TV
New Findings Suggest Nancy Grace Was Catalyst For Florida Woman’s Suicide
T
hese news pundit shows are absolutely horrible.
They’re all about pushing people’s buttons in order to rile up their guests for the sake of rating and boosting the host’s mad-with-power ego. Three years ago CNN host Nancy Grace pushed a guest’s buttons. The result was tragic:
"A Harvard professor says CNN Headline News host Nancy Grace’s relentless questioning of a Florida mother three years ago contributed to her suicide, according to a filing in the family’s wrongful death case."
Party Crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi DC Wedding Celebration
I
love it.
Potential reality stars risking jail for their shot at 15-minutes of cliched fame. The latest is a polo playing winemaker and his Washington DC trophy wife and their White House party crashing antics. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for sneaking into places, but take a gander at Michaele and Tereq Salahi’s wedding video and tell with all honesty whether or not you can watch it without vomiting over this pair. Just what the idle-rich-who-have-everything need is a realty show.
What’s next for the reality star obsessed? Holding a bus full of children hostage? Becoming an impromptu suicide bomber. Oh crazy reality TV; how I loath thee.
Who Are You Calling A Nigger? Wholesome Family TV!
No. We are not making that title up.
That was the name of a TV show we just watched on Channel 4 in the UK.
I'd like to see them try to get away with calling a show that in the US.
Show was fairly interesting - an examination of the racial hatred going on in the UK between Pakistanis and West Indians. Ah, Great Britian, how your empire has come back to haunt you. Although it's kind of hard to watch poor people in one of the LARGEST SOCIAL WELFARE STATES EVER bitch about the things they can't get. Try doing that back in the States, guys.
The host was Darcus Howe, who asked some good questions. The main problem is that he has absolutely no personality on TV whatsoever. Watching him ask questions was about as exciting as lawn bowling. Check the YouTube clip below.
Anyway, the most disturbing thing about the show wasn't the subject matter, it was the fact that Darcus HAD A FUCKING HUGE GRAY HAIR STICKING OUT OF HIS NOSE FOR THE WHOLE PROGRAM.
WTF?!!! Isn't that what makeup people are supposed to do? You've got 20 people on one of these crews and NOT ONE OF THEM NOTICED? It was horrible.
It's not visible in the clip below. I'll see if I can find one somewhere.
Easily one of the most disturbing things I've seen over here. Other than My Shocking Story. Watching that really puts things into perspective. Have a bad day? Yeah? well at least you're not TREE MAN.
Freedom Haters on Canadian TV
Hey Freedom Haters. I was on a Canadian TV show. Where did it take place? Canada, silly. The show's called "A Total Write Off." It's kind of like Whose Line Is It Anyway, but with writers.
Our writing team, Stephan King's Lasagne Recipe ended up losing but it was a lot of fun and Canadians are so darn nice.
The Madness Is Starting Again!!! Ken Ober found dead!!!
Oh god! Not again!!
Ken Ober, host of MTV's first game show, "Remote Control", was found dead in his Santa Monica home at age 52.
Interesting bit of trivia - his last name was really "Oberding".
We all know how these things go and what happened last time.
Chris Hardwick - RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!
Jenny McCarthy, well, the less said the better.
Freedom Haters salutes you, Ken Ober(ding).
Below is a clip of MTV featuring a very young Adam Sandler.
Ironic/NOT Ironic: The Shake Weight
I do believe the Shake Weight is this season's Snuggie.
This is by far one of the gayest things I've ever seen. I think if you're not sure if you are gay, you soon will be after one session with the Shake Weight. As the informercial goes, 30 seconds into it you'll already be covered in sweat........and pumped!
Check out the Shake Weight circle jerk taking place with these three sweaty hairless men:
But the big question: Is the Shake Weight ironic or NOT ironic? Freedom Haters wants to know!
Mythbusters Squeezes The Charmin!
Just getting back into watching Mythbusters.
I know those guys on the show are special effects artists, but I got curious as to what films they've done special effects on.
Well, it turns out that one of the Mythbusters, Adam Savage, has a lot more than special effects in his background.
He was a child actor and appearred with the legendary Mr. Whipple in a "Don't squeeze the Charmin" commercial!
And on Sesame Street!
And even in the Billy Joel video, Second Wind.
The meanies at Sony wouldn't let their video be embedded, but follow the link above to the YouTube clip.
(He shows up about 2 minutes in. Forgot how retarded that video was.)
Below is Adam & Mr. Whipple
Balloon Boy Falcon Speaks For America
All hail “Balloon Boy” Falcon.
Making the rounds on the talk show circuit, the Hennes–America’s new favorite crazy family–were on the Today Show this morning.
While talking about the whole boy-trapped-in-a-balloon debacle, little Falcon puked right on national TV.
Apparently the kid is sick of all the press his storm-chasing dad is getting over the incident.
Why did Falcon puke on the Today Show? Did he do it “for the show”?
What’s crazier:
a) Claiming to put your son in a homemade ballon
b) Naming your son “Falcon”
c) All of the above
Michael Vick Gets Reality Show: Hell Has Frozen Over
Hurrah! Michael Vick is going to star in his very own reality show! I think that's great.
Yes celebrate the NFL player who was convicted of dog fighting by throwing tons of money at him. (Did he find Jesus during this whole ordeal?)
Let's hope it's sponsored by Alpo.
Freedom Haters on BBC TV
Much like David Letterman, we here at Freedom Haters wanted to come forward with something painful in our past before someone uses it to blackmail us.
We appeared on a BBC "Reality" TV show.
Granted, this is BBC Northern Ireland, which means probably about five people have watched this thing.
We signed a confidentiality agreement not to talk to the media, so we can't divulge any details about the show (lest we lose our £1 payment - which, BTW, we still haven't received yet), here are a few generalities about the show in general.
- The show is hosted by "Comedy Guru" Kurtis Matthews. Nothing against the guy. He's nice enough and a good teacher. We've been in the comedy biz for a few years and know people in the business in different parts of the country. Not that we're seasoned professionals, but we've been around. Nobody we know has ever heard of him. Even people in San Francisco, where his Comedy College is based.
- In this first episode, they make the comedian Lorcan McGrane look like an idiot. The "reality" of this is that he's one of the best comedians we've seen over here. And certainly better, more entertaining and more original than any of the comedians who didn't get "made redundant" during the show.
- We gave the producers of the show the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't going to be a typical reality show. We were wrong.
- The show's producer's said that anyone could audition, regardless of how much experience they have in comedy. But the premise of the show is that Kurtis is going to take untried comedians and get them ready in time for Edinburgh. Which means that, in actuality, they DON'T want experienced comedians. Or comedians in the over 30 demographic (we're still 29 here at Freedom Haters).
That's all well and good, but next time TELL EVERYONE THIS INSTEAD OF MAKING THEM AUDITION FOR 13 HOURS STRAIGHT. You wasted your time and you wasted our time doing it this way.
The worst part? After we finished the auditions we got out too late to even get a drink at The Crown, which was right next door.
Anyway, here's the second episode in all it's glory.
