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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'jerryspringer'

January 30, 2008

We finally got to realize our lifelong dream of hearing "inbreed three-nipple cousin-fucker" reverberate off the hallowed walls of Carnegie Hall last night at the two-nights-only Jerry Springer: The Opera In Concert. Too bad no one told headliner Harvey Keitel he was welcome to join us. Fumbling--when he wasn't downright forgetting--his lines, accidentally knocking over a trumpet, and never seeming present on stage, Keitel was mercifully the only low point in an otherwise glorious......

Continue Reading "When Harvey Keitel is Jerry Springer at Carnegie Hall"

January 25, 2008

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League – a group that exists to promote Bill Donohue, er, prevent “virulent anti-Catholicism” – is leading a protest against Jerry Springer: The Opera, which will be performed at Carnegie Hall on January 29th and 30th and stars Harvey Keitel as Springer. The show chronicles Jerry Springer’s adventures in hell, where he's forced to host an outrageous talk show whose guests include Adam and Eve, Mary, Jesus, and, as......

Continue Reading "Jerry Springer: The Opera Condemned by Catholic League"

July 18, 2007

The Post updates the story about the kid whose mom wants him held back a year! Anthony Hassell's father Victor Raimo called Post reporter Chuck Bennett to complain about his estranged wife's tactics discussing their son's 60.53 seventh grade average. Raimo said, "A normal mother doesn't do this, especially when she is a dropout of her own. My son shouldn't be embarrassed - it should be her." But the kicker is that Raimo called from......

Continue Reading "Bad Student's Dad Disses Flunky Mom"

June 3, 2007

A look at some noteworthy television this week: 2007 MTV Movie Awards (Sunday, 8 p.m., MTV) All you have to know is that Sarah Silverman hosts, so expect wackiness to ensue. Bonus: LAist will be liveblogging, from the ceremony's greenroom. Creature Comforts (Monday, 8:00 p.m., WCBS 2) An Americanized British import from the creators of Wallace & Gromit where people in on the street interviews are animated in clay in the form of talking animals.......

Continue Reading "Noteworthy Television This Week: A Big Dose of Fakeality"

August 10, 2006

Name, age, occupation, where are you from and where do you live now. Jessica Lynn Johnson, Actress/Playwright, From St. Louis Missouri, lived in Astoria NY for a little over a year now. You're in "Oblivious To Everyone," a play at the upcoming Fringe Festival - can you tell us a little about the project? How did you come up with the idea? As a teenager, I was definitely a self-proclaimed smut-a-holic, tuning in to every......

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July 21, 2006

Alan Corey has been on five different reality TV shows, owns a bar, once ate Ramen noodles for three months straight, has had his own one man show, buys and sells real estate, and once pretended to have a magazine so that he could see Outkast for free. When is it that you made your Jerry Springer appearance? That was in my junior year of college in 1998. That all came about because my......

Continue Reading "Alan Corey, Real Estate Investor, Bar Owner, Writer, Comedian, Reality TV Show Personality, and Bargain Hunter"

February 6, 2004


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