Earlier this month it was announced that Jerry Lewis would not be hosting the annual MDA Labor Day Telethon, something he has done every year since 1966, and people like me were upset.
So I wondered how they would replace him and if the show would go on. It will be televised but only for 6 hours instead of the usual 22 hours. And according to Norm Clarke the show will be hosted by Nigel Lythgoe, the man who made me give up his show So You Think You Can Dance because I can’t stand looking at huge capped teeth and listen to him hit on girls that are old enough to be his granddaughter and diss the other contestants because he loves to hear himself talk. He will not be alone because the fake Nancy O’Dell will be there too along with Alison Sweeney.
Nigel Lythgoe used his other job to get American Idol personalities Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler, Randy Jackson and Jordin Sparks to be part of the event. Besides the American Idol people other entertainers that will be there are Celine Dion, Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker, Martina McBride, Jon Secada, Richie Sambora, Jimmy Webb, Michael Feinstein, Maureen McGovern, and Greyson Chance.
Will you be watching the last televised MDA Labor Telethon when it airs on September 4th or will you dismiss the show like they dismissed Jerry Lewis? Seriously who thinks the show will be back next year after this year’s sh!tty line up?
UPDATE: Norm Clarke is reporting that Jerry Lewis will be part of this year’s MDA Telethon, but did not say how.
Part of me wonders if this whole thing was a PR stunt to get people to watch the telethon that losers viewers every year. Than the other part of me thinks that the networks that will be running the 6 hour telethon demanded that he back on the telecast. I think the latter is the scenario that happened. What do you think happened???
Whatever the reason, I will be at bar-be-que during the telethon because this whole thing left a bad taste in mouth and I want to fill it with something yummy.
UPDATE 2:Norm Clarke is saying today that Jerry Lewis was going to be asked to close the telethon sing You’ll Never Walk Again, but his rep says, “As far I know, there’s no involvement on his part.” Maybe it will be a surprise ending for the few people that might actually watch the telethon. Shame all this behind the scenes drama is ruining something that actually does good.
Gerard Depardieu was on a plane going from Paris to Dublin and he really had to go, so much so he stood up and went in his seat. According to AFP a witness on the plane described the incident with the Green Card actor who left a yellow stain on the plane floor.
The 62-year-old was visibly inebriated and tried to stand up before take-off, when passengers are asked to wear seatbelts, declaring: “I want to piss, I want to piss.”
When a stewardess asked him to sit and wait 15 minutes until the jet took off and reached cruising altitude, he said he could not wait. “And there and then he stood up and did it on the floor,” she told the French broadcaster.
“We could see he had been drinking. The stewardess was dumbfounded,” she added. “No-one said anything. It all happened with courtesy. Mr Depardieu sat back down and the plane returned to the parking area to be cleaned.”
The passengers had to wait two hours to clean up his mess, and it will take a lot longer for Depardieu to clean up his act. What he did was so disgusting, I don’t care how drunk you are there is no excuse to do what he did.
BTW AFP said the airline confirmed the incident and were unsure at this time if they would further action against him. I hope they do because acts like that should not be tolerated in my opinion.
Ever since it was announced that NY is finally allowing same-sex marriages, people have been wanting Bert and Ernie to finally tie the knot. It has even gone as far as with a petition with over 5,000 signatures asking that that the two Sesame Street puppets get married. Well today Sesame Workshop issued a statement saying that ain’t going to happen. They wrote on Facebook, “Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppetsâ„¢ do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.” And to that I say if Kermit and Miss Piggy can get it on, why can’t Bert and Ernie? I say it is 2011 it is OK for them to finally admit that they are more than just “friends”, so let them do it!!! They might not be anatomically correct, but that doesn’t mean they can’t have love in their lives. After all they are fisted up their butts all the time! Well they are, aren’t they?
Back in Miami Rick Sanchez was known for saying “Shocking shocking news” and boy did he make some about himself. Yesterday Rick Sanchez was on Stand-Up with Pete Dominick and he called Jon Stewart a bigot and said this about his former bosses, “I’m telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority? Yeah,” so CNN fired him today. After listening to the interview in its entirety, I completely think CNN made the right decision. If you listen to that interview, you will hear that he said more offensive things during the chat than the quotes that were picked up by the media. He obviously has a huge a$$ chip on his shoulder and needs to get over it.
Well I guess on a positive note for him now he has more time to promote his book, that is if anyone still wants to read it???
We have all thought at one point that Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband, Frederic von Anhalt is a little eccentric, and now we might have some proof of that? According to Brietbart he wants his wife to be plastinated after she dies. He reportedly told Bild, “My wife has always dreamt that her beauty would be immortal,” he said, “I would like to show the plastinated body of Zsa Zsa Gabor in the context of a scene in one of her films.” OK, I am totally creeped out by that if it is true especially because I looked up what plastination is and here you can check out Gunther von Hagen’s (the man who would reportedly do the deed) website about it.
I always thought taxidermy was disgusting, but plastination is even more horrifying. OK, I need a new image in my head…cute living kitties playing with awwwdorable living babies…oh sh!t why is that image turning into zombies wanting to eat my brains. Help…
