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Were they too funny for "Saturday Night Live?" The late night NBC show, run by Lorne Michaels, reportedly fired Adam Sandler and Chris Farley, two of the biggest stars ever to graduate from the sketch comedy series. In an appearance on last year's "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien," Sandler said, "I did get fired also. Back in the day," the New York Post reported. "Nobody wanted to tell me the truth that I was getting fired. All of a sudden Farley ran into my office and is like, 'We're getting fired!' Me and him got fired. That's when my manager at the time came up with, 'NBC: Nothing But C****!" Both guys of course went on to become A-list film comedy stars, while "SNL" is a shell of its former self. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) See the Full Story at The Daily Beast
In the wake of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that triggered a massive tsunami, wreaking havoc on the coastal cities of Japan with an estimated death toll of 10,000, comedian Gilbert Gottfried, best known for his wildly obnoxious voice, decided to offer up this joke on Twitter: "Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them," Gottfried wrote in one tweet, which has since been removed. The diminutive comedian was subsequently fired as the voice of the duck in commercials for Aflac, an insurance company that just so happens to do 75 percent of its business in Japan. Gottfried has since apologized. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes) See the Full Story at The Daily Beast
Before the Charlie Sheen saga really went into overdrive, the troubled actor went on Alex Jones' radio show in late February, where he blasted Chuck Lorre, the creator of Sheen's hit CBS TV sitcom, "Two and a Half Men." Sheen called Lorre a "clown," referred to him as "Chaim Levine"—joking about Lorre's religion—and, the day before Sheen was fired from Two and a Half Men, he sent out a gem of a tweet that read: "fastball. the trolls are foaming from their toothless holes. rumor mill abundant with evil gossip. mainstream heretics smirking." Sheen has since filed a $100 million lawsuit against Warner Bros. and Lorre for firing him from the sitcom. ((AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) See the Full Story at The Daily Beast
Were they too funny for "Saturday Night Live?" The late night NBC show, run by Lorne Michaels, reportedly fired Adam Sandler and Chris Farley, two of the biggest stars ever to graduate from the sketch comedy series. In an appearance on last year's "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien," Sandler said, "I did get fired also. Back in the day," the New York Post reported. "Nobody wanted to tell me the truth that I was getting fired. All of a sudden Farley ran into my office and is like, 'We're getting fired!' Me and him got fired. That's when my manager at the time came up with, 'NBC: Nothing But C****!" Both guys of course went on to become A-list film comedy stars, while "SNL" is a shell of its former self. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) See the Full Story at The Daily Beast
Wyclef Jean, if you're reading this, cover your eyes now. DJ Cipha Sounds, who hosts a show on the New York City radio station Hot 97, was suspended after he made a few highly insensitive remarks last year about the HIV epidemic in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Sounds, whose real name is Luis Diaz, sparked public outrage when he said he is HIV negative because he doesn't "mess with Haitian girls," NY1 reported. Community leaders and elected officials protested outside the Hot 97 studios calling for his firing. Eventually, Sounds was pulled off the air and forced to undergo sensitivity training focused on the Haitian community. (Photo by Scott Gries/Getty Images) See the Full Story at The Daily Beast
Before the whole Charlie Sheen fiasco, CBS President and CEO Les Moonves had a whole other headache to deal with. After the Rutgers University women's basketball team made a surprise run deep in the 2007 NCAA tournament, CBS Radio host Don Imus cracked some tasteless jokes about the women, referring to them as "nappy-headed hos." The comments incited several protests, with the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson meeting with Moonves to personally advocate for Imus' removal. Imus was first suspended from his radio program for two weeks without pay, and then he was fired, despite the program being worth an estimated $15 million in annual revenue to CBS, which owned Imus' home radio station, WFAN-AM in New York, and syndicated his shows across the country through Westwood One. Jackson called Imus' firing "a victory for public decency. No one should use the public airwaves to transmit racial or sexual degradation." (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) See the Full Story at The Daily Beast
Before he escaped to the unregulated arena of satellite radio, shock jock Howard Stern was a rising star in radio on WNBC. Still, he repeatedly ran afoul of management due to his risqué segments. The station eventually tasked program director Kevin Metheny with closely monitoring Stern and cutting him off the air if the material got too offensive (the entire saga is hilariously depicted in Stern's 1997 biopic, "Private Parts"). In 1985, despite claiming the highest ratings at WNBC in four years, Stern and his sidekick, Robin Quivers, were fired for what management said was "conceptual differences," according to New York magazine. Stern, meanwhile, claimed that Thornton Bradshaw, chairman of WNBC owner RCA, tuned into a particularly nasty "Dial-a-Date" segment, which had aired 10 days earlier, and ordered him to be fired. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) See the Full Story at The Daily Beast
