Brad Garrett, he of the nationally-viewed prostate exam and Till Death star, dropped by Fox & Friends after-the-hours show (which only airs online) and got deep into it with the The 'Dooce, in what is perhaps the most awkward ten minutes of Fox programming ever:
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It was only an amount of time until America's obsession with B-list celebs reduced the country to watching 'Til Death star Brad Garrett receive a prostate exam on national television. It's for a good cause though, as the high-def visage of Garrett's winking brown eye is part of the star-studded Stand Up To Cancer event airing tomorrow on multiple channels. Producers hope Garrett can do for prostate exams what Katie Couric did for the colonoscopy, besides change the channel in disgust.
Still…there has to be at least several bigger names that were willing to bend over for the camera. Though now that David Duchovny is in rehab and Richard Gere is rape-kissing his way through the East, producers were probably torn between Garrett and 12 Pack from I Love Money.
We've never been one to get excited about spin-offs, because they're usually less Fraiser and more Joey. And, you know what? Even when they are Frasier, we're still not excited — especially when forced to watch Kelsey Grammer shoot sex-themed scripts.
And we're not changing our attitude for Brad Garrett's much talked about Everybody Loves Raymond off-shoot, which still isn't finalized but could very well appear as early as next fall.
Garrett began talking up the potential spin-off at Sunday night's Emmys, which of course got the ball rolling for writer Jacques Steinberg to write this "it could happen, but then again, maybe not" item.
An executive at HBO, which is a producer of "Raymond," said that Mr. Garrett's characterization of the negotiations was accurate and that Phil Rosenthal, co-creator and executive producer of "Raymond," had set a rough deadline of about a week for the parties to reach agreement. The executive would speak only on condition of anonymity, given the sensitivity of the conversations.
Yes, the sensitivity level is right up there WMDs and oil for food schemes.
