KDOC is a TV station based in Orange County, California, which gained brief notoriety in the '80s when it aired the far-right ravings of Rebecca DeMornay's deranged, blond-bewigged father Wally George. Nowadays it mostly shows re-runs, but this past week, the station tried to get ambitious with a live New Year's Eve show coproduced by Jamie Kennedy and Eli Samaha.
Hiring the producer of Battlefield Earth may have been the first bad idea. The first of MANY; I guess Mr. Samaha can now at least claim that BE and Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever are not the biggest disasters he's been involved with. Seriously, it is unbelievable that anyone professional was involved with this on any level. (Okay, if it were on premium cable and Tim and Eric had scripted it as a parody, I might buy that.) From drunken fans lip-syncing off the teleprompter behind the host to awkward and unexpected cuts to commercials, the wrong cameras going live, Macy Gray being totally out of it and f-bombs dropped repeatedly on-air, this thing is a true masterpiece of fail.
Just watch. It makes Tommy Wiseau look like Alfred Hitchcock by comparison, and words don't do it justice.
Via Patton Oswalt, who also says the entire broadcast is likely to hit YouTube this weeked.
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Copies are popping up all over now.
I need to find the complete show. They're saying it's KDOC's first and last New Year's special, but I disagree. If they did this again next year it would have epic ratings.
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@Landstander agreed. I would watch the crap out of something like this just for the sheer "ohgawd, wtf are they going to screw up now? This is so exciting!" factor. :D
@Nicnac Never fear, the video is still available on LiveLeak: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=14b_1357244001
Someone start downloading backups just in case, though.
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maybe this is just what new years is actually like when your sober and completely lucid
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Wow. I mean, up until this point I've only used a fireworks train crashing into a glitter train wreck to describe Jem and The Holograms, but even then I meant it in a "so insane it's awesome" way. This...This is almost just sad in how much a failure it is.
Mind you, that won't stop me from laughing at it constantly. =P You kind of have to wonder how much weed & booze Macy Gray needs to get through playing that song over & over at county fairs & whatnot, but I think she overdid it here.
Even more impressive is that despite everything that's happened here, this still only barely cracks the Top 5 of Jamie Kennedy's biggest f***-ups. http://youtu.be/21-VEj-88gI
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@SlyDante777 If I thought that was an Andy Kaufman-esque put-on, I'd be applauding its brilliance. Sadly, best evidence suggests otherwise.
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Working for a small city TV channel and the School TV channel (sometimes at the same time) after seeing that this popped into my head.
http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac155/skater_boy_10/epic_truck_fail.gif
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@arivalscientist @Someguy I'd never show someone dying.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/awning.asp
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This is what you made me do
http://media.tumblr.com/860278f48f691a05e16e8683349c0a14/tumblr_inline_mg156zxqyc1qb0bkc.gif
@vangald @BeefVonBeef Depends what you order there. The "hand-breaded" chicken tenders are rather nightmarish, but the Memphis BBQ burger is delicious as long as you only order the small.
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Macy Gray everybody..."I try to say goodbye but i choke/try to walk away but i stumble"
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I wish we had something of that in my country's TV. Would've been so wonderful to watch such a trainwreck...
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Even if that had all gone right, it would still have been a godawful obnoxious mess. Jesus, people. 'I'm getting rid of all my haters.' Urgh.
Is that playboy model REALLY going (or at least pretend) to eat that sponsor's hamburger live on air? That's... that's just pathetic. On so many levels.
I would have no idea if Bone Thugs were swearing or not, I couldn't understand a word they were saying. Is that sound problems or if that just what they always sound like?
Oh, also, I despise the term 'f-bomb'. It's fucking stupid.
Um, yeah, I think that's it. Kind of shocked this entire thing went on air. You would have thought SOMEONE in charge would have pulled the plug?
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I think i would prefer if we posted about Kathy Griffin trying to give Anderson Cooper the goods on TV and his absolute disdain for any of it.
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i watched this live. it was a majestic train wreck.
But this is my first New Years living in Los Angeles, so i just assumed it was like that every year.
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