You Can't Air That

Download or read book You Can't Air That written by David S. Silverman and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour from the sixties, the author analyzes the split between the comic team and CBS over remarks they made on the Vietnam War and religion. He also examines The Richard Pryor Show of the seventies, which raised strong questions about network meddling over racial issues. Among recent personalities he discusses activist Michael Moore, whose frank political views wreaked havoc for NBC and Fox in the mid-nineties, and Bill Maher whose candid thoughts on 9/11 led ABC to terminate Politically Incorrect.