Brian O’Halloran dropped us an e-mail to let us know when he’ll be popping up on various radio shows this Tuesday (May 30). Get those tape decks ready!
- BRIAN O’HALLORAN–TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2000
(7:30-10:30A.M./ET)
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Brian O’Halloran dropped us an e-mail to let us know when he’ll be popping up on various radio shows this Tuesday (May 30). Get those tape decks ready!
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In it, Dante, the convenience-store clerk, and Randal, the video-store clerk, discuss watching Flintsone’s List, the ”latest opus from Steven Spielberg, who combined his nose for commercial prospects with his integrity as a chronicler of the Holocaust.” The bit features Flinstone-like men being herded onto a train car, which, of course, is foot-powered. It may have been a laugh for some people, but it was too much for ABC. ”We didn’t think it would get on, but we animated it anyway,” says Smith, who has been critical of ABC for burying his show.
In fact, the scene was too much for NBC, too. Clerks co-writer Dave Mandel came up with the joke years ago when he worked as a writer at Saturday Night Live for the night John Goodman, Fred in the 1994 live-action film, was hosting. Not only couldn’t you make a Holocaust joke on TV, Mandel was told, but it was too expensive to build thetrain.