If you didn't think Keith Olbermann could get any more insufferable, then you didn't watch his appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman last night. While he admitted, "I screwed up. I screwed up really big on this," and "It’s my fault that it didn’t succeed in the sense that I didn’t think the whole thing through," he discussed his $10 million/year salary (part of a $50 million/5-year contract he wants Current TV to commit to), "I didn’t say, ‘You know, if you buy a $10 million chandelier, you should have a house to put it in.' Just walking around with a $10 million chandelier isn’t going to do anybody a lot of good." more ›

In the wake of Keith Olbermann's dismissal from Current TV, The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz has obtained email correspondence between Olbermann's camp and the network's staff. Though there are no mentions of California Condor-egg omelets, Kurtz finds that shortly after Olbermann was hired last summer, his manager sent a list of 40 "deficiencies" that needed "immediate attention." more ›

We've spent the better part of today curled in a ball, surrounded by our hardcover copies of Pitchforks and Torches, wondering where it all went wrong. How could Current TV do this to Keith "Just a Regular Guy" Olbermann? Based on various reports, it sounds as if Keith didn't feel like working for a low-budget TV network—and that low-budget TV network, headed up by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, were tired of putting up with a high-maintenance talking head. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Current TV has suddenly axed Keith Olbermann, whose show will be replaced by a new program hosted by former governor Eliot Spitzer, starting tonight. In an open letter to viewers, Current's founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt wrote, "We’re very excited to announce that beginning tonight, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer will host 'Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer,' at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT. Eliot is a veteran public servant and an astute observer of the issues of the day." And his last TV show was such a hit, this one can't miss! more ›

Keith Olbermann returned to cable television last night with his Current TV version of Countdown with Keith Olbermann. The former ESPN anchor-turned-vocal libtard left MSNBC in January and announced his move to Al Gore's network in April. His show is pretty much the same as before, if only on a different channel, and he's still "madder than hell." His first "Worst Persons In The World" segment featured everyone's favorite "very well-educated" Metro-North rider, Hermon Raju (see video below), but to some MSNBC viewers, Olbermann is a Worst Person for running four minutes in the 9 p.m. Rachel Maddow hour! more ›

Three months after leaving MSNBC, number one libtard Keith Olbermann has announced his return to airwaves today in a video at his website, FOKNewsChannel, FOK being "Friends of Keith." The new show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann (hmm, that's familiar), will start on June 20 on the small cable network Current TV. He explained, "I wanted to go somewhere where i could expand upon and enlarge upon the work I'd already done...a place where journalistic integrity and analytical honesty would never be compromised by corporate synergy... I found that place at Current TV... where they gave me a title, an equity stake, and a PONY." more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Former MSNBC news host Keith Olbermann will announce his next move in just a few minutes. (There's a countdown clock here for all you Olberfanns.) But Media Decoder already knows the gist of what he's going to say: Olbermann is going to have a show on Current TV, the editorially progressive network founded by former Vice President Al Gore in 2005. Compared to 85 million MSNBC viewers, Current, um, currently has about 60 million, and unlike MSNBC, it doesn't come with basic cable. So if a liberal bloviates in the forest and only treehuggers are there to hear him, does really he make a sound? more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Today, former president Bill Clinton met North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. Clinton made the surprise trip to the isolated Communist nation to discuss the release of two American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were sentenced to 12 years in labor camps for illegally entering North Korea. more ›

Jen Kirkman does it all. Hilarious stand up, talented improviser, and a terrific writer. She's in town to do some stand up and to perform at UCB's 9th Annual Del Close Marathon and Gothamist sat down with this triple threat from LA to discuss growing up on a golf course, the pursuit of fame, and sassing customers. more ›

Quality of Life, the graf film that explores the legitimacy of "street art" and laws that criminalize it, hits New York streets April 6, or more specifically...the Pioneer Theater. more ›

Whoa-- busy Sunday night! Yesterday we told you about Charlie Todd's No Pants 2006 Subway Ride-- one of his more famous ImprovEverywhere projects. The plan for today was to ride from Brooklyn Bridge to 125th Street on the 6, and then turn around and come back down. Sadly, the fuzz busted the event up and nabbed six of Charlie's agents at 59th Street! Presta Cottage Industries has the details: more ›

Tonight at midnight Al Gore's TV network, Current TV (not to be confused with the reincarnated A Current Affair), is set to debut on channel 103 on Time Warner, 366 on DirecTV. Intended to be "the television homepage for the internet generation" the new channel has gotten a lot of press since it was announced mostly because of Gore's name. The format for the new network is apparently a series of "pods" (ugh, they mean clips of five or so minutes) created by professionals and amateurs who upload to the Current site. Every half hour there will be a news update based on the most popular news searches on Google. more ›