ESPN's Dana Jacobson Drunk Video

it's a roast people, the most vile and inappropriate things are common place in such events and it's complete bullshit that she got singled out. get a grip.

For the record, she said F to all those things; Notre Dame, Touchdown Jesus, and just Jesus. As mentioned before this was a Roast, not on television but a private ESPN function. As such, it should be dealt with as such. These remarks were not made on air but simply amongst fellow ESPN employees in a work function-type environment. If said comments had been made on-air, no doubt that is a fireable offense. Having been made in the setting it was leaves it up to the individual company's (in this case ESPN) policies/opinion. I happen to feel the punishment was adequate, especially considering the nature of it being a roast.

That being said, has anybody stumbled across the video so as to have something solid to base all your opinions on?

Drunken Fiasco wrote:

That being said, has anybody stumbled across the video so as to have something solid to base all your opinions on?

Since when do facts get in the say of letsrun commentary?I'd rather just continue with my rambling diatribes wihtout being hindered by the facts.

I would have laughed if I was there.

Actually I just did laugh.

insurance83 wrote:

I would have laughed if I was there.

Actually I just did laugh.

Lots of people laugh at racist and bigoted jokes, but does that make them right?

In fact, I had a redneck co-worker of mine make a very racist joke just this morning. It made me uncomfortable.

it's a roast

far worse things are said on tv during the comedy central roasts, heck they make fun of jews all the time. Roasts are funny because people get made fun of for stupid things like schools or religion. It's all light hearted and to think that she should be treated differently is stupid. Andy Dick consistently goes on comedy central roasts probably coked up and says far worse stuff. But guess what it's said to be funny not to be offensive.

Fired because she used the F word or because she used the F word to insult a fairy tale character?

The problem is that I trademarked the phrase "F Jesus". Pay up, ESPN.

She and Joe Namath should totally go out drinking with a Camera and do sidelines for the Super Bowl.

mitss wrote:

it's a roast people, the most vile and inappropriate things are common place in such events and it's complete bullshit that she got singled out. get a grip.

THANK YOU... a voice of reason. There's no way she should be fired - or even suspended - in my opinion. Now, if ESPN wants to make a subsequent policy that no employee should participate in a roast, I'm OK with that.

She's being scapegoated.

Not entirely true. You must agree that there should be things that are not appropriate to say in public. She should be suspended.

What if I was at a roast and was making fun of JFK jr. (i realize he is deceased) and said your dad deserved to get his f-ing brains blown out for f-ing women other than your mother" would you laugh because it was at a roast.

Or if I called Al sharpton a cotton picking n***** would that be funny to you?

Saying F--- Jesus is completely inappropriate at any social function.

It isnt even an attempt to be funny, it is just an insult to someones religion. It is bigotry. If it was more witty/comical (life of Brian Monty Python style) it is more acceptable in my opinion

You must agree roasting someone does not give you the right to say anything to anyone.

F-whoever...f-your mother, f-my mother, whatever.

Dana is f-ing gross...looks like a horse...where's the chick who was on that show before her (not Kit Hoover)...totally drawing a blank on the name...she was good to go...Anna/Ally/something of that nature?

Grote

Thea Andrews. Yeah I used to "get up" to that show in the morning in college if I wasn't doing a morning run or hungover.

F*** ESPN

F*** DANA

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-384303768572654593&q=Dana+Jacobson&total=14&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6830158276000913671&q=Dana+Jacobson&total=14&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

Right...Thea Andrews...good work. Knew there was an "A" in her name somewhere. She wasn't bad at all. Volleyball player or something, right? Canadian?

Grote

WTF, there's a Touchdown Allah in Kabul? Have to go by and see it sometime. I learn something new everytime I stop by this site.

Truthman4Real wrote:

Look at it this way...

If she would have said, "F*** Touchdown Allah," she would already be laying headless in a basement somewhere in Kabul.

I loved Thea Andrews too. I quit watching Cold Pizza when they got rid of her and added Dana.

so no actual video...?

I'm not sure I *must* agree but, even so, this wasn't "in public" it was a private function and a roast - which, by definition, skirts the boundaries of what is "appropriate" to say in public.

Your opinion.

Context is everything - yes, given the context of a roast I would most likely laugh... and, even if I didn't, I wouldn't take offense... again, the whole point of a roast is to one-up each other & push the boundaries of propriety.

Again, context. Let's say, for example, you and I have been good friends for a number of years and one day you told me you won $25,000 in the lottery. In response I say "you scum-sucking sack of sh^t... no F#ing way!!" Now, do I really think your a scum-sucking SOS? Do you *really* take offense or do you realize, contextually, that I'm actually excited for you?

Your opinion.

no... it may not be funny, but that makes it a *poor* attempt to be funny. A very different thing.

Good Lord... are you really that PC? The whole basis of humor is to make fun of our differences and, in so doing, to illustrate how utterly akin we all are.

So when Monty Python makes fun of Christians and Jews in Life of Brian, it's not bigotry because *you* think it's funny? There's a very fine line between one person's funny and another's bigotry.

Again, I *must* agree to nothing of the sort. Allowing ourselves to say things within the framework of humor, however poorly conceived the humor, is a healthy way to bring thoughts to the surface that might otherwise fester and poison if held within. By saying something in a humorous vein, in a context within which everyone in attendence understands that such things will be said, allows us to hear how utterly ridiculous true bigotry really is.