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Monday, September 19, 2011

Alec Baldwin Walks Out Of Emmys

Alec Baldwin pulled out of last night’s Emmy telecast after a joke about News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch was cut from a segment that he had recorded to open the broadcast. Baldwin tweeted “I did a short Emmy pretape a few days ago. Now they tell me NewsCorp may cut the funniest line.” The joke reportedly involved Baldwin on a telephone and saying, “Is that you, Rupert?” a reference to News Corp’s much-publicized phone-hacking scandal. Fox said the network believed it was inappropriate to make light of an issue being taken seriously by the company. After the joke was cut, Baldwin no longer wanted his segment to be part of the broadcast and Fox re-shot the clip with Leonard Nimoy.

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