dinner and Trump would never have bothered to become a candidate.

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I was watching the Phil Ponce retirement retrospective on Chicago Tonight yesterday and they highlighted his Blair Hull debate question about his assault on his wife.

Obama had so many things break his way in his political career based on nothing but pure luck. The road opened to him almost from the very beginning, with Bobby Rush being the only bump.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Milt Rosenberg would be very proud of the counterfactuals in this thread.

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What really screwed NBC was that after 1998, they put all their eggs in the Friends basket. By the end, the main cast really didn't want to do the show anymore and would come up with absurd salary demands that were made to be declined. NBC called their bluff every year and kept sinking more and more money into the show. The network barely put money into anything else in prime time, during which time The Apprentice became a breakout hit in lieu of anything else. No one watched the early years of The Office in first run.

Desperate Networks by Bill Carter covers a really fascinating time in television, that is, the years between NBC losing and regaining the NFL.

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Someone was going to buy The Apprentice because the guy who really did the show had changed television forever with Survivor. NBC was the most desperate though and paid the most money but it isn't like another network wouldn't have jumped on for it.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!