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Racist segment at USC forces Fox to deep-six â??sophomoricâ?? show
Racist segment at USC forces Fox to deep-six â??sophomoricâ?? show
Here's "investigative reporter" Bob Oschack on Saturday, soliciting an "All-American welcome" to new Pac-12 members [Colorado]e|buffaloes and Utah from an all-Asian cast on USC 's campus:
Aaaaand here's Fox Sports on Wednesday, announcing the show on which the segment aired has been canceled :
In fact, Mssr. Oschack is a comedian whose previous credits include writing for Dennis Miller's show on CNBC and Comedy Central Presents as well as starring in an obscure 2001 film, "Sharkman," which currently carries a rating of 2.2 stars out of 10 on the Internet Movie Database. During its brief existence, "The College Experiment" was a weekly Friday night offering on Fox's 18-to-39-year-old-male-oriented cable channel, Fuel, promising a "comedy-driven, weekly cocktail of hot co-eds, non-stop partying, sophomoric humor, and a dash of college sports." Odds are this is the first time you're hearing of it, and the last. If only it had risen to the level of sophomorism...
Now, if Fox is looking for an actually entertaining way to involve international students in a football segment without overtly mocking their unfamiliarity with the culture, maybe they should send a camera crew to Rice :
Admittedly, that's not comedy gold like "What should I say, welcome?" But then, Bob Oschack isn't exactly the "Asians in the Library" girl , either, so we all have to take what we can get.
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