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Fallon is so milquetoast in everything he does, I have no idea how he is as popular as he is but then again Leno was aggressively unfunny and he always had better numbers than Letterman.
 
A question I posed to some friends recently but no one has a good answer, why is it that Trump never goes after Jon Stewart and especially the South Park guys?
 
bigbailes said:
A question I posed to some friends recently but no one has a good answer, why is it that Trump never goes after Jon Stewart and especially the South Park guys?
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Yet...

In all seriousness, I imagine both JS and SP have excellent contracts. Trump is close to the new owners of Paramount, the company that has the broadcast rights to both shows. If there were a way he could get them off the air, he would. Also, I believe that cable channels don't have the same rules as OTA channels. But I could be wrong on that.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Yet...

In all seriousness, I imagine both JS and SP have excellent contracts. Trump is close to the new owners of Paramount, the company that has the broadcast rights to both shows. If there were a way he could get them off the air, he would. Also, I believe that cable channels don't have the same rules as OTA channels. But I could be wrong on that.
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They don't have the same rules as Over The Air channels do but he bitches and moans an awful lot about CNN/MSNBC and a bunch of other stations/shows that mock him to no end but he never really goes after JS or SP. Trump might have a decent relationship with the new owners of Paramount (Ellisons) but he seemed to be pretty combative with the old owners (Sherry Redstone) and routinely went after 60 Minutes that is also a Paramount property.
 
I believe ABC cancelled Bill Maher's original show Politically Incorrect as well if I'm not mistaken.
 
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bigbailes said:
His job isn't to dare them ... it's be a comedian and entertainer. He tried to state something as fact that is far from known at this point and he didn't even attempt to do it in a funny manner. You can get away with saying a lot of offensive stuff, as long as it's funny and he didn't even try to make it funny. Should he have been taken off the air, no but he also thumbed his nose at a very touchy subject and is now reaping the consequences. The government has overstepped their bounds in a big way but the affiliates not wanting him on their airwaves is just business. If Trump/FCC hadn't said anything but the affiliates pulled him, would you have an issue?
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I would have no issue at all if there were no government pressure. Not even a bit.

And to be clear, I don't mean the job he's getting paid for, I mean his job as a patriot. As an American. One of the jobs that are more important than the job that you're getting paid for.
 
riverman said:
I’ll give a shout out to Craig Ferguson. The late night host who truly gave zero fucks
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Craig Ferguson is up there for me because he had ALL the honeys hot and bothered on his show. I've only seen clips but it's non-stop... How did he work that out?
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Yet...

In all seriousness, I imagine both JS and SP have excellent contracts. Trump is close to the new owners of Paramount, the company that has the broadcast rights to both shows. If there were a way he could get them off the air, he would. Also, I believe that cable channels don't have the same rules as OTA channels. But I could be wrong on that.
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The FCC only controls ota channels, in this regard. Thats why you hear swearing on cable channels, because the FCC can't do shit about it. The reason for the limited swearing was more out of respect.
 
riverman said:
I believe ABC cancelled Bill Maher's original show Politically Incorrect as well if I'm not mistaken.
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Someone might have already addressed this, but politically correct was taken off the air because Bill said the pilots who flew the planes were actually brave. And at that point in our history they were looking for any reason to get rid of dissenting voices.
 
False dichotomies are my favorite kind of tomies.

For those curious, vasectomies are my least favorite.
 
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