Marriage Ref spin-offs in the works, Seinfeld and NBC confirm
March 11, 2010
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NEW YORK (FASTLAUGH.com) — Grateful NBC executives profusely thanked producer-comedian Jerry Seinfeld today for coming to the Peacock Network’s rescue, with the Seinfeld-produced The Marriage Ref placing a comedy tourniquet on their self-inflicted hemorrhage in the Thursday 10 PM time slot.
The Marriage Ref [...]
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Posted 11 March 2010
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NBC’s incessant promos for TV show Parenthood during coverage of Winter Olympics spur condom distribution record
March 2, 2010
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VANCOUVER, B.C. (FASTLAUGH.com) — The 2010 Vancouver Olympics have “captured the gold medal for most condoms distributed at a Winter Games,” it was claimed today by an official of Vancouver Coastal Health, who noted that this massive [...]
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Posted 02 March 2010
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Y2K redux, Sony’s PlayStation 3 units crippled by 8001050F error likely due to calendar rollover screw up
March 1, 2010
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FOSTER CITY, Calif. (FASTLAUGH.com) — Demonstrating a cautionary tale of the extraordinary power being ceded by humanity to advanced technology, and being wielded by seemingly innocuous calendar bugs to thoroughly disrupt daily life in our technology-dependant [...]
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Posted 01 March 2010
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Leno wangles chance to bomb in former slot
January 22, 2010
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BURBANK, Calif. (FASTLAUGH.com) — Affiliates 1, NBC 0, Conan $45,000,000.
Shortly after reaching a forty-five million dollar exit deal with Conan O’Brien, and yielding to a withering firestorm from burned affiliates earlier this month, panicked NBC executives yesterday revealed their latest scheme to restore wangling late-night [...]
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Posted 22 January 2010
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MTV scraps plans for South Padre
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January 1, 2010
NEW YORK (FASTLAUGH.com) – MTV abruptly announced yesterday that it had scrapped plans for the new reality show, South Padre, modeled after its hit series Jurzee Shore, due to a new Texas law placing heavy restrictions on teen tanning that goes into effect today.
South Padre had been [...]
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Posted 01 January 2010
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Jurzee Shore, “A Very Tanned New Year’s Eve”
[SPOILER ALERT] – Jurzee Shore, Season 2: Back at the Beach, Episode 2.3, “A Very Tanned New Year’s Eve” – Air Date 12.31.09 – The gang’s New Year’s Eve plans are short-circuited when a breakaway mylar balloon gets tangled in a nearby electric pole, knocking out all power [...]
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Posted 16 December 2009
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Miracle on the Jurzee Shore
December 14, 2009
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(FASTLAUGH.com) Reminder to self… must remember to program TiVo to record the heartwarming, upcoming Christmas episode of MTV’s Jurzee Shore, “Miracle on the Jurzee Shore,” as two of the wannabe Guidos, Ronnie and Mike, run out of gel on Christmas Eve and learn to appreciate the true meaning [...]
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Posted 14 December 2009
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