Craig Kilborn censored for airing Arnold Schwarzenegger parody
Published August 27, 2003
The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn was recently censored by CBS for airing a parody of one of California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign ads. Worried that CBS would be required to air "equal time" ads for the other 134 candidates, the network pulled the plug on the spot, but the studio audience got to see the fun, which involved "closed captioning" of Arnold's heavily accented speech:
"Dis hysterical erection his come bout becuz deres a tree men dos dis connect between da peep hole of Cauliflower and da readers of Cauliflower...""Weed a peep hole arrr! dewey hour job, verking hod ... and paying toxics. But de pomegranates Arnold mooving tear jobs. We candle butter den dot. After fall, we are Colin Farrell.
"I stand for fiscal irresponsible government ...reap-hilling California's eco-gnomic enzyme, potting the knees of children thirst and informing our political sister so dat da puppet interest comes before spetzel internss.
"I want to eat the peep hole's governor."
- Craig Kilborn censored for airing Arnold Schwarzenegger parody
- Published: August 27, 2003
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Last Thursday Howard Stern was talking about how CBS wouldn't let him have Arnold on for an interview for the same reasons. I understand the rules and why they are there, but it seems a bit ridiculous to me. What shows have to abide by this and which ones don't? I mean Jimmy Kimmel had Gary Coleman on the show. Not to be confused with a skit, but actually had the miniature human on the show.
I don't understand the rules.
Any Gary Coleman appearance is most likely analogous to a no-name rapper sampling coppyrighted material or an independent film using copyrighted music - it's just not a big enough threat to go through the trouble of preventing.
On topic, this transcript looks hilarious.
Coleman appeared on the Kimmel show before the race *officially* began.
GE (#4), I'm not so sure. I seem to remember the race being on already.
Jimmy did get into a little beef at first with ABC execs, and there were all sorts of things about showing four seconds or less of any candidate to avoid equal time laws, but I noticed as time went on, they started showing longer and longer clips of Arnold, or the same short clip repeatedly.
Stuff and nonsense! By the time anyone could have complained, the 'campaign' would have been over. Somebody just didn't want to criticized by Schwarzenegger's 'peep hole.'
Love the parody. Cauliflower indeed!
MD, not necessarily nonsense. Violations of those laws carry hefty fines, and network execs are not known for taking chances.
The laws may be nonsensical, or not, but the consequences can be real, and really scary.
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Damn, that sounds funny ;) This equal opportunity thing doesn't apply to the internet, so somebody should get that badboy up on a website and let the blogosphere take over. Mary Carey has the best candidate website that I've seen so far.