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UPFRONTS 2013: The Overachievers 
You be the judge: I’m told this promo is supposed to air April 3rd before the return of NBC’s My Name is Earl. In it, Jeff Zucker offers not just a recap of the show’s fall season but also some zingers about issues left over from the writers’ strike. Worse, it shows him leering at Alyssa Milano’s boobage and signing off as “JZ out…”. I wish this were a hoax — but it’s real. At what point did NBC’s “Must-See TV” degrade into ”JZ TV”? UPDATE: 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 fucking hilarious.” Well, I bet it never airs:
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.
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Good God. Is there some sort of “Biggest Asshole in Hollywood” contest that Zucker’s trying to win?
Mother…….Fucker. Oh Wait I’m a screenwriter…Mother (Beat) Fucker.
when are they going to get rid of this guy — does he have some awful dirt on the powers that be?
nbc is the garbage can of tv — can’t recall the last time we watched nbc — it’s really a shame
OMG, this is really embarrassing
Also, Earl is such an annoying awful show
Zucker indeed looks like a dick. But to me it comes off like that was written by Earl writers, and they’re the ones feeding Zucker the strike jokes.
If not, well, fuck JZ.
Either way it’s a bit of a misfire.
Way to rub it in, pal.
Joe Gillis,
How much money woud you pay to see a steel-cage match between Zucker and Toby Emmerich?
Hey, What is wrong with Jeff Zucker, First he tries to be all cool with the audience, then he makes like 2-5 jabs at the writers who are back from their strike, I’m thinking the Reality Show “Biggest A-hole in Hollywood” has found its winner.
Hell hath no fury like a short bald guy.
“JZ out” – If only that were true, Jeff; if only that were true…
Zucker’s got one hot assistant.
I think the real coup is the writers getting JZ to actually say those things. The e insurance ad revenue reminder was pure genius. “Wait, we do make money here?”
The general public doesn’t understand those jabs… but we do. I hope the SAG Negotiating Committee sees this and remembers that the studios are not our friends. They categorize the people who work their butts off to create their shows as “unavoidable inconveniences” – definitely not creative partners. Govern yourselves accordingly, SAG. What a schmuck!
Everyone in town knows this guy’s a putz and with NBC in fourth he probably figures he can’t do much more damage than he already has. I maintain that he has seriously embarrassing pictures of Jeff Immelt stashed away somewhere, how else would he fail upward?
anyone thinking any kind of audience will not zap away within .0002 seconds of this wankfest starting is kidding themselves. jz has the appeal of a snoring monkey.
At least he can’t get residuals for it!
Peggy Lane O’Rourke
You know…I started watching thinking it’d be horrible. But honestly, that was pretty funny. Kudos to the writers that actually got Zuck to say some of that stuff.
Please, Nikki, tell me that by having me watch that you have just punk’d me….
This guy is the Reverend Wright of television. Just when the AMPTP (those fuckers, oh that felt goooood to remember how shitty they really are. Remember how much of a dick Nick Counter is?) and the networks felt they may, just may be turning the corner on labor strife, a little shit like this opens his mouth and embarrasses them all.
That “especially in the first 17 days” line is such a MASSIVE pissing in the mouths of the WGA members that will not be forgotten in, say three years time…..
… and now that I think about it, if WGA actually members wrote this shit, what in the name of god were they thinking? Did they think this would be met with smiles by other members and the below-the-liners who lost their jobs and houses?
After all we’ve endure, for our own members to write somthing like his..
I am appalled.
He reminds me of the unfunny arrogant bore that Conan O’Brien has become. That clip is almost as bad as this comment which is almost as bad as My Name is Earl.
Being a member of SAG does not mean much in Chicago, so I was wondering if I shrunk a few inches if I could be the short bald CEO of a network.
PS, Earl is a good show.
…and he called the old girlfriend with pink hair craaazzy?! hope SAG people saw this; shows how “crazy” some of the “management” is….not to mention arrogant!
I thought it was funny. If the writers don’t like him it’s pretty easy to create a few characters named “jz” who are short, bald and hormonal that get squashed in a few episodes of NBC shows. I’d give some examples but I don’t watch NBC so I’m not familiar with their shows. I sorta watch “Earl”. Thanks for the catch up. I was watching “30 Rock” but Tina Fey’s suck up to Hillary killed that show for me especially after I was Hearting her for her support of the Strike in NYC.
Obviously JZ didn’t write that himself. Gee. Who could have written that copy for him. Wait a minute. I know! MY NAME IS EARL WRITERS. Huh. Kind of funny when you think about it.