Did ESPN cut jokes from ESPY broadcast?
Don Day July 18th, 2007
Sports blog Deadspin reports ESPN sliced a bunch of material from host Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue at the ESPY awards. The show taped last Thursday, and aired Sunday - standard practice for this event - but it gives the network several days to edit and repackage. Most of the jokes the site says producers cut make fun of athletes — including this:
Michael Vick, as you’ve probably heard, is picking up where Bob Barker left off, to try to help control the pet population.
I think that’s great.
He’s also been doing some wonderful things for people in his local community - just this last weekend, he let the police have a treasure hunt in his backyard.
3 Comments Add your own
1. Steve | July 19th, 2007 at 7:11 am
Yep. Can’t poke fun at athletes. We have to maintain the illusion that they’re gods to be worshipped.
2. Jim | July 22nd, 2007 at 9:42 am
I suppose the Vick Joke was cut as it made fun of killing animals more than the fact it made fun of Vick.That was my first reaction.
3. Marie | September 15th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Maybe they were cut ’cause they just weren’t that funny.
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