RodBlagojevich-related stories
Posted Oct 9th 2009 7:07PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: The Apprentice, Celebrities, Casting
If you thought Rod Blagojevich was done with television after the I'm a Celebrity debacle, then you don't know Rod.
An unidentified source close to team Blago confirmed that the ousted Illinois governor will compete on the upcoming season of
The Celebrity Apprentice.
Of course, NBC wouldn't confirm the info until the network makes an official announcement or maybe it just didn't want to come to terms with the fact that are giving the human spotlight once more chance on TV. I'm sure it's the first one.
Posted May 21st 2009 3:49PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Celebreality
Now that
Saturday Night Live is off the air, what's the fun in former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich doing anything if we can't have it made fun of on "Weekend Update?" The biggest douchebag in the Midwest, and I can say that because I live there, wasn't allowed to join Sanjaya on NBC's summer reality show because of that whole legal matter. So NBC, proving how "FOX-y" they can be, have now signed
Mrs. Rod Blagojevich to join I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here this summer.
Now, I support the decision to not allow Rod there because he'd either be taking hits out on fellow celebrities (wait a minute ... Sanjaya
will be there) or he'd just disappear altogether. But in an era where getting rejected by a bachelor can make you a "Star" worthy of
Dancing, it still boggles my mind that being married to a jackass is enough. We don't know anything about Patti Blagojevich except for her terrible taste in men. Kristen Wiig hasn't even developed an impression of her and now she's going to be on a major summer reality show?
Continue reading NBC says all Blagojevichs are the same, casts one for I'm a Celebrity
Posted Apr 24th 2009 6:07PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebreality
Part of me is pleased that
a federal court judge told the former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to stay put when NBC asked him to join their
latest celebrity grovel-fest.
He's continuing to grab
any media time he can long after the media forgot how to pronounce his last name by promoting the new
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me a New Agent Out of Here. And despite
my convictions to the contrary, another part of me wishes he would get more.
Mind you, this is the very dark part of me that giggles when elderly people fall and wishes there was a semi-pro "Scarin' Babies League."
Continue reading Judge says 'whoa' to Blago's show, but does that stop him? Hell no
Posted Apr 15th 2009 10:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals, Casting
When Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was finally indicted and impeached, I breathed a sigh of relief and hoped that would be
the last we would ever see of him.
Then I heard he might be coming back to haunt my TV like the ghost of an angry relative, and the nerves in my whole body stiffened. Would we once again have to spend all of our remaining TV time dodging the naysaying and the placating and the denying that is the Rod Blagojevich variety hour?
Then when I heard he was going to be on an NBC reality show, I again breathed a sigh of relief, comforted by the fact that no one would see him.
Continue reading Blagojevich joining reality show...and it's not Cops
Posted Feb 5th 2009 8:01AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, News, OpEd, Talk Show, Reality-Free
When then Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich decided to forgo his own impeachment hearing to ride the media train up and down the dial, I figured it would last one or two, maybe three days tops.
Then a few nights ago, Blagojevich and his hair appeared on
The Late Show with David Letterman to clear his name, which is hard to ask people to do when they can't even say it without spraining their tongue.
Blagojevich's appearance on Letterman crossed a line that shouldn't even had to have been drawn for him. And now, he must be stopped.
Continue reading Why Blagojevich needs to stay the hell away from my TV
Posted Jan 26th 2009 2:12PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Talk Show, Reality-Free
Governor Blagojevich is nuts. Blame it on his flimsy grasp of reality or his hard-hat like haircut, the current (for how long, who knows) governor of Illinois is not quite there. How do we know this? Well, rather than appearing at his own impeachment trial he's decided to let the good citizens of the U.S. know that he's being railroaded by his own government via various media outlets.
The other determining factor on his nuttiness...he was considering naming Oprah Winfrey as Barack Obama's replacement to the U.S. Senate. Now, while Oprah is a respectable personality who has done much good for people around the globe, she is in no way qualified to become a U.S. Senator. I know that some of you Oprahites would heartily disagree with this, but even you know, deep down inside, that giving Oprah a Senate seat would not be a good idea.
And, frankly, I think Oprah would agree with you.
Continue reading The chair recognizes Senator Winfrey of Illinois
Posted Dec 11th 2008 8:38AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Reality-Free
Everyone who has been laughing at the idea of
Fran Drescher taking over Hillary Clinton's Senate seat for the state of New York, you can stop laughing now. It's not that wild an idea, not when you consider that Fred Grandy -- Gopher from
The Love Boat -- was a Congressman from Iowa, and pro wrestler Jesse Ventura was the Governor of Minnesota, and there's a really good chance that
Saturday Night Live alum Al Franken (remember Stuart Smalley?) has won the Senate seat for Minnesota, too. (They're still recounting the votes!)
Oh, and let's not forget the Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger from the great state of California. In other words, why not Senator
Fran Drescher!
Continue reading The NY senator, a nanny named Fran? - VIDEO
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