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1500quidporsche posted:It could just be that I started in the "Anthony is going on his racist rant again" but I actually enjoy Opie's stuff and find his attempts to annoy the audience/ant/jimmy by taking calls from Lady Di or bringing in Dennis Falcone pretty funny. Could you elaborate on what you find annoying about Opie? Some of the other posters have summed it up, but I don't see Opie as the funny guy. But that's not really his role, he's more of the director/producer type for the program, and he's pretty good at that. For me, his attempts at jokes feel too much like the work of an unfunny frat boy who is trying too hard. Often his personality just comes across as someone trying to be an early 1990s "cool guy". Plus whenever he does get a good line, he drives it into the ground, both on the show and usually Twitter afterwards. That being said, when he does bring in a Bobo/Lady Di phone call to everyone's chagrin, I do end up enjoying that. I might find him annoying pretty often, but I don't think I would ever say the show would be better without him.
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Op's just not a funny dude. He has funny ideas and poo poo, but you're not getting a nice 1 liner from him. And unless he's blowing up an interview angry opie is just a dumbass. Unrelated, here's one thing that does bug me about Jimmy is his nonchalant attitude towards sex abuse victims. Even dumb Bob Kelly could make the point it's tough for them to speak out about what happened especially when the abuser especially when it's someone as beloved as michael jackson was.
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There are plenty of reasons to not like Opie, as has been mentioned, for me it's how thin skinned he is. They're surrounded by comedians that tear into each other all the time, but Opie can't take any criticism at all without blowing up. I'm also just going to let this speak for itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkGs4ss7zvQ
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Aug 7, 2014 04:28
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I think everyone can be pretty thin skinned when the right insecurity is attacked, Opie is just real bad at hiding it. Christ even Colin got hurt over a crack about his chicken legs. The real hero is Jimmy being called an unfinished clone and not killing himself.
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Aug 7, 2014 04:46
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Most people can't handle real things about them being made the center of a joke of a large radio show. Opie is an average dude that is above average at managing a radio show. Imagine a journeyman point guard that was really good at passing and he had Michael Jordan and Lebron James to pass to, that's Opie.
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Opie was also more valuable during the shock jock days. Being an unrepentant rear end in a top hat to people made for good radio. His stunts were unique and he was great anytime they attacked another show. That stuff just isn't interesting anymore and he's not funny enough to hang with professional comics that became a bigger part of the show.1500quidporsche posted:My understanding is that the racism thing really started ramping up in 2008 (take a guess why), and from what I've listened to Opie has either tapped out or tried to steer the conversation in a new direction when Anthony did his Stormfront Power Hour. My feeling is that Opie knows that Opie and Anthony as a brand was worth more than either of them separately, and given how some people rag on him for not being funny he felt roughing it out was the best course. I think it had more to do with them being dropped from CBS. They kept the show relatively "clean" during that time. After that it seemed like they just did whatever they wanted to do because XM and eventually Sirius didn't give a poo poo. Also Jim didn't "call people out" for the same reason Opie didn't. Because it's a morning radio show that is supposed to be funny and serious discussions about gender and race are not all that entertaining. The shows premise was terrible people saying and doing terrible things that turned out to be funny.
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BigPoot posted:Ant's racism was always insinuated more than overt before, but he went full on klan the past few years. Previously it would usually take the form of a quick joke that could have been made completely in jest rather than actual racism. yeah there was tons of funny poo poo when it was just subtle jokes, like the 'black news' bit they did with Patrice which was genuinely loving genius also any time someone is chatting poo poo about Ope I just think of "I could have been a model!"
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Shock jock stuff just doesn't work on Sirius. It requires a constant flow of new people coming in and the ability to get into situations where you can do terrible things. That can't happen when everybody needs a background check to get into the building and they can't leave their broom closet.
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Aug 7, 2014 12:52
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Huh. Well Dan Soder and Big Jay Oakerson got their own show.
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eightysixed posted:Huh. Well Dan Soder and Big Jay Oakerson got their own show. On Sirius?
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eightysixed posted:Huh. Well Dan Soder and Big Jay Oakerson got their own show. Jesus, if it's on Sirius I might resubscribe for that.
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therealjon_ posted:On Sirius? Yeahp. The promo just said the Comedy Central channel.
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eightysixed posted:Huh. Well Dan Soder and Big Jay Oakerson got their own show. Well that's both unexpected and awesome.
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eightysixed posted:Huh. Well Dan Soder and Big Jay Oakerson got their own show. yeah, that's really awesome. Two of my favorite ron and fez guests. Big jay might be my favorite comedian curently
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Aug 7, 2014 14:42
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An Enormous Boner posted:Good. Now bring back Sam and Than
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An Enormous Boner posted:Good. Now bring back Uninformed.
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Why is no one saying: "great, now bring back Ant"?
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spudsbuckley posted:Why is no one saying: "great, now bring back Ant"? I think you know why.
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spudsbuckley posted:Why is no one saying: "great, now bring back Ant"? I'm totally ok w/this.
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Aug 7, 2014 16:23
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Looks like the Soder/Oakerson show is just one hour every Tuesday. Better than nothing, I guess.
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Cromulent posted:Looks like the Soder/Oakerson show is just one hour every Tuesday. Better than nothing, I guess. Why would anybody agree to a weekly show with Sirius? You get no heat from it, no real money and they'll never upgrade you to a daily show.
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Aug 7, 2014 17:59
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spudsbuckley posted:Why is no one saying: "great, now bring back Ant"?  Maybe I was the only one who actually enjoyed that show. Oh well.
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"I don't think the O and A days are over. I think we're just taking a break right now." - Opie today. There must be a lot of talk going on behind the scenes.
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Cromulent posted:Lots of people can't support a racist in any endeavor and it tarnishes their view of them wholesale. I'm personally able to compartmentalize and still find Ant to be hilarious and absolutely vital to the show. O&J is unlistenable, and Ant's new show, especially after only 3 days, is actually pretty good. I still think the instant paywall is a bad move, but at least I have a friend with a sub. O&J show has been great.
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Aug 7, 2014 19:43
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TwistedNails posted:O&J show has been great. Yeaup, it's the first time I've kept up with the show on a daily basis in years
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Aug 7, 2014 20:47
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Stokes posted:"I don't think the O and A days are over. I think we're just taking a break right now." - Opie today. There must be a lot of talk going on behind the scenes. Probably a smart thing to do since Ant is riding the racist train and seems to be actively courting it right now. It's one thing to be loyal, but it's another to flush your career because your co-host flipped out on Twitter to the point of losing his job due to the fear of the anger expressed. How can anybody really try to pull him back into the show when the only attention he's getting is 'look at what a bigot this guy is?' I kinda feel bad for Opie in this regard. He really can't win by doing anything.
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Hahaha, Jay Mohr just blurted out Anthony's hotline number like 5 seconds into the call.
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Stokes posted:Hahaha, Jay Mohr just blurted out Anthony's hotline number like 5 seconds into the call.  He addressed the Political Cesspool thing today but nobody gives a poo poo.
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I'm watching yesterday's show with the news anchor... Ant needs someone running the board so that he's not distracted. It's weird when two people have a conversation staring ahead into the camera. It was fun watching the news anchor try not to say friend of the family.
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TwistedNails posted:O&J show has been great. And I didn't get the "total racist" vibe from the news anchor at all. In fact, despite him being right-wing I actually thought he showed a degree of genuine empathy for the black community when speaking on the inner-city reporting he's done. Of course, talking about young black kids who seem to have PTSD thousand-yard stares played as comedy to Ant.
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Cromulent posted:And I didn't get the "total racist" vibe from the news anchor at all. In fact, despite him being right-wing I actually thought he showed a degree of genuine empathy for the black community when speaking on the inner-city reporting he's done. Of course, talking about young black kids who seem to have PTSD thousand-yard stares played as comedy to Ant. I found some of it kind of interesting even though I disagreed with alot of it. The thing I was referring to specifically was there was a part in the first few minutes of his segment where he's angry and he was like "THESE.........FUCKHEADS" and Ant made a face like "ahhhh I know what you wanted to say there..." But yeah, I agree with you, I'm not comparing him to Ant.
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Aug 7, 2014 22:22
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Anthony and his guest are actively trying to never get on FOX again at this moment.
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4outof5 posted:Anthony and his guest are actively trying to never get on FOX again at this moment. Speaking of Vice, this Uncle Paul sketch from Jimmy's new show is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aYUrqVCodw
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I'm looking forward to hearing Florentine's two-hour show on the channel tonight. His rants are hilarious. I've also been enjoying the hell out of Vos and Bonnie's show the past few Tuesdays. Never bothered to check out their podcast but the show they've been doing on SiriusXM has been awesome.
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spudsbuckley posted:Why is no one saying: "great, now bring back Ant"? I just want the people who are desperately lying to themselves that the show has been really good lately to stop.
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yourafagpleasedie posted:I just want the people who are desperately lying to themselves that the show has been really good lately to stop. He's right. The show hasn't been good for years.
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