What 'O&J' Really Needed Wasn't the Stengels, but Some ADHD Nobody with a Quirky Vine or YouTube Account
2 2015-06-03 by dehydrationstation
Some of the best years of Opie & Anthony came by having an entirely socially maladjusted, but creative and enthusiastic producer like Steve C.
I don't think Steve (bless his soul) gets half the credit he deserves.
Rather than hire a pair of rich-boy mooks from the quickly-retreating hey-day of late-night television, the show should have embraced what seems to be the obvious future of edgy comedy, by picking some creative, quirky Internet auteur with a Vine channel full of insanity.
One Will Sasso, for example, would have been worth approximately three and a half dozen Stengels.
11 comments
1 Scorpy81 2015-06-03
Will Sasso? I think he's a bit too big for this show, and he's not that big anymore.
1 dehydrationstation 2015-06-03
Just picking a well-known example. Will's not a perfect fit, either.
1 LemonQuarks 2015-06-03
Steve C. (peace be upon him) was great.
2 FrunkisOA 2015-06-03
When they were talking about him after he died, and said how he tried to take it to the edge with bits and shit during the breaks, really made me miss him. His production really made the first few years of XM...
1 melexmaster 2015-06-03
well said
1 Patmcpsu 2015-06-03
Now that you mention it, Ry Doon would be a perfect fit. He's a vine star who is quirky but clean; tits would probably love him.
1 dehydrationstation 2015-06-03
He also loves the homeless, apparently.
-1 Crusin_Colin 2015-06-03
Yeah... No, they already have the king of viral Gregg Opie Hughes in studio. But in all seriousness you equating being able to make a 7 second funny video to being a good radio producer is sort of retarded. Also, people listen to "gold era" O&A through rose tinted hearing aids. During the gold era they had bits like rock scream Tuesday, wake up your spouse Wednesday and other hack shit. It's just that the gold got on YouTube and the hack shit faded into Bolivian.
1 LemonQuarks 2015-06-03
...into Bolivian?
1 Crusin_Colin 2015-06-03
Mike Tyson reference
1 LemonQuarks 2015-06-03
nice :)