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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLawrence O'Donnell claims he's trying to get Joe Pesci on at 10 to read the Mooch Tapes
Hard to tell if he was kidding...he seemed serious. Would be classic if it actually happens. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Just now with Ari Melber on MSNBC.
Sedona
(3,769 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)It was a phone call, so there is a chance that Ryan Lizza taped it, but no one's come forward with it,
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)OnDoutside
(19,969 posts)ci.
bellmartin
(218 posts)You can't possibly read those quotes and not think of Tommy from Goodfellas. It's an easy impression to do, and it had both of us almost rolling on the floor. I recommend it to everyone who needs to see the humor in yet another horrific aspect of these people.
The only problem for Lawrence is that unlike here at home, FCC rules couldn't possibly let Joe Pesci read those unedited on TV. It would be very much like seeing Goodfellas actually edited for TV. It's forced to make so many changes that the results come across as surreal.
So, unless they also cut an unexpurgated version of Joe Pesci reading those quotes, I recommend that you practice your own impression and give it a whirl with the actual quotes. I promise you, it will not make you like Scaramucci or Trump more.
bellmartin
(218 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,846 posts)And actually even a broadcast station might skate on the FCC restrictions, being that the quotes are news.
bellmartin
(218 posts)I can't picture it, though (although I remember in my younger days being absolutely amazed by a network running similar language in the documentary Scared Straight).
panader0
(25,816 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Joe bless you all!
Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)Kahuna7
(2,531 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...which was one of the best bits of the series.
De Niro sizes up Colin Quinn as De Niro: "Who YOU supposed to be?"
Quinn: (nervously): "Colin Quinn, Remote Control?"
It was a big deal at that point because De Niro hadn't yet hosted, and I'm not sure he'd even been on the show at all.
The clip's on Daily Motion, which unfortunately won't embed in this post: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3w087z
grantcart
(53,061 posts)MiddleClass
(888 posts)Lawrence O'Donnell was around Hollywood with the West Wing,
and as a Washington governing consultant, and how it's really done