NSFW – Fatback Media

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By now I’m sure you have all seen the opening montage skit featuring Conan O’Brien that aired at last Sunday’s 2006 Emmy Awards. Apparently, the skit which showed a spoof of ABC’s LOST (and other popular shows) including a dramatized plane crash, was seen to be in poor taste because the pre-recorded tape aired just hours after a real airplane crashed in Kentucky, killing 49 people.

The backlash from citizens and the media has been amazing. Mainstream websites have posted their outrage and even some unexpected voices have been heard. Sadaam Hussein is quoted as saying, “I thought Conan O’Brien was a pedophile. Wasn’t he on Dateline? I’m hungry.” Jon Benet’s alleged killer John Mark Karr reportedly wrote a scathing letter to NBC stating his disgust that they would air a skit about an airplane crashing so soon after his extradition from Thailand on an similar airplane. He also confessed to that he was the Zodiac killer and that it was about to be “open season on the pigs”.

NBC executives apologized Monday for the Emmy Awards opening skit that showed host Conan O’Brien surviving a plane crash and aired the same day a real crash in Kentucky killed 49 people.

“Our hearts and prayers go out to the many families who lost loved ones in the plane crash in Kentucky on Sunday, and to the entire community that has suffered this terrible loss,” NBC said in a statement Monday, according to the Associated Press.

“In no way would we ever want to make light of this terrible tragedy,” the statement continued. “The filmed opening during the Emmy telecast was meant to spoof some of television’s most well-known scenes. The timing was unfortunate, and we regret any unintentional pain it may have caused.” (source)

NBC went on to say that they were announcing that all NBC executives would now carry the suffix “Pussy” in their titles. “I think it’s a bold move, especially in this climate of political upheaval”, said Bob Wright, Chief Executive Pussy for NBC Universal. Newly appointed Chief Financial Pussy Lynn Calpeter, responded with, ” I wasn’t sure how I, as a career driven woman, would feel bearing the moniker ‘pussy’, but, I kinda like it”. Jeff Zucker, the Chief Executive Pussy for NBC Universal Television was pleased as well, “Normally they just called me a pussy. Now I tell the neighborhood kids that they’re addressing the Chief Executive Pussy, thank you very much.” The other pussies at NBC could be reached for comment.

(ed. note: Before you send you high falootin’ city lawyers my way, remember that this is a humor site. But you’re still a pussy.)