CBS Radio Show Hosts Suspended After Prank Call

[RamboLiberal]

Source: NY Times

CBS Radio suspended two hosts from an FM station in New York City today after an Asian-American advocacy organization complained about the broadcast of a six-minute prank phone call to a Chinese restaurant that was peppered with ethnic and sexual slurs.

The call was first played on “The Dog House With JV and Elvis,” a midmorning show on WFNY, on April 5, the day after Don Imus made his comment about the Rutgers women’s basketball team on WFAN, another CBS-owned station. The call was then replayed on “The Dog House” on Thursday, a week after Mr. Imus was fired by CBS Radio.

In the skit, a series of apparently unsuspecting employees of a Chinese restaurant are berated by a caller who tells one woman he would like to “come to your restaurant” to see her naked, especially a part of her body he refers to as “hot, Asian, spicy.” The caller also attempts to order “flied lice,” brags of his prowess in kung fu and repeatedly curses at several employees.

In a statement on Sunday, the four New York-area chapters of the Organization of Chinese Americans, an advocacy group, demanded an apology from the show’s two hosts and from CBS Radio, and called for the firing of the hosts and their producer.


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Video of call. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cb5_1177378417&p=1

Inexcusable racist crap that isn't even funny. I say fire their butts!

[Tom Joad]

1. Has MSNBC signed him on yet?

[bluestateguy]

2. Do these drive time hosts actually think they are funny?

Are any of them funny?

FM Radio stations are for playing music.

[JerseygirlCT]

15. Makes me crazy

Does anyone really enjoy all that morning "funny" stuff?

Just shut the $#^% up and play some music!

[Scurrilous]

16. They must pump nitrous oxide into the DJ booths..

...during morning drive time. The idiots are so busy laughing and giggling they don't have time to play any music.

[Fenris]

3. "flied lice"?

Jokes from the mid-Twentieth Century! Hilarious!

[Judi Lynn]

11. Cheap, ugly behavior. They are so slow they've never realized how stupid they'd seem

to people in another country, nasty enough to ridicule people for their different-ness. They probably couldn't negotiate much coherent speech in another country, themselves. They are oblivious to the disadvantage the newcomers have to carry with them as outsiders.

It takes a shallow, empty, and genuinely stupid person to mock people over speech patterns, and nationality.

Also haven't heard the old "flied lice" mockery for decades, I'm sure. I think that may have been big in the early part of the 20th Century. It seems like something you'd see in a grade B black and white movie.

[Journeyman]

4. Man, I'd make a terrible bigot. . .

don't understand the humor, can't remember the stereotypes, have difficulties distinguishing differences . . .

[MissMillie]

8. me too

:hi:

[Exiled in America]

10. I don't have any troubles distinguishing differences.....

...but my reaction to them is always "that's fricken awesome!" so I'd have trouble making up mean and humorless jokes about it I guess.

Diversity is the coolest thing about earth. Thank god we are NOT all the same.

[BlueManDude]

5. Remember when the Jerky Boys were the hottest thing around?

Didn't this stuff go out 10 years ago?

[Blue_Tires]

13. lol at that!

I still have a few of their official tapes somewhere

but the bootleg stuff back in the day was SO much better!

[ComerPerro]

6. prank calls are pathetic. period.

[Ian David]

7. Some of the ones on Crank Yankers are funny.

And so are some of the ones I did as a kid.

Well...

They were funny to me at the time.

"Hi, I'm doing a survey from the Florida Citrus Growers Association. When was the last time you enjoyed a cool, refreshing glass of Florida orange juice?"

"Well, I had a glass at breakfast today."

GOD DAMN IT! IT ISN'T JUST FOR BREAKFAST ANYMORE!"

(click)

[Robbien]

9. Ha

Cuteness always works

[ComerPerro]

12. the concept of that one is funny. As a punchline, its effective

but relying on prank calls to drive your TV program or radio show is one of the lowest forms of comedy. Especially when the caller is harassing an employee who, as part of their job description, has to take the caller's shit.

Your example, though, hilariously funny, the idea of it. Its a good punchline

[Ian David]

20. Punchline was courtesy of Jane Curtin in an old SNL Skit.

I just adapted it for use as a prank call.

The best ones are when you do the research in advance, and convince someone that they have to wait in line for hours at the Registry of Motor Vehicles because some stranger paid $20,000 in excise taxes on their vehicle.

[Divine Discontent]

17. was that necessary n/t

[MayorCandidate08]

14. "Flied Lice" WOW how new

Better write that one down...

[MindPilot]

18. It cost money to play music...morning zoo shows are cheap.

They have to pay royalties and stuff with music. Until you're a big name, working in radio is a shit job for low pay. So just like reality shows on TV, radio zoo shows are much more profitable than real entertainment.

[MindPilot]

19. And just to prove that irony isn't quite dead yet...

Check the ads on this thread.

"Hot Asian Singles"

"Find a Chinese wife; sexy Chinese ladies..."

[ends_dont_justify]

21. It's amazing people actually laugh at stuff like that

Some days you think full grown adults were shipped straight from third grade.