Debbie Schlussel: Question About Last Night's Emmy Awards Show: Where's the FCC?
Just wondering how actresses Calista Flockhart and Helen Mirren and CBS latenight host Craig Ferguson can get away with saying the word "t-t", unbleeped, on live television--you know, one of the seven words you can't say over the conventional broadcast airwaves--without NBC--AND THEM--getting fined by the FCC.
They and other celebs (including the actor who presented with her, who also said "t-t") who uttered various obscenities on live TV, last night, went the way of Janet Jackson at the Superbowl. They got away with it.
Flockhart has a show debuting in the fall on ABC. Will the FCC do a thing to punish her? Not likely. Ditto for Ferguson and his CBS "Late Late Show." And nothing for Mirren, either. Howard Stern does have a point about the FCC picking on him.
Posted by Debbie on August 28, 2006 01:23 PM to Debbie Schlussel