So many damned hits to the obscure( and mostly useless blog.) 22k hits this month alone.
All those hits have inspired me to rant a bit more about NPR and Nick Kroll, and their fave cancer scammer- Tig "Yeah, yeah it's hormone uh blockers uh," Notaro.
The idea that Grantland would not mark sponsored content for Nick Kroll is unpleasant enough(see below), but when NPR and the Paley Center and LACMA, and other supposed arbiters of culture compromise themselves for such a low brow no talent.... It is a bit much.
If Nick Kroll and Tig Notaro had real appeal to the intelligentsia, then that's a different story. Still unsavory to trade air time for funding from this Billionaire, but if he or she really had even middle brow appeal -- slightly more understandable.
As it stands, NPR's embarrassing shilling of Nick Kroll's talent free wares, and Dim bulb tig notaro's non existent cancer are sort of obscene. .henypire.blogspot.ca/2014/02/the-tig-notaro-cancer-scam
It's not sorta obscene it's super obscene, when you consider that not only is Nick Kroll something that might only appeal to the lowest common denominator, but that his father and brother's businesses have caused incredible human misery, for decades. Misery to those who didn't have the massive funding needed to deal with such Goliaths.There is so much more but this will have to do for today: henypire.blogspot.com/2014/01/review-of-kroll-show.html
Tig "uh yeah it's radiotherapy now" Notaro is proud of the fact she read one book in her whole life. A book about Narcissism, no less. Well, that's what a Stef Willen told me. Stef Willen also told me that Notaro was a "liar" and boy was she right but she was a pathological liar herself so her assessment of honesty isn't worth much.
You can google it yourself( cause I'm tired,) but Kroll "experts" are often featured on NPR...None of this is Kosher. These Kroll "experts" are as shady as it gets. If I were capable of donating to anything it sure wouldn't be to NPR. They have made some soul selling deals that can adversely affect a lot of decent people.
Donations by a Kroll leading to Kroll "experts" getting to lie to the public, and then Donations leading to the shameless shilling for the idiot scion of Jules's Kroll's greed riddled dynasty...Traif, I tell you.Traif means Unkosher in Yiddish, BTW.
Donations leading Ira Glass and Terry Gross to either not question, or be complicit in Tig Notaro and Nick Kroll's awesome cancer scam...
Nick "The checkbook" Kroll really is on his way to impressing his hard to impress father with these schemes and tricks and frauds.
Look, NPR STAFF is on the scene- right in time for the execrable second season of "Kroll Show."
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Kroll Show, a sketch comedy series from the mind of Nick Kroll, came back this month for a second season on Comedy Central.
Kroll is an expert in over-confident idiot characters — not far off from some of the people you see on reality TV.
He's also known for his role as Ruxin on the FX show The League. Kroll thought the character was going to be "one of the most unlikeable guys ever to be on television," but the character is also funny. Kroll tells NPR's Arun Rath that he's also always wanted his own show, and that helps keep him from being pigeon-holed.
"Being able to play a bunch of different characters has given me a break from just playing this one kind of guy. And I'm very lucky that I get to do that," he says.
It's incredibly gratifying to be able to play a wide spectrum of characters, but ones that you can always come back to and learn more about. Like your friends — you have some friends who you hate, and then you're like, "Oh, but they have a terrible mother." ... And I feel that same way about all my characters. You know, you try to find the humanity even in the most mean-spirited people.
On the Wheels Ontario segment, a parody of teen TV drama Degrassi
The idea is that I'm new at a school and everyone at the school's in a wheelchair except for me. ... Part of that is based on the fact that Drake — the recording artist, Drake — got his start as a kid in a wheelchair on Degrassi. It's hard to explain. It's like the drama on Degrassi and translated into Wheels Ontario is ... super high stakes, but the acting and performances — like Canada — are pretty bland. ... Pregnancy, drug abuse, attempted murder, statutory rape, all these things that are hugely important are played with very low-end emotion.
On recurring character Bobby Bottleservice
Bobby Bottleservice started as a character that I did as a way to talk to girls ... He really loves to hit on women, and a lot of women have experienced getting hit on by a guy like Bobby Bottleservice. ...
Soon after I came up with him, Jersey Shore premiered, and it was a very similar kind of guy at that time, a lot of Ed Hardy clothing. And for those of you who don't know what Ed Hardy clothing looks like, it looks like someone splattered rhinestone diarrhea all over a sweatshirt.
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Before 'Jersey Shore' Owned Sleaze, There Was Bobby Bottleservice
6 min 43 sec
Bobby Bottleservice is a recurring character on Nick Kroll's Kroll Show.
Comedy Central/YouTube Mikey tries to fit in on his first day at a new school in this spoof of the Canadian teen TV drama Degrassi.
Kroll is an expert in over-confident idiot characters — not far off from some of the people you see on reality TV.
He's also known for his role as Ruxin on the FX show The League. Kroll thought the character was going to be "one of the most unlikeable guys ever to be on television," but the character is also funny. Kroll tells NPR's Arun Rath that he's also always wanted his own show, and that helps keep him from being pigeon-holed.
"Being able to play a bunch of different characters has given me a break from just playing this one kind of guy. And I'm very lucky that I get to do that," he says.
Interview Highlights
On portraying a variety of charactersIt's incredibly gratifying to be able to play a wide spectrum of characters, but ones that you can always come back to and learn more about. Like your friends — you have some friends who you hate, and then you're like, "Oh, but they have a terrible mother." ... And I feel that same way about all my characters. You know, you try to find the humanity even in the most mean-spirited people.
On the Wheels Ontario segment, a parody of teen TV drama Degrassi
The idea is that I'm new at a school and everyone at the school's in a wheelchair except for me. ... Part of that is based on the fact that Drake — the recording artist, Drake — got his start as a kid in a wheelchair on Degrassi. It's hard to explain. It's like the drama on Degrassi and translated into Wheels Ontario is ... super high stakes, but the acting and performances — like Canada — are pretty bland. ... Pregnancy, drug abuse, attempted murder, statutory rape, all these things that are hugely important are played with very low-end emotion.
On recurring character Bobby Bottleservice
Bobby Bottleservice started as a character that I did as a way to talk to girls ... He really loves to hit on women, and a lot of women have experienced getting hit on by a guy like Bobby Bottleservice. ...
Soon after I came up with him, Jersey Shore premiered, and it was a very similar kind of guy at that time, a lot of Ed Hardy clothing. And for those of you who don't know what Ed Hardy clothing looks like, it looks like someone splattered rhinestone diarrhea all over a sweatshirt.
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Grantland and Nick Kroll
Grantland should learn from The Atlantic
2 upvotes by Ravi Shankar and Jane Doughnut.
Grantland ought to be more transparent with it’s readers.
On February 1st, Grantland published sponsored content for The Kroll Show, a new sketch comedy program from Comedy Central. Sports fans are no stranger to Kroll. He stars in FX’s popular fantasy football sitcom, The League. In addition, Kroll had the good fortune of advertising on Deadspin on the day they broke the Manti T’eo hoax story. Nick Kroll even tweeted “Thx @deadspin” for the millions of impressions Comedy Central received by winning the online display-ad lottery.
At 12:15 PM ET today, Grantland published a sponsored post entitled “Exclusive: Bobby Bottleservice’s Super Bowl Prediction” with a byline from, you guessed it, Bobby Bottleservice.
Bobby Bottleservice is a fictional character, created by Kroll, who resembles The Situation from MTV’s Jersey Shore crossed with an LA vodka promoter.
The article features a series of text messages emulating the popular format created by Texts from Last Night. It begins and ends with a link to The Kroll Show’s Comedy Central page. There is no mention that this article is an advertisement or sponsored content. The reader is provided no context or guidance.
Up to this point, Grantland’s advertising strategy centered on sponsorships and partnerships, such as Blue Moon sponsoring 30 for 30 documentary shorts and homepage display advertisements from brands like Subway and Dove: For Men.
Grantland has generally stayed away from sponsored posts. Its only exception was a sponsored post roughly a year ago for HBO’s comedy Eastbound and Down.
In an interview with Ad Age on January 10, 2013, Eric Johnson, Executive VP of Multimedia Sales at ESPN, explained Grantland’s ad sales philosophy:
The Kroll Show advertisement is not part of a broader Comedy Central sponsorship of Grantland’s Super Bowl coverage. This is a one-off “native ad” unit hosted under Grantland’s secondary Hollywood Prospectus blog.
Sponsored and sponsor content are under intense scrutiny as more publishers — ranging from The Atlantic to BuzzFeed — experiment with reinventing the advertorial as an alternative to display advertising. After a botched sponsored post for The Church of Scientology, The Atlantic issued a series of guidelines for future sponsored posts emphasizing transparency, integrity and consistency. The Atlantic stated that they would no longer publish a post that would violate a reader’s trust or undermine the editorial voice of the publication.
Online publishers are yet to find a way to smoothly integrate sponsored stories into their regular content cycle. In print, advertorials always look different immediately, even to the untrained eye. The layout, font, and style are all immediately different. This signals “advertising” to the reader much more clearly than a brief disclaiming sentence in italics at the beginning and end of a post.
Grantland should learn from The Atlantic by increasing their commitment to transparency. Bobby Bottleservice’s Super Bowl picks feel natural on Grantland, which has also emerged as a venue for comedians similar to Kroll, such as Humblebrag’s Harris Wittels and Louis CK.
Wittels and CK’s contributions to Grantland are bylined by their actual names, not by fictional characters. Any links to their work outside of ESPN are hyperlinked in their biographies. This is not the case with Nick Kroll’s post.
Kroll’s content is designed to nudge the reader to visit http://ComedyCentral.com. This is evident by the two hyperlinks to Comedy Central: a link in the introductory paragraph connected to Bobby Bottleservice and a link at the end connected to Kroll Show. Grantland never includes advertising links in an introductory paragraph. This feels foreign to the site.
In addition to driving clicks, these hyperlinks are designed to assist Comedy Central’s SEO strategy for the phrases “Bobby Bottleservice” and “Kroll Show” by drafting on Grantland’s large audience and social following.
A substantial percentage of Grantland readers probably share many demographic traits with Kroll Show viewers, and it goes without saying that Grantland should capitalize on their audience by selling advertising in order to pay for talented writers and editors. Yet, Grantland should not take its readers for granted. If Grantland is going to continue to publish original content advertising a product or TV show, the publisher should more clearly mark this content as sponsored.
There is a simple fix. Replace “exclusive” in the title with “sponsored” and take a cue from print: adjust the formatting so that this looks like advertising. The use of “exclusive” is an attempt to grab attention for an advertisement, like a banner that whizzes and flashes. The only problem is that it too closely resembles journalism, diminishing the impact of any future “exclusive” breaking news on the site.
If Grantland’s copy writers fear that this simple change will dilute the efficacy of their sponsored post, then they misunderstand the point of sponsored content to begin with.
On February 1st, Grantland published sponsored content for The Kroll Show, a new sketch comedy program from Comedy Central. Sports fans are no stranger to Kroll. He stars in FX’s popular fantasy football sitcom, The League. In addition, Kroll had the good fortune of advertising on Deadspin on the day they broke the Manti T’eo hoax story. Nick Kroll even tweeted “Thx @deadspin” for the millions of impressions Comedy Central received by winning the online display-ad lottery.
At 12:15 PM ET today, Grantland published a sponsored post entitled “Exclusive: Bobby Bottleservice’s Super Bowl Prediction” with a byline from, you guessed it, Bobby Bottleservice.
Bobby Bottleservice is a fictional character, created by Kroll, who resembles The Situation from MTV’s Jersey Shore crossed with an LA vodka promoter.
The article features a series of text messages emulating the popular format created by Texts from Last Night. It begins and ends with a link to The Kroll Show’s Comedy Central page. There is no mention that this article is an advertisement or sponsored content. The reader is provided no context or guidance.
Up to this point, Grantland’s advertising strategy centered on sponsorships and partnerships, such as Blue Moon sponsoring 30 for 30 documentary shorts and homepage display advertisements from brands like Subway and Dove: For Men.
Grantland has generally stayed away from sponsored posts. Its only exception was a sponsored post roughly a year ago for HBO’s comedy Eastbound and Down.
In an interview with Ad Age on January 10, 2013, Eric Johnson, Executive VP of Multimedia Sales at ESPN, explained Grantland’s ad sales philosophy:
We started with presenting sponsors, such as Subway, that have a customized integration into the site. Now we’re looking at selling flighted sponsorships around events, so you might see us sell one around the Super Bowl or the NBA Draft. We don’t have the desire to just sell display rotational ads. They don’t fill a need and it’s more profitable this way.
The Kroll Show advertisement is not part of a broader Comedy Central sponsorship of Grantland’s Super Bowl coverage. This is a one-off “native ad” unit hosted under Grantland’s secondary Hollywood Prospectus blog.
Sponsored and sponsor content are under intense scrutiny as more publishers — ranging from The Atlantic to BuzzFeed — experiment with reinventing the advertorial as an alternative to display advertising. After a botched sponsored post for The Church of Scientology, The Atlantic issued a series of guidelines for future sponsored posts emphasizing transparency, integrity and consistency. The Atlantic stated that they would no longer publish a post that would violate a reader’s trust or undermine the editorial voice of the publication.
Online publishers are yet to find a way to smoothly integrate sponsored stories into their regular content cycle. In print, advertorials always look different immediately, even to the untrained eye. The layout, font, and style are all immediately different. This signals “advertising” to the reader much more clearly than a brief disclaiming sentence in italics at the beginning and end of a post.
Grantland should learn from The Atlantic by increasing their commitment to transparency. Bobby Bottleservice’s Super Bowl picks feel natural on Grantland, which has also emerged as a venue for comedians similar to Kroll, such as Humblebrag’s Harris Wittels and Louis CK.
Wittels and CK’s contributions to Grantland are bylined by their actual names, not by fictional characters. Any links to their work outside of ESPN are hyperlinked in their biographies. This is not the case with Nick Kroll’s post.
Kroll’s content is designed to nudge the reader to visit http://ComedyCentral.com. This is evident by the two hyperlinks to Comedy Central: a link in the introductory paragraph connected to Bobby Bottleservice and a link at the end connected to Kroll Show. Grantland never includes advertising links in an introductory paragraph. This feels foreign to the site.
In addition to driving clicks, these hyperlinks are designed to assist Comedy Central’s SEO strategy for the phrases “Bobby Bottleservice” and “Kroll Show” by drafting on Grantland’s large audience and social following.
A substantial percentage of Grantland readers probably share many demographic traits with Kroll Show viewers, and it goes without saying that Grantland should capitalize on their audience by selling advertising in order to pay for talented writers and editors. Yet, Grantland should not take its readers for granted. If Grantland is going to continue to publish original content advertising a product or TV show, the publisher should more clearly mark this content as sponsored.
There is a simple fix. Replace “exclusive” in the title with “sponsored” and take a cue from print: adjust the formatting so that this looks like advertising. The use of “exclusive” is an attempt to grab attention for an advertisement, like a banner that whizzes and flashes. The only problem is that it too closely resembles journalism, diminishing the impact of any future “exclusive” breaking news on the site.
If Grantland’s copy writers fear that this simple change will dilute the efficacy of their sponsored post, then they misunderstand the point of sponsored content to begin with.
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