Why are there no drunk tv shows?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Nostromo
Whitney Houston meets a very drunk Serge Gainsbourg on French tv

nice. poor whitney. She's like how in the hell did my publicist get me in this situation. He's just saying what we all wanted to do. It's funny when women act all surprised that we want to **** them. They prefer we keep those thoughts to ourselves.

[LordShiva]

Re: Why are there no drunk tv shows?

Because TV shows are not living beings that can drink, and, as such, can never be drunk.

[kittenOFchaos]

Thought Police, Camera, Action featured drunken hicks and their highway antics every 4pm - 5pm on Bravo.

[VetLegion]

Re: Why are there no drunk tv shows?

Originally posted by Dis
Besides the logistical challenges of having a drunk host. But why not have a talk show where the host and guests drink? Imagine how much better the boring interviews with softball questions would be?

But why does no one drink on tv? I remember some big stir when some celebrity did a late night show drunk, but what's so wrong with drinking on tv? Is that illegal? It might be in the U.S. to drink alcohol on air. But why would this be illegal? What's the basis for that?

Here in Croatia we have just such show. It's called Nightmare Stage and runs on a local TV, but perhaps is also syndicated nationwide. It gained notoriety by having a host who is often drunk, but even more by having a permanent crew of retards who perform various siliness in front of the camera. When I say retards, I'm literally talking about people who are retarded, as in medical condition. The host has them fight each other, talk nonsense, and "seduce" prostitutes. How the show isn't illegal is beyond me.

[LordShiva]

Re: Re: Why are there no drunk tv shows?

Originally posted by VetLegion
When I say retards, I'm literally talking about people who are retarded, as in medical condition. The host has them fight each other, talk nonsense, and "seduce" prostitutes.

[Pekka]

Dis, The really funny part is that she's a crack head now and like a walking dead zombie. No need to get surprised by little drunk people anymore.

Oh and that Croatian show? Sounds awesome I'd watch that for sure.

[Dis]

it's safe to say this rude french guy drove her to drugs. Or perhaps drove her to bobby brown.

[Spec]

I'd host that show.

It'be a show about how to pick up chicks when drunk, without it showing. Because drunk guys for most ladies is a turn off. But most guys need to drink to be comfortable aboarding the ladies.

It'be an immediate success.

Like a drunk reality show, with some half-dressed chick keeping score of how many times I scored and how many times I got turned down.

Goal of the show would be to break even.

Spec.

[Pekka]

Spec, it woudl be cool, because the more obnoxious you'd be, the funnier everyone would think you are. Plus, all the girls coming to your show would be in the situation, expecting you to make moves on them and grab their titties, so it's perfectly fine. Awesome.

[Pekka]

That makes me think. Maybe we should make a new show called "drunk boob grabber". It would be about the host who gets drunk and grabs boobs. That's it. Nothing else. Ratings=$$$.

[DaShi]

I swear Leno gets most of his guests drunk.

[Zkribbler]

But why does no one drink on tv? I remember some big stir when some celebrity did a late night show drunk, but what's so wrong with drinking on tv? Is that illegal? It might be in the U.S. to drink alcohol on air. But why would this be illegal? What's the basis for that?

I believe that non-drinking is the last vestige of the Hayes Code, the "voluntary" code of conduct for movies and broadcast mediums. Notice in beer commercials, no one ever takes a sip. People do "drink" in movies, but that's just ice tea or cola, not the real stuff.

[Dis]

yeah that's why I thought there might be a law against it. And of course in tv shows like Cheers they don't drink real beer (be kind of hard for the actors to act that way of course ). I always wondered how Norm could drink all day and not get drunk.

[Dis]

the subject interests me how there are not certain things on tv. Sex of course is obvious. We know it's evil, and we can't have the population reproducing. but no one even uses the bathroom. Except Al Bundy. We know know with he flushes his toilet

So I do a little google search. I'm having trouble putting in the right search terms though.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169987,00.html

Anyone know what came of the above story? Never heard anything more from that. Probably never went through.

I think I heard about this next story. Devito was probably drunk on the View

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,1564251,00.html

Then I found this. Looks like some public access show. Not very good. Maybe drinking isn't a good thing

[Aeson]

This is about as close as it gets: