Life of a TV Executive w/Doug Herzog

Roy's Job Fair

Comedy Central

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Is it better to resign or be fired? The former president of Viacom Music and Entertainment Group, Doug Herzog (host of the podcast 'Basic, When Cable Was Cool'), breaks down his experiences on both sides of that coin and how to preserve your reputation no matter which you decide. An architect of pop culture, Herzog also opens up about his early days at CNN & MTV before the rise of cable, his transition from Comedy Central, and what he sees as the future of television. The team digs into whether there's an ounce of legitimacy to award shows and how to say "No" to people on your team without hurting their feelings. In SCAM OF THE WEEK, Doug shares the story of how an assistant can scam your corporate card, and @Rod4Short pitches a sitcom reboot and circles back to two of his favorite topics - dogs and Roy building a luxury car by hand.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast, the weekly show.
0:06.1	It's going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting. You'll be saying to yourself,
0:13.0	TGID. Thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully
0:19.5	obsess you in the same way that they
0:21.1	obsessed me the election economics earnings calls what are they talking about on these earnings calls
0:29.7	we're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches and i know that I listed that fourth,
0:39.1	but in importance, it's probably second.
0:43.0	I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go,
0:46.5	but how many of them come out on Thursday?
0:50.3	I mean, talk about innovative.
0:53.9	Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast.
1:00.7	You're listening to Comedy Central.
1:04.2	Now this one hurts, yo.
1:06.0	This one hurts.
1:07.3	Now firing.
1:10.0	The Bodega Boys comedy duo,ezes and merrill have officially gone their
1:16.7	separate ways and their late night talk show on showtime deezes and meryl will not be
1:22.5	returning for a fifth season his finalos. Final episode already aired.
1:28.9	Boo.
1:30.5	I hate it for those brothers because, you know, they've always had a lot of chemistry
1:34.9	and they started their thing from scratch.
1:38.8	Yeah, total scratch.
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