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Reply: Ann Curry is the one I have the most respect for. Remember, it was alleged Matt Lauer played a huge part in her leaving NBC News. Which he continued get away with long after that resignation and up into the "Me Too Movement."
Notice they said his old was making it difficult for him to work with others. That's part of his job. They couldn't accommodate him and since working with others is part of the job, he in fact can be let go without legal recourse. Chances are, he didn't fight it but he's doing great now.
@@Jeremiah_Rivers76 Not that I am starved for validation,* but did you mean compfunk's comment or mine made you smile? *actually, I am starved for validation, but that's not why I ask.
That's truly ridiculous what happened to Marc Summers. The guy was going public with a personal issue and bringing light and much needed help for others in the same situation. It was so much fun to watch him on Nickelodeon...he's a great TV host.
Donahue has earned my deepest respect in recent years. I used to think his show was the start of sensationalist tabloid entertainment. But I now realise he was one of the more discerning clever hosts in that era.
@@cometstyles3772 So you wish Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden were still alive? You're the type who probably thought the US shouldn't have bombed Japan in retaliation for Pearl Harbour.
His show was the greatest. No gimmicks and he had on the guests that were strange to us years before anyone. He had Midwest truckers who were trans long before anyone even had these kinds of things and he always treated everyone with respect.
I loved him at first but even though I was somewhat liberal when I was younger, Watching O'Donough reminded me to think. Do I agree? Do I disagree?(go do my own pre-internet looking.
America want everyone to be patriotic and say nothing. They also seem to think if you criticize the reason to go to war which the top people decide then you must hate the men and women who serve in the war. Well unless it comes out they are gay or trans then you have to hate them. Both are absurd.
Dan Rather also got fired for exposing how GWB got out of going to Vietnam. He didn't do anything wrong, he didn't make up anything, he didn't embellish-- he just happen to piss off the GOP.
In the end, I suppose, he was right. All the reasons put forth after 9/11 for invading Iraq have been shown to be a bunch of malarky. It was just an excuse for 'W' to finish what his dad didn't. And then we were mired in Iraq for so many years afterward.
Can someone tell me why going to an adult movie theater is such a big deal? Just because you're a news anchor doesn't mean you can not have a private life?
I've never been to an adult movie theater, but remember when there were many in Hollywood. Back in the 1980s I was called for jury duty at the Hollywood Municipal Courthouse. I ended up as a juror on a case involving a man caught "pleasuring himself" while watching the film. Apparently the police routinely walked through the theaters to catch guys. It was all pretty sleazy, and I can understand why an employer wouldn't want to be connected with it.
@@robindreier9796 it was considered a sleazy place to be,like a real dive bar or massage parlor.back when people cared about having a good reputation.. "a stand up kind of guy".they were fun tho....yeah I'm old,thanks for reading.
My cousin and his wife used to be married to 2 other people who cheated on them, once upon a time ago in the 1950s. The cheaters didn't stay together, but my cousin & wife were married forever & raised 4 kids together. Nice people.
A 'felon' because of a weaponized DOJ. A complete abuse of power. The real felons are currently in office destroying a once great nation. They're counting on the ignorance of people like you who watch MSM lies and believe them. Trump 2024 to save this now 3rd world nation.
@@unker29 I don't believe he is. Political bs. Ever since he said he was going to clean the swamp, s--t has been happening. I'm going to vote for him. It's better than the garbage that's happening now.
Hearing about how he was treated by employers for having OCD sadly echoes how a lot of people with disabilities are mistreated in the workplace and even punished if they speak out. It's one reason I didn't used to disclose having a chronic illness to past employers.
I agree no one would choose to have OCD and my life would be easier without it,but people with any type of mental illness or disability is treated badly by employers.
I don't know who had the funnier 'oops I got caught for lying about a war zone story' between Brian Williams or Hillary Clinton. She claimed to have been shot at while landing some where during her time as Sec of State and that too was proven a lie.
I'm surprised that Chris Cuomo wasnt on this list. I was surprised when I found he helped his brother (the governor of New York) cover up some suspicious behavior.
@@faykguru I don't really know. I only heard about it after the fact. It was featured on another list. I actually liked Chris. When covid was just starting, I would watch CNN 24/7, since I had nothing better to do.
I get being annoyed, but I'm going to be blunt and say that the level of bitterness in this comment is just SAD. If you don't like the vids, don't watch them. Watchmojo caters to more than one audience, watch the ones that you like instead.
Olbermann recently stated (on his podcast) that Donahue was fired for the ulterior motive of monetary reasons: unlike everyone else on MSNBC, his crew were unionized.
I've always perceived Keith Olbermann to be more extremely outspoken than Donahue. Phil Donahue was a nice guy who interviewed controversial guests and encouraged us to think about current issues. That's something they both have in common, except I thought that Donahue didn't seem as angry as Keith sometimes does.
@@missyann7588 yes. She said she was terrified of her step-father. One officer committed suicide-lost all pension just to defend himself. Google and you'll see what Rev Sharpton looked like in 1989 or 90, Wattinger Falls, NY
@@lookingup82 Sharptob was HUGE! They never questioned what she was saying. Everyone should question everything…especially when comes to our government. Which cops are a part of. I don’t pretend to be a fan of cops…but NO ONE should be falsely accused of anything…especially something as heinous as what she was saying. And nothing happened to none of them. This was the original “Jussie smollett”
Mr. Imus called them nappy heads. In Stevie Wonders song I Wish, the first line is 'Looking back on when I was a little nappy-headed boy.' Some, maybe most, consider it to be derogatory when it's more like a description. The connotation and inference is negatively perceived and Mr. Imus paid the price.
@@tomcusack884Stevie Wonder is Black!! And that's NOT what he said he called them NAPPY HEADED HOES!!!! 🙄🤡 If you're going to tell a story tell the WHOLE story!! 🤡
I remember Fred Willard on Fernwood Tonight. That was back in the late 70s and early 80s. We laughed until our sides hurt! Fred was also in the original Salem's Lot. Great movie!
omg i cannot with the irony of chris matthews sitting next to the slogan of elizabeth warren discussing a man fired for sexual misconduct against women only for liz herself to later call out his OWN similar misconduct (during an interview in which he defended bloomberg's misconduct) resulting in matthews being fired 😂😂😂
Morton Downey JR raised suspicions about the skinhead attack when the swastika on his face appeared to be a mirror image, like what you might see if used a mirror to paint words or symbols on your face.
If you look at graffiti swastikas drawn all over the place, they're drawn both ways. People don't know which way they're supposed to be drawn. Having it "mirrored" on his face doesn't mean anything.
@@SeptemberChild1835 Keep telling yourself that people know a lot about Nazis. I have no idea which way the swastika goes and thus would have a 50% chance of getting it right. It could just as easily turn into a Buddhist symbol. BTW, I know that Downey is an actor but I don't think I've seen him in anything.
Anyone remember Joe Pyne? He was a very popular confrontational TV host in the Los Angeles area during the 1960s. His downfall was telling his television audience that the only reason he felt safe, was caring his own gun, which he displayed on live TV. That turned out to be a big no-no at that time on television.
And Denis Vladimirovich Molla. But we're not allowed to talk about that. For obvious reasons🤣 Just Juicy and Hasan Minhaj starring in "Brown Man Makes Up Racism Cuz That Makes America Feel Good" stories lulz
Ian Hislop said many years later that when then host becomes the joke of the show it distracts from the purpose of the show and whilst they tried to overcome it, it just couldn't continue with Deayton in the host chair. They thought the joke would last a week, Deayton took the piss out of himself, Ian brought a copy of the newspaper and then Paul Merton wore the newspaper on his tshirt, they thought that would be the end of it. But then when Deayton took the piss out of the guests and they turned around and said yeah but what about you.... it defeats the purpose of the show.
Trump wasn't elected for making that comment. The other option was simply that bad. The comment was made 11 years before the election. He was a known billionaire playboy when he said it, and it's completely true. Gold digging women would let a billionaire and famous person touch them wherever he wanted if they could get something out of it and you know it.
He didn't get elected because of what he said on the bus. Do you have a problem with Biden when he said "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black"?
Most of the people on this list deserved to be canceled. One exception was Phil Donahue...come on for offering a different opinion on the Iraqi War...a war we shouldn't have ever been involved in in the first place! The network went too far on that one.
@@martingriff101 sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me... that is a saying our grandparents used to teach us, back when common sense was common.
@@mydogjesus "back when common sense was common." - During racial segregation? When "Blacks to the back of the bus, white's only water fountain" was common?
Phil Donahue's program was the first and only time I"d ever seen a simulcast with America and Russian audiences. I watched with my youthful, misinformed trepidation to see their audiences had the same concerns as our audiences here about any and all aspects of life. I learned from his show that governments do not necessarily represent the people.
Because the mainstream media (Google, TH-cam) hasn't decided whether someone like Ellen is capable of wrongdoing yet. In today's political climate though, that seems unlikely.
7:50 you left out the funniest part of this. The reason they doubted it was a hoax from the beginning was the swastika was drawn backwards….. because he drew it himself in a mirror 😅
To this day it still rubs me the wrong way what happened to Billy Bush,he was uncomfortable, the laugh was clearly "I am stuck here with him" .....he should have been given another chance
@@laurahoward5426yup. encouraged it, & didn’t contradict him. While being a tv host means appeasing a guest, it doesn’t mean you can leave your moral compass at home. The network had the right to say “this guy doesn’t represent us”, even if it was just to protect their image. Now if we could just lose the gross old man who made the remark…
Pee Wee Herman was a TV host: he got the same shaft that Fred Willard got. They were men _being_ men. They weren't in a classroom where little school children could see them. They weren't in a mall where John Q. Public and his frigid wife Dottie could look at them. They were in the dark, during a "routine" _shakedown_ (which meant that some sleeze-ball saw them there and called the National Enquirer at the same time they called the cops. Either that, or those rags called the cops for the bigger story about them getting arrested and booked) The irony is, that poor Billy Bush was only guilty by association. He didn't _do_ anything except listen and laugh nervously at some high-stakes asshole was basically flaunting every schoolboy's dream Fred and Pee-wee lost their jobs. Pee-wee lost his career, his credibility _and_ his character. He should definitely be on this list
@@pacmanfan-sz9ry totally true, but he still understood the level of his fame and never got caught doing anything that would make his young fans look at him with anything other than happiness and laughter. He was a smoker, but still never smoked in public and never allowed himself to be photographed in such a way as to shame his character.
Favorite host of all time: Johnny Carson. A commensurate professional, a man of class. He could be as whimsical or serious as a moment required and loved it if someone made him crack up so hard that he just lost it! He was the crown jewel of hosts. [Change My Mind.]
He supposedly sexually harassed many of his female guests and could be very vindictive, misogynistic and a problem with alcoholin private. There's a reason why he had so many ex wives.
I’m still genuinely shocked Billy Bush had his career ruined when Trump was the one who actually said the awful things. It’s insane that Bush was ruined and Trump got to be the fucking President
That bus they rode were on is just another one that the massive DICKtator continually throws people under while he gets away without consequence. It is truly ridiculous at this point.
That bus they rode on was just another in a long line that the Massive DicKtator continually throws people under in order to avoid any consequences himself. It truly is ridiculous that he keeps getting away with it (so far🤞)
I suspect that has more to do with the poster than it does with the topic. I am as liberal as they get, but the slant shown in all their posts is mind boggling.
I am surprised on the Matt Laurer piece that his role of letting Ann Curry go from Today wasn't mentioned. Also Richard Bey got fired for interviewing Gennifer Flowers in 1996 and his show got cancelled and that was not mentioned.
I like how most of these involve the individual messing it up for themselves, except for number 1, where he was fired because some other guy who later went on to be elected to represent an entire country said some things.
Marc Summers is such an awesome dude. My best friend’s mom has ocd like Marc and it’s no joke. He’s still a producer and he also went back to his original love which was being a broadcaster for baseball. He currently broadcasts for the minor leagues.
I’m still a little surprised that Tucker Carlson got fired from Fox News due to racist comments. I figured that that would get you a _promotion_ at Fox News.
@michaelbrendt: Well, when there are advertising dollars at stake.... there is no free speech. And free speech doesn't mean one can be a racist or misogynist and have everyone accept one's opinion without push back.
27:19 *I* may get in trouble for this, actually, but: I never knew Meghan was black until all the media uproar told me she is. (?) Me: "SHE'S *black*?" Honestly, I truly don't SEE an issue with even *needing* to say "what color she is," other than media fodder.
@@dleland71 he called a black player who was small a little monkey, the last person you could accuse of racism is Howard, he was the biggest ally of Ali, civil rights advocate, he used a term he used for a small player, not color, he was defended by many civil rights leaders, also, he was not fired for it, he left at the end of the season, could not stand it anymore
In regards to clarkson ( funny you did not mention why Clarkson punched the producer ) The hosts had been filming for 14 hours and they had paid said restaurant in advance for the entire crew to be fed. The producer got heated with clarkson who was pissed off about all this and then said producer compared Clarkson to Jimmy Savill. No reason why so clarkson punched him.
I am in no way defending what he said, but he WAS ambushed by the news crew in a bar. they caught him with his guard down - and he was quite lubricated - and he gave them the story of their careers. Who here hasn't said anything offensive while drinking? The other 330 million of us haven't had a news crew in front of us while in that condition, though.
It's sad that you can't even defend your family now. No Alec Baldwin Should not have said What he said In the heat of a moment when someone is pressing your Newly born child And wife and won't back off to the point they run out in the street to stay on you something has to be done.
I mean, it was funny because it was such an obviously sexist thing to say. Like, who says that? He was obviously exaggerating and making fun of such attitudes. Jeez. I'm a female, btw.
Being a Black woman over 60, this shit is embarrassing. I own my home, worked over 40 years, have no children, come from a long list of Veterans and this deplorable behavior here just Stinks. That's as harsh as I'm going to get. Geez. Lord help Us.😢
Ironic that you said Lord help us Humans, whenever you're initially saying that these people deserved the worst punishments for simple, Human, errors, that didn't even really hurt anyone: the slip of a tongue for sure some did much worse sex acts, but a lot of them simply misspoke amongst many hours and episodes of filming.. More than half of them simply Said something controversial, God forbid!
@@SeptemberChild1835 Gretchen Carlson was silenced for a long time after she complained about a colleague sexually harassing her and Marc Summers had undiagnosed severe OCD which caused him to get fired from his job.
Break the law and pay the price... however, it is interesting how many people did NOT break any laws, but behaved in a way that someone decided was "inappropriate", so they lost their jobs. No real "free speech" in the USA, is there. 🙂
@@TheJapanChannelDcom Of course it is. These people weren't imprisoned, they were fired. If you say something that angers your employer and costs them customers, you're going to lose your job. That's how jobs work.
I'm surprised that Howard Cosell didn't make the list. He was fired from ABC in 1985 after the release of his book I've Never Played the Game where he talks about some of his colleagues and the "jockocracy".
If true, Donahue is a shame. He said it perfectly. What is wrong with having one show that is critical of war? We now know there were no WMDs. We spent trillions over 20 years toward what end. Yeah we had to respond to 911. But I protracted 20 year war was just plain stupid. Actually, it was really smart by the people who benefited most at the expense of American people and most importantly, the American military personnel.
Everyone was against it even before WMD were searched for. Surprised Donahue didn't have Saddam Hussein on his show as a guest, as it seems he (and you) are an apologist for him. Donahue would have criticized the US entering WW2 after Pearl Harbour as well.
Chris Rock points out the results of slavery evident in sport, everyone nods. Jimmy the Greek says exactly the same fact, career over. Even in the 80s.
Two things: 1. How can you put Marc Summers on this list.?! OCD doesn’t even compare to the scale of the others. 2. How in the hell is Jeremy Kyle not on this list?!
Exactly. Phil Donahue should NOT be on a list with scumbag abusers & racists. God forbid someone stand up to a manufactured war frenzy. The twits who fired him should have been fired themselves.
2:20 that’s objectively true, it’s just not OK to talk about UNLESS you are black. Jemele Hill made an entire career out of pointing this out, and Colin Kaepernick was paid by Netflix to repeat it.
My 78 Pinto was the most reliable vehicle I'd ever owned. 150K miles when I gave it to my ex who promptly traded it. Today, I own a 1980 Shay Model A mounted on a Pinto platform. Low low miles on the 2.3 but the same reliability I remember. It's a hoot to drive with disc brakes and rack+pinion.
A self-important fool that had no education and proved it on every broadcast- be it Radio or TV, Roger Ailes produced Limbaugh's short-lived and disastrous attempt at converting his radio following onto the small screen- it lasted less than 1 season and was thankfully thrown onto the ash-heap of flops in media. It took a creep of a president to "honor" this miscreant with a medal of freedom (FFS) , another of Trump's impeachable offences!
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Reply: Ann Curry is the one I have the most respect for. Remember, it was alleged Matt Lauer played a huge part in her leaving NBC News. Which he continued get away with long after that resignation and up into the "Me Too Movement."
Jay Leno
seth meyers, hands down.
@@dietotaku It's gonna be Johnny Carson. the second is Dick Clark.
Ricky Lake!
I feel bad for Marc Summers, and I also think that's a violation of the ADA. Firing someone because of their OCD is discrimination
ADA was still very new and not well enforced
Notice they said his old was making it difficult for him to work with others. That's part of his job. They couldn't accommodate him and since working with others is part of the job, he in fact can be let go without legal recourse. Chances are, he didn't fight it but he's doing great now.
He was mean though. I don’t think it was the ocd but his general meanness and inability to work with others 🤷♀️
Getting fired for having OCD sounds like lawsuit
Bill O’Reilly discussing sexual harassment with Matt Lauer? The irony is so thick you can slice it with a knife.
But don't worry, Al Franken will call out the harrassers!
I don’t like getting political despite my conservative nature, but that made me smile.
@@Jeremiah_Rivers76 Not that I am starved for validation,* but did you mean compfunk's comment or mine made you smile?
*actually, I am starved for validation, but that's not why I ask.
Its a safe bet to assume a conservative is up to sex crimes.
The me-too moment eats their own
That's truly ridiculous what happened to Marc Summers. The guy was going public with a personal issue and bringing light and much needed help for others in the same situation. It was so much fun to watch him on Nickelodeon...he's a great TV host.
Ripa I'm sure wanted her husband he needs a job now the kids were all old enough not to be helicopter dad
By firing him for disclosing his disability, wouldn't that be discrimination against the disabled?
@@lorrainethepain yes, but the ADA was new and toothless at the time
Donahue was way ahead of his time.
he wasn't wrong either.. but the US military and Govt did not want ppl criticizing their war...
Maybe they knew how wrong they were going into Iraq
Donahue has earned my deepest respect in recent years. I used to think his show was the start of sensationalist tabloid entertainment. But I now realise he was one of the more discerning clever hosts in that era.
@@BadWebDiver it's a bit of both tbh
@@cometstyles3772 So you wish Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden were still alive?
You're the type who probably thought the US shouldn't have bombed Japan in retaliation for Pearl Harbour.
Phil Donahue was another very good guy who stood up for what was right and got railroaded by the bad guys
Seems like he's the only one on the list who got booted for having a reasonable position on something
His show was the greatest. No gimmicks and he had on the guests that were strange to us years before anyone. He had Midwest truckers who were trans long before anyone even had these kinds of things and he always treated everyone with respect.
@@markherbert4723 well what about the first female Fox & Friends host?
I really liked watching Donahue and it stinks he was fired.
I loved him at first but even though I was somewhat liberal when I was younger, Watching O'Donough reminded me to think. Do I agree? Do I disagree?(go do my own pre-internet looking.
Wow.. Donahue fired for being against invading Iraq.
Haven’t you noticed we’re a pro war country even worse now
America want everyone to be patriotic and say nothing. They also seem to think if you criticize the reason to go to war which the top people decide then you must hate the men and women who serve in the war. Well unless it comes out they are gay or trans then you have to hate them. Both are absurd.
Dan Rather also got fired for exposing how GWB got out of going to Vietnam. He didn't do anything wrong, he didn't make up anything, he didn't embellish-- he just happen to piss off the GOP.
Anti-Iraq war equals pro-Saddam Hussein.
I suppose he thinks Hitler should have been left alone as well.
In the end, I suppose, he was right. All the reasons put forth after 9/11 for invading Iraq have been shown to be a bunch of malarky. It was just an excuse for 'W' to finish what his dad didn't. And then we were mired in Iraq for so many years afterward.
Can someone tell me why going to an adult movie theater is such a big deal? Just because you're a news anchor doesn't mean you can not have a private life?
I've never been to an adult movie theater, but remember when there were many in Hollywood. Back in the 1980s I was called for jury duty at the Hollywood Municipal Courthouse. I ended up as a juror on a case involving a man caught "pleasuring himself" while watching the film. Apparently the police routinely walked through the theaters to catch guys.
It was all pretty sleazy, and I can understand why an employer wouldn't want to be connected with it.
Agreed. Same with Peewee Herman.
@@hopefletcher7420 they usually are stinky.. 🦨🦨
@@hopefletcher7420 sleazy or not. its not exactly illegal. Plus its private life, so why should an employer care tbh.
@@robindreier9796 it was considered a sleazy place to be,like a real dive bar or massage parlor.back when people cared about having a good reputation.. "a stand up kind of guy".they were fun tho....yeah I'm old,thanks for reading.
I've seen coworkers getting involved...but to have the Exs start dating each other is WILD 😂
My cousin and his wife used to be married to 2 other people who cheated on them, once upon a time ago in the 1950s. The cheaters didn't stay together, but my cousin & wife were married forever & raised 4 kids together. Nice people.
@@hensonlaura wowsers! Good for them!
I really like that one.
I loved that they both had a happy ending after being cheated on though
People lose their careers for offending a couple of people . Yet we have a presidential candidate who is a felon.
What a weird dream?
Well we live in a world of hypocrisy
A 'felon' because of a weaponized DOJ. A complete abuse of power. The real felons are currently in office destroying a once great nation. They're counting on the ignorance of people like you who watch MSM lies and believe them. Trump 2024 to save this now 3rd world nation.
I know, right?? Not to mention him being a pedo as well #FJB
@@unker29 I don't believe he is. Political bs. Ever since he said he was going to clean the swamp, s--t has been happening. I'm going to vote for him. It's better than the garbage that's happening now.
They did Marc Summers so dirty 😢
Hearing about how he was treated by employers for having OCD sadly echoes how a lot of people with disabilities are mistreated in the workplace and even punished if they speak out. It's one reason I didn't used to disclose having a chronic illness to past employers.
I agree no one would choose to have OCD and my life would be easier without it,but people with any type of mental illness or disability is treated badly by employers.
What did they base his firing on? I know it was about the OCD, but what exactly about the OCD?
@@pindlelou It sounds like it was him saying how the station treated him. He blew the whistle on them and they didn't like it.
“Brian Williams is the only person to be fired for lying about the war in Iraq.” -John Fugelsang
He started giving David Letterman a "hero" story, just to "brag" or have 'cred' and it backfired.
Poignant.
I don't know who had the funnier 'oops I got caught for lying about a war zone story' between Brian Williams or Hillary Clinton. She claimed to have been shot at while landing some where during her time as Sec of State and that too was proven a lie.
Hillary did the exact same thing.
Didn't Pres Biden just lie about his uncle being eaten by cannibals in World War 2...
Phil Donahue was right.
Yeah. He was, and it’s a damn shame that our Country ended up in a war that really meant nothing in the end.
Marc Summers getting let go for having OCD is sillly.
blew me away. i have it, yet take medicine to
stop it. thank God! i was going nuts.
Not if it impaired his ability to perform his job
Watch it again. He wasn't fired for that,he was fired for talking about stuff about his bosses
He wasn't let go for OCD, he was let go because people thought he was difficult because of the OCD
I'm surprised that Chris Cuomo wasnt on this list. I was surprised when I found he helped his brother (the governor of New York) cover up some suspicious behavior.
This is a woke channel they will ignore
How could he help him cover something up? He only had one show on one network. He couldn't control any other reporters.
@@faykguru I don't really know. I only heard about it after the fact. It was featured on another list. I actually liked Chris. When covid was just starting, I would watch CNN 24/7, since I had nothing better to do.
I remember Chris Cuomo confronting his brother about their political disagreements, then Andrew responded by telling Chris to go visit their mother. 😮
He didn't.
You need to do "750 WatchMojo videos that are just rehashed or reshuffled old videos that they show again and again with nothing new about them."
I agree, but to their defense it’s very hard to come up with brand new lists after doing multiple everyday for YEARS
@@ImTheCrew Not a defense. If you're simply regurgitating clips then it's a good indicator that you need to reduce your frequency of videos
If you’re gonna bitch and whine about WatchMojo remaking videos then maybe make your own TH-cam channel lil bud
I get being annoyed, but I'm going to be blunt and say that the level of bitterness in this comment is just SAD. If you don't like the vids, don't watch them. Watchmojo caters to more than one audience, watch the ones that you like instead.
@@fattybolger1 what should they do? Shut down?
The irony of the Phil Donohue firing is who replaced him: Keith Olbermann.
Olbermann recently stated (on his podcast) that Donahue was fired for the ulterior motive of monetary reasons: unlike everyone else on MSNBC, his crew were unionized.
How so??
@@SeptemberChild1835 Dude was basically a younger Donohue..
@@cometstyles3772 Oh, I see. Thank you!
I've always perceived Keith Olbermann to be more extremely outspoken than Donahue. Phil Donahue was a nice guy who interviewed controversial guests and encouraged us to think about current issues. That's something they both have in common, except I thought that Donahue didn't seem as angry as Keith sometimes does.
Now I see where Jessie Smollet got his idea from. Downey Jr.
😆😆😆
I agree. I forgot about Downy.....Look up Tawany BRawley, Wappinger Falls, NY, 1988
@@lookingup82
She did all that to avoid getting in trouble for spending the night with her boyfriend, right? Or being out past curfew?
@@missyann7588 yes. She said she was terrified of her step-father. One officer committed suicide-lost all pension just to defend himself. Google and you'll see what Rev Sharpton looked like in 1989 or 90, Wattinger Falls, NY
@@lookingup82
Sharptob was HUGE! They never questioned what she was saying. Everyone should question everything…especially when comes to our government. Which cops are a part of. I don’t pretend to be a fan of cops…but NO ONE should be falsely accused of anything…especially something as heinous as what she was saying. And nothing happened to none of them.
This was the original “Jussie smollett”
Some of these firings are ridiculous. Investigations into an affair? Wow...good to see media companies are tackling the hard subjects.🙄
Dishonorable mention Don Imus he got fired from CBS Radio for attacking the entire Rutgers Women's Basketball team by calling them names in 2007
Mr. Imus called them nappy heads. In Stevie Wonders song I Wish, the first line is 'Looking back on when I was a little nappy-headed boy.'
Some, maybe most, consider it to be derogatory when it's more like a description. The connotation and inference is negatively perceived and Mr. Imus paid the price.
@tomcusack884 Technically he said "nappy-headed hoes" ...I took it as a term of endearment, but hey that's just me.
@@tomcusack884you missed a word. He called them "nappy headed hos". So, maybe a little worse.
I'm surprised Imus wasn't included.
@@tomcusack884Stevie Wonder is Black!! And that's NOT what he said he called them NAPPY HEADED HOES!!!! 🙄🤡 If you're going to tell a story tell the WHOLE story!! 🤡
I remember Fred Willard on Fernwood Tonight. That was back in the late 70s and early 80s. We laughed until our sides hurt!
Fred was also in the original Salem's Lot. Great movie!
Hysterical show! My favorite was his guest that was a chinodonist 😂
He's a great classic!
17:37 You're missing one point Megan Kelly got 60 Million out of the deal!!
omg i cannot with the irony of chris matthews sitting next to the slogan of elizabeth warren discussing a man fired for sexual misconduct against women only for liz herself to later call out his OWN similar misconduct (during an interview in which he defended bloomberg's misconduct) resulting in matthews being fired 😂😂😂
30 spots and no room for Bill Maher getting fired from Politically Incorrect?
no one cares about him
@@matthewgriffin3486keep dreaming.
@@matthewgriffin3486 Ya, and everybody cares about some of the scrubs that made the list?
@@ingsve sorry cringe ass dorks care about him myb
Or, Don Imus for referring to the predominately Black Rutgers University women's basketball players as "nappy-headed HOs"!!
Morton Downey JR raised suspicions about the skinhead attack when the swastika on his face appeared to be a mirror image, like what you might see if used a mirror to paint words or symbols on your face.
If you look at graffiti swastikas drawn all over the place, they're drawn both ways. People don't know which way they're supposed to be drawn. Having it "mirrored" on his face doesn't mean anything.
@@RatKindler Ha Ha Ha! Obviously a Morton Downey fan! Keep telling yourself that!
@@SeptemberChild1835 Keep telling yourself that people know a lot about Nazis. I have no idea which way the swastika goes and thus would have a 50% chance of getting it right. It could just as easily turn into a Buddhist symbol. BTW, I know that Downey is an actor but I don't think I've seen him in anything.
@@RatKindler White supremacists and neo-Nazis would know. One way is a Nazi symbol, the other way is a Hindu symbol.
@RatKindler He wasn't an actor. He was a tabloid talk show host.
Anyone remember Joe Pyne? He was a very popular confrontational TV host in the Los Angeles area during the 1960s. His downfall was telling his television audience that the only reason he felt safe, was caring his own gun, which he displayed on live TV. That turned out to be a big no-no at that time on television.
He was the first conservative ranting fool, his replacements have multiplied to an onerous degree.
7:26 Nice to see where Jussie Smollett got his stupid ideas from.
I was thinking the same
But damn follow the formula. Keep it to yourself. Two accomplices and a check ( paper trail)= jail🤦🏾♂️.
And Denis Vladimirovich Molla. But we're not allowed to talk about that. For obvious reasons🤣
Just Juicy and Hasan Minhaj starring in "Brown Man Makes Up Racism Cuz That Makes America Feel Good" stories lulz
@@darylpaulk he hasn’t seen a day in jail yet
Best part is, he had to know about this guy, yet he thought he could do the exact same thing and get different results
Don Lemon getting fired twice, a feel good story.
Agreed Lemon is one of the most racist people in the media.
How do you not have Piers Morgan on this list?
they’re not very creative.
Jeffrey Tobin? Anthony weiner? Etc. self immolation.
He’s in another one, this is old, they just replay it
Did he ever get fired?
Bill "Fuck it we'll do it live" O’Reilly
Angus Deayton was very smart not many people can make fun of themselves. And he somehow still ruined, What a shame.
I legit laughed when he made that comment about himself!
Ian Hislop said many years later that when then host becomes the joke of the show it distracts from the purpose of the show and whilst they tried to overcome it, it just couldn't continue with Deayton in the host chair. They thought the joke would last a week, Deayton took the piss out of himself, Ian brought a copy of the newspaper and then Paul Merton wore the newspaper on his tshirt, they thought that would be the end of it. But then when Deayton took the piss out of the guests and they turned around and said yeah but what about you.... it defeats the purpose of the show.
@@JamesLehartProductions It worked for Jimmy car after his "tax problems"
He's merely a poor man's John Cleese.
I liked Angus on the tv series KYTV and as the straight guy to Rowan Atkinson's sketch comedy.
I’ll never understand how Billy Bush got fired for laughing at the joke, yet Trump got elected for _making_ the joke.
Are you dumb?
Trump wasn't elected for making that comment. The other option was simply that bad. The comment was made 11 years before the election. He was a known billionaire playboy when he said it, and it's completely true. Gold digging women would let a billionaire and famous person touch them wherever he wanted if they could get something out of it and you know it.
Well one is run but a private company who decided to get rid of the host..while trump was voted in by the people even after they knew what he did.
How was the joke Joe elected
He didn't get elected because of what he said on the bus. Do you have a problem with Biden when he said "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black"?
Most of the people on this list deserved to be canceled. One exception was Phil Donahue...come on for offering a different opinion on the Iraqi War...a war we shouldn't have ever been involved in in the first place! The network went too far on that one.
Alec Baldwin was defending his wife and baby. Most might use some slurrs in that situation.
@@jupitershanty So you think its okay to use racist slurs at certain times really!!
@@martingriff101 sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me... that is a saying our grandparents used to teach us, back when common sense was common.
@@mydogjesus You think racial slurs, misogyny or in my own case been called a cripple should be pushed away as just name??? Says a lot about you
@@mydogjesus "back when common sense was common." - During racial segregation? When "Blacks to the back of the bus, white's only water fountain" was common?
Phil Donahue's program was the first and only time I"d ever seen a simulcast with America and Russian audiences. I watched with my youthful, misinformed trepidation to see their audiences had the same concerns as our audiences here about any and all aspects of life. I learned from his show that governments do not necessarily represent the people.
Why isn't Ellen on this list?
Because the mainstream media (Google, TH-cam) hasn't decided whether someone like Ellen is capable of wrongdoing yet. In today's political climate though, that seems unlikely.
It’s labeled as 30, not 31. 🫠
That’s easy, she represents almost every demographic in a single person that we are supposed to worship (horrible person she is aside)
No kidding
Nobody likes her ?
7:50 you left out the funniest part of this. The reason they doubted it was a hoax from the beginning was the swastika was drawn backwards….. because he drew it himself in a mirror 😅
Imagine firing somebody for something they said years ago in a tweet
To this day it still rubs me the wrong way what happened to Billy Bush,he was uncomfortable, the laugh was clearly "I am stuck here with him" .....he should have been given another chance
He’s a fucking Bush I seriously doubt you can make him uncomfortable
He egged him on, " aren't you going to hug her?" Instantly after the offensive talk
@@laurahoward5426yup. encouraged it, & didn’t contradict him. While being a tv host means appeasing a guest, it doesn’t mean you can leave your moral compass at home. The network had the right to say “this guy doesn’t represent us”, even if it was just to protect their image. Now if we could just lose the gross old man who made the remark…
Pee Wee Herman was a TV host: he got the same shaft that Fred Willard got. They were men _being_ men. They weren't in a classroom where little school children could see them. They weren't in a mall where John Q. Public and his frigid wife Dottie could look at them. They were in the dark, during a "routine" _shakedown_ (which meant that some sleeze-ball saw them there and called the National Enquirer at the same time they called the cops. Either that, or those rags called the cops for the bigger story about them getting arrested and booked) The irony is, that poor Billy Bush was only guilty by association. He didn't _do_ anything except listen and laugh nervously at some high-stakes asshole was basically flaunting every schoolboy's dream
Fred and Pee-wee lost their jobs. Pee-wee lost his career, his credibility _and_ his character. He should definitely be on this list
Practicing safe sex. Gotta hand it to them.
but Pee-Wee’s show was already over beforehand as Paul Rubens wanted to move on from that
@@pacmanfan-sz9ry totally true, but he still understood the level of his fame and never got caught doing anything that would make his young fans look at him with anything other than happiness and laughter. He was a smoker, but still never smoked in public and never allowed himself to be photographed in such a way as to shame his character.
@@koriw1701 His young audience would only know because the media made it public.
Favorite host of all time: Johnny Carson. A commensurate professional, a man of class. He could be as whimsical or serious as a moment required and loved it if someone made him crack up so hard that he just lost it! He was the crown jewel of hosts. [Change My Mind.]
He was a crappy father.
He supposedly sexually harassed many of his female guests and could be very vindictive, misogynistic and a problem with alcoholin private. There's a reason why he had so many ex wives.
@@pigbearcub he acknowledged his drinking issues on 60 Minutes in an interview with Mike Wallace
Nope! The best host of all time is Carson’s best friend, David Letterman!! 😃
@@SeptemberChild1835 Letterman himself would say otherwise, he acknowledges without Johnny, he has no career on NBC
I love how they showed hosts who had been fired interviewing other hosts who had been fired.
I’m still genuinely shocked Billy Bush had his career ruined when Trump was the one who actually said the awful things. It’s insane that Bush was ruined and Trump got to be the fucking President
It's wild isn't it?
That bus they rode were on is just another one that the massive DICKtator continually throws people under while he gets away without consequence. It is truly ridiculous at this point.
That bus they rode on was just another in a long line that the Massive DicKtator continually throws people under in order to avoid any consequences himself. It truly is ridiculous that he keeps getting away with it (so far🤞)
Pretty sure him insisting that woman hug the mango moron right after he told Billy what he would fo to women had a lot to do with it
Awful thing? Lol. You would hear worse on a school playground.
Did anyone else notice how many times Fox was involved?
I suspect that has more to do with the poster than it does with the topic. I am as liberal as they get, but the slant shown in all their posts is mind boggling.
Fantastic job Gabe! Thanks for stepping up and being courageously enough to do the job that needed to be done!❤
Some are deserved, others aren't. 🎉
Yeah, that Robach and Holmes thing was clearly a partner swap; 'no cheating!' 🤣
Right? Marc Summers opened up about his mental struggles and got fired
I can’t believe Connie Chung and Bryant Gumble didn’t make this list.
Or Geraldo Rivera.
I am surprised on the Matt Laurer piece that his role of letting Ann Curry go from Today wasn't mentioned. Also Richard Bey got fired for interviewing Gennifer Flowers in 1996 and his show got cancelled and that was not mentioned.
Karma is a b**ch
Thanks for reminding us of that pathetic scene..
I always liked Donahue
Yes, he was excellent!
@@SeptemberChild1835the last of the genuine journalists he was the real deal
@@darthtraya5992 👍👍
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
-Pat O’Brien
I like how most of these involve the individual messing it up for themselves, except for number 1, where he was fired because some other guy who later went on to be elected to represent an entire country said some things.
Marc Summers is such an awesome dude. My best friend’s mom has ocd like Marc and it’s no joke.
He’s still a producer and he also went back to his original love which was being a broadcaster for baseball. He currently broadcasts for the minor leagues.
Some of these are just political correctness gone bad
Marc Summers is fired for something he can’t help?!
They'd have just let him go, but he didn't like being touched.
@@paulj0557tonehead I understand. But yeah, ocd is something hard to control. I have some as well.
I’m still a little surprised that Tucker Carlson got fired from Fox News due to racist comments. I figured that that would get you a _promotion_ at Fox News.
🤣🤣
Exactamundo.
Compfunk2: Gluck Gluck Gluck I love you, CNN!
Every news outlet is bias to their own political agenda/party. Fox News isn’t alone.
Believing any news media is honest is pathetic.
ick, regarding those that felt comfortable to say creepy things on camera, i can only imagine what the cast and crew had to endure behind scenes.
I'm surprised that Mario Batali from The Chew or Don Imus weren't included here
yeah, and Rachel Nichols from the jump
Ann curry is my favorite
Someone reminded all of the way Matt Lauer threw her under the bus when she was released from the Today show.
It sickens me that we live in a society where we have to apologize for believing or having thoughts that may not agree with an agenda.
Your free to speak, but not free from consequences of the things you said 😂😂😂😂
Oh, just like under McCarthyism (like Norm said)?
@michaelbrendt: Well, when there are advertising dollars at stake.... there is no free speech. And free speech doesn't
mean one can be a racist or misogynist and have everyone accept one's opinion without push back.
The Wordanazis have taken over!
How do you say that in 1930s German?
Don't Think Sharon Osborne Should Of Been Fired! Haven't Watched The Talk Since. Think It's Finally Being Cancelled
Once again, Mr. Donahue was a pioneer who was ahead of his time.
27:19 *I* may get in trouble for this, actually, but: I never knew Meghan was black until all the media uproar told me she is. (?) Me: "SHE'S *black*?" Honestly, I truly don't SEE an issue with even *needing* to say "what color she is," other than media fodder.
We didn't either.
Megan is bi-racial, she spun a
false narrative. Photos of her kids they are very very fair skinned. Nothing would indicate a drop of bi-racial blood.
Meghan Merkle is half black,and half white. Black mother, white father.
@@tinatolsdorf4316you missed the point completely.
@@tinatolsdorf4316 So what, who cares?
You guys missed one! Howard Cosell's comment that got him fired. I shall not repeat it here, but he deserved a mention. Great video.
which one? I remember him comparing willie Mcgee to E.T. lol
@@moedark4390 I believe it was the one about a black football player running with the ball...
@@dleland71 he called a black player who was small a little monkey, the last person you could accuse of racism is Howard, he was the biggest ally of Ali, civil rights advocate, he used a term he used for a small player, not color, he was defended by many civil rights leaders, also, he was not fired for it, he left at the end of the season, could not stand it anymore
You afraid of getting cancelled if you did repeat it? 🤣🤣🤣
Marc Summers was fired for OCD? WTF?! Also, is anyone not surprised that Megan Kelly was sacked by NBC?!
I miss old Top Gear
We all do.
You have an empty life.
We all do
In regards to clarkson ( funny you did not mention why Clarkson punched the producer ) The hosts had been filming for 14 hours and they had paid said restaurant in advance for the entire crew to be fed. The producer got heated with clarkson who was pissed off about all this and then said producer compared Clarkson to Jimmy Savill. No reason why so clarkson punched him.
Most Americans don't know who Jimmy Saville was; a celebrity in Brittain for decades who was finally outed as a sequel predator.
They did mention it.
@@rad4579 timestamp?
@@Vikturus22 11:56
@@rad4579 yes im familiar with that. I was referring to the reason why Clarkson punched said producer ( Over the Jimmy Savil comment )
I am no fan of Fox News but I applaud Gretchen Carlson.
Phillip Schofield shouldn’t be on this list because he quit; he wasn’t fired.
Jumped before pushed
Leaving town ahead of the posse
He hardly had a choice.
And people were way too harsh on him.
I remember the Jimmy The Greek incident
Drunk and stupid thing to say on camera
I am in no way defending what he said, but he WAS ambushed by the news crew in a bar. they caught him with his guard down - and he was quite lubricated - and he gave them the story of their careers. Who here hasn't said anything offensive while drinking? The other 330 million of us haven't had a news crew in front of us while in that condition, though.
I respect the few here that didn't make some lame apology to hold onto a position no decent person would want anyway.
It's sad that you can't even defend your family now. No Alec Baldwin Should not have said What he said In the heat of a moment when someone is pressing your Newly born child And wife and won't back off to the point they run out in the street to stay on you something has to be done.
Besides, I didn't hear any homophobic slur in that footage.
I think the papparazzi guy made it up.
Let's do it live!! 😂😂🤣
Favorite host of all time? Definitely Space Ghost.
Morton Downey Jr walked so jussie smollet could run.
Morton Downey Jr. chain smoked so Jussie Smollett could smoke screen.
The MAGAts are still whining about Smollett. #hilarious
Smollet didn't learn that much 😆. He involved others and left a paper trail. And that got him jailed 🤦🏾♂️
@@darylpaulk true as hell 😂
Lol
Not gonna lie. When that dude next to Gretchen Carlson said “women are everywhere. Letting them play golf, tennis. It’s outta control” I LOST IT.😂😂💀
I mean, it was funny because it was such an obviously sexist thing to say. Like, who says that? He was obviously exaggerating and making fun of such attitudes. Jeez. I'm a female, btw.
@@pindlelou right?!?
Sharon Osborne got crapped on. They wanted her gone period. Even if they had to lie or exaggerate , it didn't matter.😡
Being a Black woman over 60, this shit is embarrassing. I own my home, worked over 40 years, have no children, come from a long list of Veterans and this deplorable behavior here just Stinks. That's as harsh as I'm going to get. Geez. Lord help Us.😢
Ironic that you said Lord help us Humans, whenever you're initially saying that these people deserved the worst punishments for simple, Human, errors, that didn't even really hurt anyone: the slip of a tongue for sure some did much worse sex acts, but a lot of them simply misspoke amongst many hours and episodes of filming.. More than half of them simply Said something controversial, God forbid!
Your message is confusing. What is your point?
Kathy Griffin is someone for which I never cared.
Yeah, I'm a liberal and I won't claim her.
Outside of America, most people only know Morten Downey Jr. as that crazy reporter from Predator 2.
Maybe where you are, but he’s recognized as Iron Man in tons of places outside the US.
@@catmaxwell6691 … took me a few seconds, but 🤣😂
@@richardhart9204 😉
Gretchen Carlson and Marc Summers did not deserve the treatment they got.
How so? Explain!
@@SeptemberChild1835 Gretchen Carlson was silenced for a long time after she complained about a colleague sexually harassing her and Marc Summers had undiagnosed severe OCD which caused him to get fired from his job.
@@kaykay3772 Oh, I see! Thank you! 😃
@@SeptemberChild1835 👍🏻!
Break the law and pay the price... however, it is interesting how many people did NOT break any laws, but behaved in a way that someone decided was "inappropriate", so they lost their jobs. No real "free speech" in the USA, is there. 🙂
We have the freedom to speak, yes, but that doesn't give people freedom from consequences.
@@PopcornLoverr So that isn't "freedom", is it.
@@TheJapanChannelDcom Of course it is. These people weren't imprisoned, they were fired. If you say something that angers your employer and costs them customers, you're going to lose your job. That's how jobs work.
@@PopcornLoverr So if a fired employee comes back to work with a gun, then that is the consequence?
Should people be penalized for saying hurtful or controversial things even if it's objectively true?
I'm surprised that Howard Cosell didn't make the list. He was fired from ABC in 1985 after the release of his book I've Never Played the Game where he talks about some of his colleagues and the "jockocracy".
Sharon got canceled but piers didnt ?
Piers is an idiot.
If true, Donahue is a shame. He said it perfectly. What is wrong with having one show that is critical of war? We now know there were no WMDs. We spent trillions over 20 years toward what end. Yeah we had to respond to 911. But I protracted 20 year war was just plain stupid. Actually, it was really smart by the people who benefited most at the expense of American people and most importantly, the American military personnel.
Really getting shot at or killed benefitted the Military. Bush was settling a score for his father.
Back then they acted like you hated our soldiers if you criticized the war.
Everyone was against it even before WMD were searched for.
Surprised Donahue didn't have Saddam Hussein on his show as a guest, as it seems he (and you) are an apologist for him.
Donahue would have criticized the US entering WW2 after Pearl Harbour as well.
Chris Rock points out the results of slavery evident in sport, everyone nods. Jimmy the Greek says exactly the same fact, career over. Even in the 80s.
Two things:
1. How can you put Marc Summers on this list.?! OCD doesn’t even compare to the scale of the others.
2. How in the hell is Jeremy Kyle not on this list?!
If Donahue's show went from 1967 to 1996, that is not 26 years...
I think that I first watched Donahue when the show was in Cleveland, way before he moved it to Chicago.
26... 29. Who gives a shit
23:15 I remember Rick Sanchez on CNN, he turned himself into a pickle one episode. Funniest thing I ever saw.
Poor Donahue, if only we had him back to criticize everything going on
At least Baldwin made a killer comeback
🤦 lol
@@bricknmotor 🔫
Shouldn't there be a distinction between those who reported on others poor behavior and those that have behaved badly?
Exactly. Phil Donahue should NOT be on a list with scumbag abusers & racists. God forbid someone stand up to a manufactured war frenzy. The twits who fired him should have been fired themselves.
2:20 that’s objectively true, it’s just not OK to talk about UNLESS you are black. Jemele Hill made an entire career out of pointing this out, and Colin Kaepernick was paid by Netflix to repeat it.
What about Don IMUS???
My 78 Pinto was the most reliable vehicle I'd ever owned. 150K miles when I gave it to my ex who promptly traded it. Today, I own a 1980 Shay Model A mounted on a Pinto platform. Low low miles on the 2.3 but the same reliability I remember. It's a hoot to drive with disc brakes and rack+pinion.
You should do
Top 10/20 reasons why Teen Titans Go aren’t Heroes/should be in jail
Top 10/20 best cartoon villain teamups
T. CARLSON was definitely GREAT being FIRED😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉
Until i saw his face here, i hadn't realized how great it's been to never have to see or hear from Rush Limbaugh again.
Yes!!!
When he was alive, you were free not to watch him.
@@castlerock58 Derp
A self-important fool that had no education and proved it on every broadcast- be it Radio or TV, Roger Ailes produced Limbaugh's short-lived and disastrous attempt at converting his radio following onto the small screen- it lasted less than 1 season and was thankfully thrown onto the ash-heap of flops in media. It took a creep of a president to "honor" this miscreant with a medal of freedom (FFS) , another of Trump's impeachable offences!
I never knew that about Mark Summers💔
He was my childhood
Jeeez….. Fox is included in a large part of this list. Wonder why🤭
Because there are douchebags who have worked there just like anywhere else?