[BC] Gotta be "funny" ... no matter what.

[Reader]

Barry,

Perhaps Conan O'Brien should join Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise on the 
Group W bench.

Tom

Emmys plane-crash spoof left LEX 18 manager 'horrified'
By 
<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/entertainment/television/15378425.htm?source=rss&channel=kentucky_television>Jamie 
Gumbrecht
HERALD-LEADER

LEX 18 News ended an evening recap of yesterday's coverage of the 
Comair Flight 5191 crash for the live broadcast of the prime-time 
Emmy Awards. The annual TV awards show opened with shots of host 
Conan O'Brien bouncing inside a plane before it crashed on an island 
in a spoof of ABC's hit show Lost.

WLEX president and general manager Tim Gilbert, who was home watching 
the telecast with his family, said he was "stunned" by the 
introduction; if station managers had known about the intro before 
the broadcast, Lexington viewers wouldn't have seen it, he said.

"It was a live telecast -- we were completely helpless," Gilbert said 
of the Emmys. "By the time we began to react, it was over. At the 
station, we were as horrified as they were at home."

He said he'll complain to NBC, but he said an apology won't make up 
for insensitivity.

"They could have killed the opening and it wouldn't have hurt the 
show at all," Gilbert said. "We wish somebody had thought this 
through. It's somewhere between ignorance and incompetence."