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Inside Edition Finds Someone to Look Down On

Hamilton Nolan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:58:23 EST

Peter Braunstein is a convicted rapist and certified psycho with serious mental problems. But he's so tabloid-y! What's his latest crazy celebrity obsession, for the public to point and laugh about? Inside Edition knows!

America's tabloid television programs are the only thing that stand between our nation and total forgetfulness of past momentary tabloid sensations.

Braunstein: "Everyone sees a lot of me in the ‘Joker' character here. It's kind of a running joke, like, ‘that guy's a lot like you.'"

Once we put criminals in cages, it makes it all the more entertaining to tease out the manifestations of their mental illness, for laffs!

Braunstein: "Monday nights, it's like sacred, man. Everybody in the cell block knows that. Nobody talks to me when Gossip Girl is on.

Watch and be amazed as Peter Braunstein confirms that he is still a ruined post-traumatic victim of the celebrity-media-complex wars!

Braunstein: "Even though [Blair Waldorf is] scheming and has a thing about power, she's loyal. She's everything that I wanted in a girl."

Thank god the media's purged itself of the cancer of immorality. Watch the promo clip on InsideEdition.com now!

Bill O'Reilly and Co. Investigate the Nintendo Craze

Hamilton Nolan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:18:02 EDT

In 1988, a young Bill O'Reilly and his Inside Edition team tried to answer the question: "What the hey is this 'Mario Brothers' craze sweeping the nation?" They failed, of course. Entertainingly!

See how many of the following classic moments you can spot in this clip:

"All I can think of is the guy in the library."

Ron Leingang, "Game-Play Counselor"

Howard Phillips, "Fun Club President"

"I had trouble with Lincoln Logs! (Sigh). Kids and fantasy."

[via Mental Floss]

Inside Edition 'Uncovers' Sexy Peter Cook Picture In Secret Database Called 'Internet'

Richard Lawson — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:22:00 EDT

Everything that's old is new again in the gossip world today. Inside Edition is claiming to have "uncovered" something that we posted about two years ago. As we're all painfully and forcibly aware, beachy keen supermodel Christie Brinkley is divorcing her beefy cad of a husband, Peter Cook. Cook is a certified creep who had an affair with a 15-year-old toy store employee and "privately, secretly" masturbated on web cameras, but he was also kind of a hunk back in the day! In 1981 he posed in an itty bitty bathing costume on the cover of GQ and damned if he didn't look good. Now the ever-desperate for scoops Inside Edition, in a press release, is claiming to have unearthed the revealing cover. Except, um, it's not new!

People like us posted the picture two years ago. Hmpf. We don't get no respect. Maybe it's a different cover altogether? Or maybe some old person at the Inside Edition offices was making their first tentative bumblings onto the internet and did an image search for "peter cook," hoping to find photos of the guy who played Prentiss in A Dandy in Aspic, but found the Speedo shot instead. That's sort of uncovering something, albeit in a small, personal, and vaguely sad way. Whatever the explanation, it's a great excuse to run the picture again. [via Queerty]

Bill O'Reilly Meltdown Resurfaces

Ryan Tate — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:39:11 EDT

Yeah, you already knew Fox News host Bill O'Reilly could be a volcanic asshole on camera, because he explodes at people all the time. But it's still fun to watch O'Reilly thoroughly lose his shit in this old clip from his Inside Edition days, which resurfaced on the Web tonight. You have to feel for whatever poor soul wrote the script for O'Reilly's teleprompter. Video — including the exclamation "Fuck it! Do it live!" — after the jump.

[YouTube via David Seaman]

Defamer Debuts 'Dirt Sandwich', Your Weekly Romp Through Trashy Tabloid TV

Mark Graham — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:12:09 EST

There once was a land — a magical land — where a squarejawed titan named John Tesh and a leggy vixen named Mary Hart reigned supreme. Together, they blazed a pioneering trail in which the worlds of journalism and entertainment converged into 30 minutes of televised bliss each and every weeknight. But much like other creations that were born of the purest intentions (think: The Coreys, Britney Spears and Napster), copycat competitors soon entered the fray and everything quickly turned to shit.

Today, the state of celebrity infotainment is at a crossroads, a crossroads at which the likes of Harvey Levin, Billy Bush and Mark McGrath are honored as the Father, Son and Unholy Ghost of the genre. As new celeb-centric shows spring up with greater regularity than lesions on Paris Hilton's nether regions, we here at Defamer are proud to present a new weekly video feature that we are calling Dirt Sandwich. Culled together by Intrepid Defamer Videographer™ Molly McAleer, each episode will place an unforgiving spotlight on the week's lowest and highest moments (which, as you'll soon discover, are often one and the same). Enjoy!

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The Restaurant Rat Parade

Joshua Stein — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:55:28 EDT

As was much anticipated, "Inside Edition" aired their Rat Patrol segment yesterday. Did Eddie Hayes' work on behalf of Da Silvano pay off? Pretty much. In fact, every restaurant with rats shown here gets tons of response time—is Inside Edition more afraid of lawyers than of vermin?

What's on Steve Jurvetson's desk

Chris Mohney — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:40:24 EST

On the occasion of his 40th birthday, DFJ's Steve Jurvetson gives an annotated Flickr tour of his desk space. Not quite as detailed as the Kevin Rose version, but he's got Bill Clinton in the mix.