Gosh, running an enormous and rapacious media empire can be a pain the caboose sometimes. So many little details to keep track of, it’s no wonder that guys like Mike Eisner and me step on some toes along the way. But here’s what you need to know, good shareholders:
- Tomorrow night, at 8:30, will be the World Premiere of Smoking Gun TV’s Year-End Special! Though my official involvement ended a few days ago, the last rough cut I saw was looking pretty darned good. It really was a joy to work on. And as a special bonus, the astute viewer might just catch a glimpse yours truly as a maitre d’.
- To answer a frequent question or two: No, I won’t be at the “Wait Wait” in Chicago this week. And no, it has nothing to do with last week’s “Santagate.” [Listen to ‘Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank.’]
- Clearing a name: A few days ago, a reader posted an extremely impolite and somewhat uncharitable comment here. The allegation that FelbCo’s CEO was a “sick fuck” was floated. You, dear readers, leapt to my defense, and for that I’m grateful, even if you all missed the opportunity to make a quip along the lines that I was, in fact, “an extremely hale and hearty fuck.” No matter. My point is that the offending commentator was then pilloried for “spamming” the comments sections of this site. This he did not do; it was perpetrated in his name by a scurrilous (if fairly amusing) Third Party. So, to sum up (so we can all move on): Yes, the guy behaved like a bit of an ass. But only once.
Fanny Roborat
19 comments
michael (in DC)
December 16, 2003 at 4:43 pm
1I must confess I would be afraid I might be hearing from an unhappy Mrs. Felber, were I to testify to Adam’s haleness or heartiness in fuck terms…
Murray
December 16, 2003 at 5:58 pm
2Yea, but what a ride! Over 100 comments, lots of great quotes, some extremely well thought out and well written ideas, (so well written in fact that I’m sure I’ll cut and paste them elsewhere and take credit for them myself).
Even God himself chimed in.
tess
December 16, 2003 at 8:08 pm
3we’re always happy to defend you from those who would smear you like dog feces on a sidewalk!
so if mr. “sick fuck” perpetrator is off-limits because he didn’t actually perpetrate the remaining spam, do we at least get permission to continue ragging on mr. “i think bush is god’s gift to america, but i’m not a right-winger?”
Chicory
December 17, 2003 at 9:37 am
4Aw, heck. Let’s just rag on France. It is always open season on them
Adam,
Glad we could be of service. What good is it to be part of a campaign if you wouldn’t support your candidate? Hey, maybe your slogan can be “Felber: He’s a hale and hearty…..”
Educated Comedian
December 17, 2003 at 1:47 pm
5… Candidate?”
julie
December 17, 2003 at 3:27 pm
6Or perhaps we could quit using the ugly and misogynistic expression “rag on”?
Susanna Goodman
December 17, 2003 at 3:43 pm
7I heard last week’s foul prevention of your winning Wait Wait. I had noticed the story & knew what Peter was doing, but the Santa question violated all of what seem to be the show’s principles of presenting weird news in a totally accurate matter (except for the known lies segment). You may inform Peter & Carl that I believe Charlie should be stripped of his ill-gotten prize & it should be awarded to the victim of their scurrilous cheat!
Rana
December 17, 2003 at 4:26 pm
8As the person who “pilloried” Tom Bridge for spamming, I do apologize. (And I did post an apology — I guess no one saw it.) It wasn’t my intention to make an innocent victim look bad; it was a probably knee-jerk reaction to feeling like the comment threads were being hijacked. In retrospect I probably should have just emailed you, Adam — it would have been more discrete and probably more effective.
Anonymous
December 17, 2003 at 4:28 pm
9I can’t believe the travesty that was the obvious pro-cruxifiction bias of the Wait Wait staff… Its getting so you can’t be near a Home Depot anymore if Wait Wait is it town. I am already dreading what Easter will be like.
OK this off topic but, to cure your blues from not having Saddam to look for anymore… Rejoice children! Now you too can play along with all your baseball card heros in the austere halls of our government!
tess
December 17, 2003 at 7:38 pm
10Rana,
hmm, i guess i should also apologize to tom bridge for calling him “stupid” and “lazy.” hmm, wait, but he still made that initial comment. would it still be okay to call him “stupid” for not understanding adam, or should i call him “lazy” for apparently not reading the post thoroughly?
as for “ragging on,” i never thought of it in those terms. well, that explains a lot.
Dee
December 17, 2003 at 9:42 pm
11Anybody else miss John Ciardi?
John Isbell
December 17, 2003 at 10:18 pm
12Miss John Ciardi? I wasn’t even trying for John Ciardi.
“Good grief, the comedian’s a bear!”
“No he’s a-not, he’s-a wearing a bow tie!”
Chicory
December 18, 2003 at 9:19 am
13Ba da bump! (Wire for Kermit the Frog. Wire for Kermit.)
My apologies, Julie. I’ll do my best to use razz in place of rag. (Funny, I always had the mental picture of someone being swatted with a rag whenever I heard ‘rag on’ used.)
Murray
December 18, 2003 at 10:18 am
14Rag, never dawned on me either. Well I’ll have to add it to the rest of the words I can no longer use in public. (I’d list them but I guess I can’t)
Adam,
Saw your 1.6 second appearance on Smoking Gun. You did great (I guess, it was kind of fast).
When do you get your own show?
Alli
December 18, 2003 at 11:59 am
15http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/2003/12/18/
Here’s to a year of sin in your life, Adam!
Ras_Nesta
December 18, 2003 at 1:22 pm
16Murray, Adam f-ing owns “Wait Wait”, trick questions and all!
adam
December 18, 2003 at 2:22 pm
17Murray -
Beyond the 1.5 seconds, I also wrote most of the show. The scripted parts, at least.
Though it didn’t turn out exactly as I’d hoped, I was pretty happy with it, particularly the field pieces. All-in-all, a very good experience.
Landis
December 18, 2003 at 3:14 pm
18Any chance we’ll ever get to see highlights broadcast on the web?
No cable and loving life (though I do occasionally miss Comedy Central and a couple others).
Sara J
December 19, 2003 at 1:25 am
19I vote with Landis. No TV (!) and too busy to care most of the time, but gimme snippets of the good stuff online so I don’t become a total pop-culture orphan!
I think the WWDTM people were out to knock Adam off his high horse, after all he did win how many times in a row until last week?! It was still inexcusable. He said “falsely”! We all heard! Get’em next time, Adam.