How long until the FCC penalizes the Emmys?

Posted by Steve Safran on August 28, 2006

In her acceptance speech, Dame Helen Mirren, who won a “Best Actress” award at the Emmys, said she was glad she didn’t fall “ass over tit” on her way up to the podium. That’s an FCC twofer! Compounding the swear, Calista Flockhart repeated it and so did Craig Ferguson. Six swears times $325,000 = $1.95 million in fines, should one person complain to the FCC. Won’t someone please think of the children?

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flockhart: so skinny she has neither.
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Ed

Well, I took the time to complain. My first draft was rather good, but then I realized that they’ll probably dismiss it as a prank, so I cleaned it up.

Still, it was hard to delete the lines “won’t someone think of the children.

Please, everybody, enter a complaint. This is the best way to highlight how goddamn stupid these laws are.
Don

Are “ass” and “tit” actually outlawed?
http://rimehascometoday.blogspot.com Tim

Come on! An awards ceremony celebrating the achievements of the industry that invented T&A, and which also included the three Charlie’s Angels that commoditized it, and they’re going to fine them just for saying it?
http://involuntaryslacker.blogspot.com Alyssa

Is ‘tit’ some sort of swear word?

I mean, she didn’t show her tits on live TV…..

And she’s British! If they can’t get away with saying slightly naughty things, who can?
http://involuntaryslacker.blogspot.com Alyssa

Wait, I heard that there might have been some actual nipple visable on live TV

http://www.egotastic.com/entertainment/celebrities/emmy-awards-nipple-slip-video-featuring-mindy-kaling-of-the-office-001602
KC

On these live events, you indeed take your pocketbook in you rhands if you don’t use delay. Again, public airwares. If you want tits and ass all the time, move the show to HBO.
Safran

Yes: “Tits” is one of the famous “Seven Dirty Words” made famous by George Carlin.

There was also a wardrobe malfunction nipple slip not many people caught. However, the folks at Best Week Ever did. I’m not saying you should go to their blog or anything…
thedetroitchannel

so would one of the little fellows qualify as a “dirty word” all by its lonesome, or would it have to be mentioned as a set???
Lucretia Higgins

An appropriate comment for a show that honored, among others, Aaron Spelling – father (or at least enabler) of T&A.
Jim

Graphic violence can be found across the broadcast spectrum almost nightly, but the boobs at the FCC are increasingly concerned with only words — most of which are innocuous!

If they have the audacity to fine for an “ass over tit” comment, we’re really in a scary and “ass-backwards” predicament!! It would be somewhat like stepping over a dollar to pick up a dime.
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Katie P.

This is such BLEEPING B.S.!

Some people have to much time on their hands.
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