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‘The hell you say?’ NBC reportedly wanted Jon Stewart to host MTP
According to New York Magazine, that pretty much sums it up:
Unreal. RT @sahilkapur: "NBC was prepared to offer Stewart virtually ‘anything' to bring him over.” http://t.co/KQTSLP7wNx
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) October 8, 2014
From the Daily Intelligencer:
Before choosing Todd, NBC News president Deborah Turness held negotiations with Jon Stewart about hosting Meet the Press, according to three senior television sources with knowledge of the talks. One source explained that NBC was prepared to offer Stewart virtually “anything” to bring him over. “They were ready to back the Brinks truck up,” the source said. A spokesperson for NBC declined to comment. James Dixon, Stewart’s agent, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Dang. That’s a juicy little news nugget, isn’t it?
The hell you say? pic.twitter.com/FQXbVzyUv6
— Matthew (@Matthops82) October 8, 2014
.@TheDailyShow Can't wait for your segment tearing apart NBC fro trying to hire a comedian to host Meet the Press https://t.co/CHQzub6I4g
— Anthony Eboly (@AnthonyBialy) October 8, 2014
OMG. NBC wanted Jon Stewart to host Meet The Press. Oh journalism, how far have you fallen? That’s just pathetic.
— Heather (@hboulware) October 8, 2014
NBC is a reputable news organization. Tough and completely not biased. That's why they wanted Jon Stewart to host Meet the Press. #wait
— RB (@RBPundit) October 8, 2014
Eh, it’s NBC.
Jon Stewart deadpans to camera at thought of NBC hiring him to host Meet the Press (suggested segment title: Bleat the Press)
— Anthony Eboly (@AnthonyBialy) October 8, 2014
Jon Stewart hosting Meet the Press would mean it's just as unintentionally funny.
— Anthony Eboly (@AnthonyBialy) October 8, 2014
So nothing would really change, then.
Jon Stewart hosting a Sunday morning political show is just as unbelievable as having George Stephanopoulos host one. Oh wait…
— Andrew Johnson (@AndrewE_Johnson) October 8, 2014
If people are dumb enough to get their news from Jon Stewart, does it really matter which channel they tune into to do it?
— A.J. Winkelspecht (@ajwink) October 8, 2014
Good point.
Sure, Stewart is a clown. Maybe MTP would do better with a clown. Didja think of that?
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) October 8, 2014
They sure as heck couldn’t do much worse.
Kudos to NBC for thinking outside the box w/ the Jon Stewart idea. The old Sunday morning show model is deader than dead.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) October 8, 2014
Jon Stewart is no more a liberal hack than David Gregory. And Stewart is more respectable.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) October 8, 2014
Fair enough!
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The #ParksAndRec Cast Had 20 Seconds To Compliment One Another
Amy Poehler, Adam Scott, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, Retta, Nick Offerman, Aziz Ansari, Jim O’Heir, and Parks and Recreation specialist producer Mike Schur couldn’t feature their unique ideas during a post-finale look on evening With Seth Meyers.
1. After Parks and Recreation reveal finale on Feb. 24, the entire cast, with manager producer Mike Schur, emerged on night With Seth Meyers.
2. And reminiscing and exposing funny reports from final seven years, they took turns toasting one another… in only 20 seconds. Let me share their wonderful terms:
3. Aziz Ansari on Nick Offerman
“An amazing individual. He previously a brilliant mustache, that could be fucking gone these days. We informed him to provide it in the event that you ask me wherein he didn’t. But he’s however a fantastic man and I’m anticipated to miss with the solutions of him.”
4. Retta on Aubrey Plaza
“Aubrey Plaza can frighten the shit out-of individuals who have simply a look. But she in fact is, in precise, the sweetest, numerous darling, loveliest, kindest, [with] the maximum heart, and she’s going to get anyone to cry instantly.”
5. Nick Offerman on Adam Scott
“Adam Scott is very rather. He’s got the funniest dried out game. Also during celebration Down, when there is certainly email shops throughout the cast … i’d laugh aloud at their particular attempts toward email stores. The large choice of cast, uh, biggest balls.”
6. Mike Schur on Amy Poehler
“Solid B-plus skill. Not gifted. Maybe not demonstrably gifted, but, like, kinda grinded it. I favor this girl more than anyone in the world and I’m consequently satisfied we obtained hook up.”
7. Chris Pratt on Jim O’Heir
“You tend to be genuine, extremely thoughtful. You’re an incredible current giver. You’re outstanding listener. You’re a great friend, and you’re a spokesman for system. When anyone hit you on range, you’re constantly sort to every and each and every certain individual. You’re sensitive and don’t allow anybody formerly make us feel bad about this. I have to state i do believe that’s awesome.”
8. Aubrey Plaza on Aziz Ansari
“I have Aziz Ansari, and I’m in fact happy about this because Aziz, I’ve comprehended you plenty over anybody because of this sort. We discovered you once I had been positively, like, 18 or 19, and we’ve skilled such shit. You’re my bro completely. 2-3 weeks hence i enjoy you above one thing. You’re funny and we’re both diverse, consequently we have that choosing usa. You’re the most truly effective. And I’m in fact pleased you didn’t rest below because I’m gonna skip you resting every-where. That’s finished . I’ll remember.”
9. Adam Scott on Mike Schur
“Mike is an extremely forgiving specific. We auditioned when it comes to pilot of Parks and Rec and performed a terrible task and mayn’t have the task. Formerly we happened to be on an outrageous system, a tremendously genuine about tv program, and I also in addition bear in mind if we read … it had been individuals from any office undertaking a new television system, we remember phoning my agent and I also additionally reported, ‘i want that get us through tv system I’m on because i do want to be on whatever which.’ Got the audition, blew it, and, like, annually . 5 later on, Mike requested us getting in through the system and it’s merely changed my life. I got eventually to utilize a people. I must say I do miss every person these types of. I’m consequently thrilled to complete off being your buddy, Mike.”
10. Jim O’Heir on Chris Pratt
“Chris Pratt had been only for sale in a spot; he formerly been laying in a very space. Here’s the actual fact: he formerly already been consequently loving that forms of outstanding individual afterwards; he’s nowadays one of the greatest celebrities in freakin’ world and he’s comparable individual he’d already been considering the fact that area. And I also also represent when using the love. There’s no body kinder or maybe more gracious than Chris Pratt. I love him with my heart.”
11. Amy Poehler on Retta
“A queen. A phenomenal particular, buddy, cast specific, and implies an individual we didn’t comprehension and now i’m like is family relations. Everybody feel house for me. I’m going to be consequently recognized and entirely overrun by simply how much I like both both you and will cherish you permanently. And also this comprehension on Parks [has] already been perfect reference to my entire life … i recently desire thank the supporters, those who held our television show within the environment, and which saw it till the conclusion. Retta, we choose you, and I also also additionally love everybody below. Congratulations to any or all or any.”
12. No, thank-you, Amy Poehler and cast and staff of Parks and Recreation for seven funny, pressing, and near-perfect months!
(with no, we don’t have idea the reason Jim O’Heir and Aubrey Plaza have been making telephone call at shutting moments of tonight’s expose. Reflect on it one final present from folks of Pawnee?)
do have more information: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/parks-and-rec-cast-series-finale-toast
How convenient! MSM ignores that trapped scientists were researching climate change
There’s been quite a bit of buzz lately about the plight of scientists trapped in Antarctic ice. But if you were relying purely on the MSM for news, you may very well have missed the fact that those scientists were climate change researchers. For some inexplicable reason, MSMers left that little detail out of their reports.
http://twitter.com/#!/ABC7/status/419047512746385408CBS opted for the “passengers” designation as well:
http://twitter.com/#!/CBSNews/status/419120292997656576As did NBC, which also referred to the researchers as “voyagers”:
http://twitter.com/#!/NBCNews/status/419080766744952834Even Fox News linked to an Associated Press report that revealed only that the “passengers” were scientists — but not what type of scientists they were:
http://twitter.com/#!/FoxNews/status/418733496811913216In fact, NewsBusters reported that between December 25 and January 2, only one out of 41 network morning and evening reports made any mention of the purpose of the expedition.
What’s up with that?
http://twitter.com/#!/RC5ipple/status/419153115745513472 http://twitter.com/#!/bocabelo/status/419112004108816384 http://twitter.com/#!/CoolCzech1/status/419106933401214976Do your job, media.
http://twitter.com/#!/charlescwcooke/status/419145944744353792 http://twitter.com/#!/charlescwcooke/status/419146045520896000***
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NBC News’ Mark Murray: O-care ‘opponents have actually only control of the airwaves’
Yeah … also bad that’s never ended him prior to.
NBC News’ senior political editor Mark Murray has noticed that Obamacare has actuallyn’t been faring particularly really into the public arena. So, this morning, he put-on his thinking cap to find out the reason why.
Here’s exactly what he developed:
http://twitter.com/#!/mmurraypolitics/status/456080951509274624 http://twitter.com/#!/mmurraypolitics/status/456081355668197376 http://twitter.com/#!/mmurraypolitics/status/456082550679953408“Unilateral control of the airwaves.” If anybody requires us, we’ll be over right here. Laughing hysterically.
http://twitter.com/#!/eriContrarian/status/456084515337687040It’s definitely a very good competitor.
http://twitter.com/#!/flyoverangel/status/456086231344881665 http://twitter.com/#!/michi83/status/456081657817477120 http://twitter.com/#!/RBPundit/status/456081881189339136 http://twitter.com/#!/shaner5000/status/456085574139392000 http://twitter.com/#!/OneTonTurtle/status/456089060474236928 http://twitter.com/#!/rdbrewer4/status/456086721604509696 http://twitter.com/#!/baldingschemer/status/456086956577792001Awww.
http://twitter.com/#!/NoahWehrman/status/456088552967651328Wonder if those caps fit over the blindfold and earplugs Murray has evidently already been wearing all of this time.
http://twitter.com/#!/eriContrarian/status/456085648818987008 http://twitter.com/#!/BecketAdams/status/456084822528888832 http://twitter.com/#!/OrwellForks/status/456086103108239360True tale. As well as the thing is, with or without “the airwaves,” it’s however painfully obvious towards the US individuals who Obamacare sucks.
http://twitter.com/#!/Artist_Angie/status/456089448892362752 http://twitter.com/#!/hboulware/status/456083679681339392 http://twitter.com/#!/atoka7/status/456094639628365824Really, to wince at his or her own stupidity, he’d need certainly to feel pity. Predicated on what we’ve seen from him so far, that’s not likely to happen any time in the future. But at the very least anything positive can still leave this:
http://twitter.com/#!/hboulware/status/456089667255795712And mockery, unlike Obamacare, is wonderful for the mind, body, and heart.
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Find out more: http://twitchy.com/2014/04/15/cant-make-this-stuff-up-nbc-news-mark-murray-o-care-opponents-have-sole-control-over-the-airwaves/
How “Parks And Recreation” Created A Futuristic Pawnee
Parks and Rec co-creator Michael Schur tells BuzzFeed how those snazzy gadgets — including Gryzzl — were brought to life.
This season has also introduced a handful of eye-catching technological inventions. So how did the creators come up with the slick designs of the not-too-distant future?
Comedy and forecasting ultimately dictated the gadgets’ form, Parks co-creator Michael Schur told BuzzFeed in a phone interview. After looking three years into the past to see how rapidly our current electronics morphed, they decided to stick to one overarching rule: No hoverboards. “That was a shorthand of saying we’re only going to 2017. This is not Bladerunner,” he added.
“It was just extrapolating into the future and reading about Oculus Rift and stuff like that that seems to portend a three-dimensional future for all of us,” Schur said.
The tablets and phones are a product of Gryzzl, a chill internet company that’s bunking in Pawnee and is an amalgamation of Google, Amazon, and social media. And while their customized Gryzzlboxes may be comedic hyperbole, they’re not too far from reality.
In one scene, Gryzzl’s CEO, played by Workaholic star Blake Anderson, nonchalantly mentions that maybe Sweetums’ cohort Jessica Wicks (Susan Yeagley) should shut her device off before going to sleep. “Every year that goes by, this stuff gets a little more creepy and a little more invasive, and we turn a little more of ourselves over to it,” says Schur.
Except for Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman), of course, whose feelings on technology were perfectly encapsulated with one scene that featured him standing in a darkened threshold holding a battered drone.
They were instructed to treat the phones and tablets like they’ve seen them a million times before. The special effects were built to match what the actors were doing, which was just randomly swiping at the plexiglass, Schur said.
But when they began to edit the show, they found even more moments of actors doing scrolling motions. “And we’re like, goddamn it, now we gotta do another visual effect, because every time they move their hand, that means that the image has to change,” Schur recalled. “It’s been really funny because it’s not their fault! They were just standing there looking at nothing, and they were reacting just the normal way they would react.”
And if you consider an iPhone 3 vintage, that’s exactly the mentality the actors were told to portray. Andy (Chris Pratt) casually cycles through the news, and Ben (Adam Scott) wafts through each of his PowerPoint slides as though this feature has been around since Microsoft launched.
“The main thing that we said to all the actors was, âThese are not interesting to you,'” he said. “Never express any amazement about what you’re seeing, because no matter how crazy and amazing we make it, to you it’s like second nature at this point.”
“The world doesn’t change that much from 2013 to 2015, and it won’t change that much from 2015 to 2017,” said Schur. “People still wear pants and shirts and still have hair and stuff like that. The tech world is the main place where you’re ever going to notice a difference.”
“[Their friendship] is sort of like the beating heart of the show, and so that was something we wanted to do this year,” he said.
As for the pivotal lock-in scene in the fourth episode of Season 7, titled “Leslie & Ron,” Schur was the one who configured the Billy Joel lyrics as a method of torture. “We tried to figure out what would make Ron really break and crack — and break his silence — and Leslie making up rapid-fire lyrics to âWe Didn’t Start the Fire’ aggressively in his face was like, âYeah, that would work,'” he said. “I think that would work on any military prisoner too.”
But Poehler was the one who nailed the “ridiculous” lines, he said. “That’s Amy Poehler for you.”
The Parks and Recreation series finale will air Feb. 24, and while it is — understandably — sad to say good-bye to the acclaimed show, Schur knew it was the right time to sign off. “We’re very lucky, because there are very few shows that last as long as we lasted and get to go out on our own terms,” he said. “The sadness was mitigated very strongly by a feeling of accomplishment and a feeling that we had really been able to do things — we did it our way, as Frank Sinatra said.”
Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/kasiagalazka/parks-and-recreation-farewell-season-gadgets
Garry Kasparov accuses NBC Sports of pushing Putin ‘propaganda’
Final one month, chess champ and Human liberties Foundation chair Garry Kasparov described picking Sochi about 2014 Winter Olympics as a “sick laugh.”
Today was the orifice service, and Kasparov’s review proceeded:
http://twitter.com/#!/Kasparov63/status/431878009436798976 http://twitter.com/#!/Kasparov63/status/431878790839828480Kasparov accused NBC Sports of supplying as a mouthpiece for Putin propaganda:
http://twitter.com/#!/Kasparov63/status/431879687514910721A few tweeters disagreed with Kasparov’s critique of NBC Sports:
http://twitter.com/#!/Kasparov63/status/431880344368078848 http://twitter.com/#!/Kasparov63/status/431880716109246465Kasparov besides took a jab in orifice solution dilemmas:
http://twitter.com/#!/Kasparov63/status/431881969891553280***
Assessment all Twitchy’s defense connected with Olympics here.
Get more info: http://twitchy.com/2014/02/07/garry-kasparov-accuses-nbc-sports-of-pushing-putin-propaganda-in-olympics-coverage/