WWAWD Don Imus?

[RIP-Allen-Lanier]

"Those whoreses coiffeseses are frizzy to a fault"

 

[LingerLonger]

This is all very funny. Imus sucked, and I always enjoyed it when Howie would go off on him, which was frequently. It's very amusing how when you consider everything everyone's ever said on NY talk radio, it was nappy-headed hoes that arguably did the most career damage.

Ah you reminded me of something. O&A did the 'slave girl' bit one day before Nappy Headed Ho. Where Opie, Louis CK, and Patrice repeatedly said the word 'nigger' on air. And Francine in character as a slave girl apologized to her slave master for "blowing the field nigger". That got zero mentions from the media though. Imus was just such an easy target for the nigger outrage machine compared to O&A.

 

[RIP-Allen-Lanier]

Ah you reminded me of something. O&A did the 'slave girl' bit one day before Nappy Headed Ho. Where Opie, Louis CK, and Patrice repeatedly said the word 'nigger' on air. And Francine in character as a slave girl apologized to her slave master for "blowing the field nigger". That got zero mentions from the media though. Imus was just such an easy target for the nigger outrage machine compared to O&A.

that was a fawkin good bit if I'm being pf honest right now

 

[DooDooBrown]

My parents used to watch Imus every morning, and when we went on road trips they listened to him too. He was pretty boring, but there was one time where Bernard said something about a clip where a cheerleader did a split and her tampon fell out. Imus went to commercial on the radio but I guess forgot he was still on on MSNBC and said “What the fuck was that bullshit?!”
before they could drop out. That was the most interesting thing I remember happening on there.

 

[BallaShotCalla]

Imus's career is hilarious. When he first started working in radio he was fired for saying 'hell' on air which considered indecent enough that most radio stations would not allow their hosts to say things like "oh hell" or "go to hell" even on accident. Things like talking over the records would be an immediate firing as well. But Imus would sometimes talk over his least favorite songs the entire song until the station allowed to remove those songs from his rotation. Imus had more characters than Norton at one point. Moby Worm and Reverend Hargis or whatever were his most famous. During his 'nappy headed' incident he referred to Reverend Sharpton as Reverend Hargis a bunch of times by accident.

Imus is the guy who got radio stations banned from making crank calls. He was making real prank calls to random people, politicians, businesses. A few times he dialed people on air and used their real numbers on air which lead to them getting bombarded with calls and him getting harassment complaints. He made a fake call to his own producer but pretended on air that he was calling a local McDonald's restaurant as a general from the National Guard and requested several thousand cheeseburgers for an emergency. It was fake and scripted call but people reported it to the FCC and the government made a new rule that radio stations had to tell all callers "you are on the radio" which ended all prank calls. Basically every prank call outside of "Bill's dead" and "Donna wants to know" were fake since then. Imus's first standup comedy album (yes he did standup) was called "1,200 Hamburgers To Go" after that prank call.

Imus eventually made it to WNBC in NYC in the 1970s, but by that point was a raging alcoholic. He was late almost every single day to work during the first year. Not like Erock late by a few minutes. But literally just sleeping through the first hour of the show in a drunken stupor. By the time he was in year two of his contract he was missing over half the shows on air because of drinking. He stopped showing up the majority of days of work and would just drink into a blackout. So he got fired of course.

A decade later Imus gets rehired by WNBC after rebuilding his career in Cleveland. This time he replaces booze with cocaine. And is now a raging cocaine addict and insanely paranoid because of drugs. Imus would sometimes refuse to take callers on air because he was afraid that they were undercover FBI agents posing as callers who would out his drug use on air as he was hallucinating and insane. WNBC would be sold and become WFAN an all sports radio station but Imus was popular enough to survive and still be the morning host. Contrary to the fantasy movie Private Parts where Howard crushes Imus in the ratings and drives him off air. Imus would instead sign a simulcast deal with MSNBC to put his show on television every morning.

At some point Imus marries Deidre who uses his name to write books and run charities. Including his infamous cancer ranch aka 'tax writeoff ranch'. Where little kids come to ride horses while stage four cancers eat away at their insides like a rabid wild dog eats an animal carcass. Stern would rip on Imus's wife and her stupid charities nonstop. After Stern's divorce and marriage to Beth he suddenly never mentioned Imus's wife Deidre again. There was a Stern caller, not Wigward from the Hamptons but someone else but I can't remember his name, who would call into Stern and call him 'Imus' and call Beth 'Deidre' whenever he got on the air. Imus's cancer ranch lost all its backing because of the 'nappy head hoes' controversy and went bankrupt with Imus dumping the property a few years later.

In 2007 Imus would make international news for the whole Nappy Headed Ho's comments. O&A talked about this endlessly. Most of you are probably familiar. Imus would be fired from CBS and MSNBC. He would grovel like a faggot to every nigger community leader for a year straight before being fired. Literally prostrating himself on the floor before Sharpton and Jackson and crying and proclaiming he wasn't a racist. When Imus was fired he had the same issue that O&A did after Sex for Sam 3. His contract didn't allow him to pursue other radio stations unless he was released. His lawyers got him out of the contract and back on radio and television eventually. ABC and Citadel radio signed him and Fox News took him for television.

Some other random stuff. Imus claimed early in his career that his ancestry was 'jewish'. But that he wasn't a practicing jew. Imus used to call Robin Quivvers a nigger to her face and also call a secretary named Brenda a nigger to her face as well. After an interview with Mike Wallace when the microphones were off Imus joked that he hired a black co-host to allow them to make 'nigger jokes'. Imus once had it out with Howard on the air where he said Howard should have been shoved into an oven for being a jew bastard. The callers on Stern began referring to Howard as a hook nosed jew bastard sometimes. That argument was in 1984.....Stern saved the clip and played it on air in 2008 when Imus was trying to get his career back after the 'nappy headed ho' remarks to try to stop people from hiring Imus.

Boner nosed....beanie wearing....jew boy.

If he’s so smart, why is he dead?

 

[RIP-Allen-Lanier]

"those ladies of the night don't have the best hair"