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NBC President Mocks Writers' Strike In Upcoming Commerical

huffingtonpost.com — Jeff Zucker, President and CEO of NBC Universal, will appear in a commercial to run before the April 3 return of NBC's "My Name is Earl." In the commercial, Zucker appears to mock both the writers and the strike that sidelined Hollywood for months. This guy is clearly a wangface. Make sure you watch until the end.

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  • BuzzDiggity, on 03/28/2008, -49/+22 I think it's completely ridiculous how the studios are still trying to spin the writers' strike in their own favor. Give up already. Please.
    • lukas88, on 03/28/2008, -6/+37It was actually a pretty funny short. You would think writers, of all people, would have a sense of humor.
      • dinostabOMG, on 03/28/2008, -3/+9I'm guessing they do, as I doubt he put it together himself. Still, I just got duped into sitting through a 2 minute commercial for a show I don't watch. Now who's the wangface? It's me!!!
  • bigpicturecolin, on 03/28/2008, -38/+11J-Z out. What a douchenozzle.
    • lukas88, on 03/28/2008, -1/+19Wow, it didn't take long for "douchenozzle" to get old.
  • streetsim, on 03/28/2008, -41/+10What a dick. You know what? If you're just going to parade that you get paid and the writers don't during the first 17 days, say hello to Bittorrent. There, happy now? Now no one gets paid.
    • norman619, on 03/28/2008, -1/+8It's called comedy. It's OK to laugh. Really. It is.
    • LocalDocal, on 03/28/2008, -1/+0I actually found this funnier than the "JZ's" short.
  • SlamShut, on 03/28/2008, -12/+177Let's see... 1... 2... 3... 4. I can count four people so far who don't recognize a joke when they see one.

    Lighten up, jackasses.
    • sterntastic223, on 03/28/2008, -32/+8it's not a question of recognizing a joke... dude is a douche, jokes or not
      • vault, on 03/28/2008, -7/+3why?
      • EvilDr.X, on 03/28/2008, -2/+4Some things you just don't joke about, man. Not this soon. Our country was nearly torn apart, and the wounds will take a long time to heal.
    • hokeywebb22, on 03/28/2008, -2/+21Thank you SlamShut. I was losing faith in Digg.
    • aldenhg, on 03/28/2008, -3/+30Exactly. Who do you think wrote his lines?
    • akeiths, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4Slamshut, thank you.
      Let me, a nobody in your digg community, explain why I don't come here as often as I do, say, any other site on the web.
      It's because frustrated, under stimulated ***** tards come on here and spit off comments that are so far off base, all I want to do is find them someone to have sex with.
      LIGHTEN THE ***** UP.
      • EvilDr.X, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1I'm pretty laid back, but still... if you'd like to find me someone to have sex with, that'd be cool.
    • userperson, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Apparently it's not all that funny.
    • DMDekoth, on 03/28/2008, -3/+2His jokes were worse than dead baby jokes on the microwaved baby story. It's just not right.
      • voyvf, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3Fried chicken?

        It's never too early for a dead baby joke.
    • NoCt1, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1I loved the commercial.. thought it was pretty funny. also love the name slamslut... speaking of which.. the four above should slam some sluts..
    • mwmartin, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1Ha! Buttstain on humanity! (scan the comments on the target)
  • thlani51, on 03/28/2008, -27/+5It's a joke, but it's like Bush making jokes about looking for WMD's in the White House garden. Too soon, and delivered by the wrong guy.
    • HotBaconSauce, on 03/28/2008, -1/+12You have a skewed view of reality my friend.
    • LloydBentsen, on 03/28/2008, -0/+10It's really nothing like that.
      • norman619, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2His comment was making sense but in a non-sense sort of way.
        • Kurlumbenus, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2To thlani No TV = thousands of war dead
        • Tenlow, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Yeah, but it still made no sense when you took into account he wasn't trying to make any sense in a nonsensical sort of way.
    • thlani51, on 03/31/2008, -0/+0Apologies to anyone offended. I didn't mean to equate the two situations, just the insensitivity of those involved. And even those aren't nearly equal. Just a bad analogy all around.
  • vault, on 03/28/2008, -4/+110The video wasn't offensive in any way and he hardly mocked it to begin with. Wasn't really that funny but there's absolutely nothing wrong with this.

    Stop being so hypersensitive.

    • Falldog, on 03/28/2008, -1/+8But the sky is falling!
      • jdmccarthy, on 03/28/2008, -3/+0Hard to poke fun at struggling families
      • daborg, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Someone is wrong on the Internet!
    • fluxion, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4seriously..."due to the recent writer's strike you may have forgotten what happeneed on my name is earl"

      wtf? how is that not a plain as day fact? how else was he supposed to phrase that?
    • minorthreat, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1"Stop being so hypersensitive."

      I know right.. Are the upset people the same ones getting beat up in mexico? http://digg.com/arts_culture/Anti_Emo_Riots_Break_ ...
    • eadnams, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2Concur, I work in the industry, not offended.
  • thebuggalo, on 03/28/2008, -5/+74wow, lighten up. i'm pretty sure writers probably wrote that for him. so.... chillax.
    • SillyRabbits, on 03/28/2008, -2/+6"i'm pretty sure writers probably wrote that for him."

      Well, it wasn't really that funny, and got old pretty quick, so, yeah, you're proabably correct - they probably did write it for him...
    • elhaf, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1I'm sure it would have been funny too, with the proper delivery.
  • ericeman, on 03/28/2008, -9/+2I mean, I understand it's may very well be a lighthearted piece poking fun at the writers strike in general, but everyone seemed to be over the whole thing so why bring it up again? I'd assume it would be better for the networks to just kind of look toward a better future and diffuse all that negative energy that centered around the strike. Even if it was written by a writer or meant as a playful jab, just look at the reactions on that blog and on Digg... people are already taking this in a bad light.
  • logicalnoise, on 03/28/2008, -15/+5NBC! remember seinfeld? that was good. Right? RIGHT!?

    PS. Yes the office is also terrific but seriously Zucker should STFU.
  • logicalnoise, on 03/28/2008, -1/+30why is john stewart attached to this? I know he was very vocal for the writers but uh yeah.
  • LiquidIse, on 03/28/2008, -4/+51Apparently people are missing the fact that, i dunno, the writers are the ones who wrote this script
  • Intrexed, on 03/28/2008, -2/+37You guys are retarded. You're saying it's too early? Nobody got raped, nobody got murdered, it was a strike... It's not that big of a deal. He's joking. In all probability he's not even competent enough to write that himself. I'm sure writers were your "conspirators" behind this.
  • kinseyincanada, on 03/28/2008, -4/+11i wonder who wrote that for him......hmmmmm its called a joke people lighten up
  • silentboom, on 03/28/2008, -3/+3We need new networks or other mediums, these are all owned by like 5 people.
  • drafhk, on 03/28/2008, -21/+18***** the WGA. They're good for nothing and caused the problem to begin with.
  • frogman54, on 03/28/2008, -1/+29I think someone's wangface detector is broken. This is an intro to "My Name is Earl" that was written by the writers of "My Name is Earl." The humor was that he was pretending to mock the writer's strike. He was voluntarily making himself look like a wangface for the sake of comedy...which by the "double pretend wangface" rule of comedy...actually makes him not a wangface. Geez. Lighten up.
  • emgeller, on 03/28/2008, -1/+27From Nikke Finke's blog, deadlinehollywooddaily.com: NBC just confirmed to me that Zucker taped the intro "at the request of Earl's creator, Greg Garcia". And in response to my query, Garcia emails: "It was my idea. We had to do a recap of the show because we'd been off for so long, and I thought this would be a funny way to do it. The writers wrote the whole thing, I asked Jeff if he would do it, and he was cool enough to say yes. I loved the way it turned out, and I think it's ***** hilarious."
  • decepticrat, on 03/28/2008, -10/+5I think some of you guys are missing the whole point. Even if the "My Name is Earl" writers wrote this commercial, Zucker still comes off like a bit of a tool. He is a manipulative Hollywood executive and the only thing on his mind his how to make more money and make himself look as good as possible. In the end, in my opinion, he fails. But hey, that's just my opinion. The humor in the commercial is not about laughing with him, but at him. "JZ Out." Come on, that's ridiculous.
  • suzywang3000, on 03/28/2008, -2/+8what exactly is a "wangface"?
    • khail250, on 03/28/2008, -1/+6someone that has a first name of suzy
    • kajoob, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3It's this thing that I do to your mom.
      • suzywang3000, on 03/30/2008, -1/+1my mom dead. Chinese gov't kill her 1989
  • lukas88, on 03/28/2008, -5/+13Let's not let the writers off the hook too easy either.

    The networks were wrong to cheat them out of online royalties, but that doesn't make it right to hold a whole industry ransom, they clearly weren't starving. Because of their choice to strike, everyone who worked in entertainment, even those who make less than 80 grand a year (caterers, camera crews, make-up, pretty much half of hollywood) had their families go hungry for several months so that the average writer could drive a jaguar instead of a BMW.
    • caramba420, on 03/28/2008, -2/+1The execs don't seem to have any problem giving themselves multimillion dollar salaries. Striking is the reason 8 hour workdays and 5 day workweeks exist for anyone in the first place. A strike the only real way to tell the movers and shakers, "***** you, I'm not gonna let you rip me off anymore."
  • Brian48216, on 03/28/2008, -3/+4man....considering how terrible that dialogue was....I think the joke was really on him.
    The writers made him dumber sounding then he already is.
  • OJdidntdoIT, on 03/28/2008, -4/+10Honestly, don't give a *****. As long as its over, y'all seriously ***** up my winter bitches.
    • Hangly, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1I spent my winter doing things other than watching TV.
  • zaii7, on 03/28/2008, -3/+7great to see an executive with a sense of humor
  • rawnzilla, on 03/28/2008, -8/+3BAWWWWW I want 4 more cents!!! BAWWWWW
  • SemiSarcastic, on 03/28/2008, -3/+1I'm suppose to care about this now? *sigh* okay, okay I'll go along with it.
  • Chordinator, on 03/28/2008, -2/+3I'll tell you what's a joke, thinking that was funny... now that's a joke.
  • LoadStar, on 03/28/2008, -2/+1Never mind... someone posted the comment before me. See emgeller's comment above.
  • Daamien, on 03/28/2008, -2/+3If they were looking to make good comedy, they should have had Zucker hit by a car instead.
  • 0260, on 03/28/2008, -3/+2it was satire. ha-ha. he is not mocking anyone. buried
  • Kelmanza, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1wow. that whole strike made me sympathize with the writers, and this brought me back to reality. this guy has a legitimate point; all of the crap on his network has horrible writing, and they should be taking a pay-cut. the people who design the advertising, the concept, and the aesthetic qualities are the ones bringing in viewers, and the writers just aren't funny like they used to be
  • Gogf, on 03/28/2008, -2/+0Guess who probably wrote the script for that commercial: the very writers who are apparently being "mocked." Lighten up guys... it's just satire.
  • dmbsoc8, on 03/28/2008, -2/+3SORTA funny... Definitely wasn't malicious towards the writers though in my opinion.
  • caramba420, on 03/28/2008, -3/+0Writers, Schmiters. Joke, Schmoke. Nothing will change the fact that all TV network executives are world-class douchebags.
  • solid12345, on 03/28/2008, -2/+4Anyone ever looked at the salaries for all these television writers? They are in the six figures range. Not getting paid enough my ass, how many camera guys, lighting crew, and other lower paid workers suffered due to the writer's douchebaggery?

    And what do we get for their half a million a year salaries? Endless spinoffs of CSI, yeah thanks guys.
  • wynja, on 03/28/2008, -2/+2Sweet, I love it, so the writers write in a piece to make the douche CEO look like a complete fool. Score one for the writers. The CEOs handlers should not have agreed to letting this air. It should make for much funnies in the news media when they want to distract us from another dozen Fortune 500 companies collapse.
  • kriminalintent, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2J.Z. out!
  • Xproject01, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3bring back Heroes!!!
  • 8bit_Hero, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3um i think most missed the joke. i don't think it was a reference to the writers strike, it was just a joke about them passing off the same work twice. i think the only bitterness lies in the imaginations of the viewers.
  • IronDonut, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1I think he was just being funny and whomever submitted this story didn't get the humor. It seemed very good natured to me.
  • chrisgnv, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1Writers... who write comedy shows.... can't take jokes? In addition, who do you think wrote what Zucker read? Silly thing to get upset about here.
  • JazzCatDRP, on 03/28/2008, -2/+2Go ahead and bury me, but I thought it was hilarious.
  • narcofiche, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2I feel like I've been tricked into seeing a bunch of commercials within a commercial. Damn you, capitalism.
  • NonLeftistDiggr, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1Right, I just can't wait until the inevitable next time in the future when the writer's again decide that they don't like the 2008 contract they signed and will not honor it either.
  • rsylvest20, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1I guess someone obviously doesnt understand punctuation because its "NBC President Mocks Writers, Strike..." not "NBC President Mocks Writers Strike" meaning he made jokes about both sides. And the writers joke wasnt even related to the strike. People are idiots.

    I guess you need to go back to 4th grade english class before exploding at articles and calling people "wangfaces"
  • kizzbizz, on 03/28/2008, -3/+2But wait, didn't a writer have to write that for him too? So isn't it actually the writers mocking their own strike? I think he just created some wangface strangelets, prepare for ice9
  • demonbaby, on 03/28/2008, -1/+7Jeff Zucker is an insane copyright cheerleader who spouts old media hyperbole like "Apple destroyed the music business" and wants to charge you ludicrous amounts of money for DRM-protected TV downloads, immediately delete every SNL clip that anyone ever posts on YouTube, and sue the pants off of everyone who's ever even thought about downloading "The Office" via bitTorrent. So, whether this video is in good humor or not, Jeff Zucker is still very much a wangface.
  • simonbp, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Wow, that was really awkward.
  • AwesomePossum, on 03/28/2008, -3/+3Now I have a face to go with my hatred for NBC.
  • easy4lif, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2Here's a clue to who won the writers strike

    the studio's
  • minox, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2Apparently people who are reflexively anti-corporation don't recognize satire or irony.
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