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Director:

Maxi Cohen

Writers:

Greg Daniels (writer) (1987-1988)
Billy Kimball (writer) (1987-1988)
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Release Date:

11 December 1987 (USA) more

Genre:

Comedy | News

Plot:

Short lived (less than a month) show featuring serious and total ridiculous news stories.

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Cast

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Phil Cowan ... Host
Paul Robins ... Host
Nancy Collins ... Serious interviewer
Greg Jackson ... Serious interviewer
Wayne Satz ... Tongue-in-cheek interviewer
Paul Krassner ... Satirical commentator
Jack LaLanne ... Health and science editor
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Additional Details

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color


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Skewered for it's crassness..., 23 August 2005
Author: Micheaux from Stone Mountain, GA

It was almost impossible to have seen this show in it's very short run. While featuring some names of note, (Paul Krassner had written for Crawdaddy magazine), the tone of the humor was rather cruel and condescending. It was as if the network had felt that accentuating the mean streak in David Letterman's humor, they could appeal to the same demographic. While there are the occasional replacement shows that go on to strike it big, such as "NewsRadio", this sank and sank fast.

This show was disliked so, it had Steve Allen comment at a celebrity party, "If a bomb hit this room, the folks at the "Wilton North Report" could all find work."

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