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UNBELIEVABLE: 1ST COMEDY AWARDS TO AIR APRIL 10TH AND SIMULCAST ON 7 NETWORKS

gregg75

gregg75

What the heck? Has somebody lost their mind?

sitcomesonline.com is reporting that the first Comedy Awards will air on Sunday, April 10 from
9-11pm ET on many Viacom networks. Laugh out loud with TV Land as they simulcast The Comedy Awards in partnership with Comedy Central and sister networks Spike TV, VH1, CMT, Logo, and Nick at Nite! The inaugural award show is set to honor all things humor, recognizing some of the funniest names in film and television today. Hot in Cleveland star Betty White is just one of the hilarious and talented nominees selected by The Comedy Board of Directors, a hysterical group that includes Ray Romano, Joan Rivers, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, and Don Rickles among others.
 
...hunh? The First American Comedy Awards (IIRC) ceremony was on ABC in 1974-75, with Alan King as emcee...
 
...hunh? The First American Comedy Awards (IIRC) ceremony was on ABC in 1974-75, with Alan King as emcee...
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I remember those! Paul Lynde was voted "Funniest Man In America". That particular awards show didn't run too many years, did it?
 
Wow.... This is the ultimate wallet-raping of the pay tv subscriber. Paying for a slew of channels that only end up showing the same program. It's kind of like paying for one bottle of milk at the grocery store... for the price of seven bottles. Shame on Viacom.
 
Wow. This ranks right up there with four cable channels airing the movie "Grease" at the same time... I believe it just happened that way...

What's next, "Comedy All-Stars To The Rescue"? Watch as Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Lisa Lampanelli try to persuade a teenager not to start dealing drugs... (Of course, I refer to "Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue," which originally aired on two dozen networks.)
 
gregg75 said:
...Laugh out loud with TV Land as they simulcast The Comedy Awards in partnership with Comedy Central and sister networks Spike TV, VH1, CMT, Logo, and Nick at Nite!
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Who knew that, for once, MTV would be the sane network!
 
I'll break out my Spike Jones rips during the time this dreck airs.
Guaranteed to be a whole lot funnier too.

This program will be even more self serving and fellating than the Oscars, Grammys, Tonys and Celebrity Apprentice combined!
 
Robnoxious said:
This program will be even more self serving and fellating than the Oscars, Grammys, Tonys and Celebrity Apprentice combined!
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Especially if the nominees or guests either have a show on a Viacom network, a film coming out (especially a Paramount picture), or an upcoming single or record album. Nick's "Kids' Choice Awards" is practically rife with stars who are there with something to sell.
 
That's just like asking why O'Reilly, Hannity, Blitzer and Cooper don't air on MSNBC - after all, that is "the place for politics." ::)
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
Will it be live, or three hours old, on the left coast and some
Mountain Time Zone cable systems?
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There's nothing worse than getting a comedy awards show pre-recorded from an East Coast feed, three hours stale, is there?
If it's any consolation, it was probably recorded a month ago, and none of it will be "live" to anyone. As a result, Paul Lynde is liable to win a couple of awards this time 'round too! ;D
 
KentBrockman said:
Wow.... This is the ultimate wallet-raping of the pay tv subscriber. Paying for a slew of channels that only end up showing the same program. It's kind of like paying for one bottle of milk at the grocery store... for the price of seven bottles. Shame on Viacom.
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Given its nutritional value and the value of cable tv, I think "drain cleaner" would have been a better analogy. ;)
 
quadraphonic said:
If it's any consolation, it was probably recorded a month ago, and none of it will be "live" to anyone.
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On that point, if you miss it the first time, it'll be repeated several times again on each of the channels that carried it the first time.

Simulcasting an event over several channels is so 1980s, as many cable systems have all the channels carrying the event, and they be DVR'd for later.
 
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