Jane says the 'C' word on Today Show

jst5150 · Feb 15, 2008

Did anyone hear it?

"I was asked to do a monologue called 'C***,' and I said, 'I don't think so. I've got enough problems," Fonda said. "Then I came to New York to see Eve and it changed my life."
The "Today Show" airs live on the U.S. East Coast, and the word was not muted or bleeped. Moments later program host Meredith Vieira apologized to audiences.
"Jane Fonda inadvertently said a word from the play that you don't say on television. It was a slip and obviously she apologizes and so do we," Vieira said. "We would do nothing to offend the audience, so please accept that apology."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080215/tv_nm/fonda_apology_dc

Haggis · Feb 15, 2008

I'm sorry. I have Jane on 'ignore.'

maestrowork · Feb 15, 2008

But the monologue is called that.

But yeah, probably better to have said "I was asked to do a monologue called, you know, the c-word."

ChunkyC · Feb 15, 2008

Cork?

Crud?

Crap?

Clap?

Clam?

Am I getting warmer?

there are moments when it's really fun not being an admin anymore

Shadow_Ferret · Feb 15, 2008

I thought they were called the Vagina Monologues, not the C--- Monologues.

Or am I just moving in the prudish circles and it's really called C--- Monologues?

maestrowork · Feb 15, 2008

As noted on the Atonement soundtrack: Cee, You and Tea.

IHeartWriting · Feb 15, 2008

Jane bothers me less than NBC calling Eve Ensler a "playwrite"...

Stew21 · Feb 15, 2008

Shadow_Ferret said:
I thought they were called the Vagina Monologues, not the C--- Monologues.

Or am I just moving in the prudish circles and it's really called C--- Monologues?

They are called Vagina Monologues, and each individual monologue (I'm guessing from this article, since I've never seen these) has its own name. They wanted her to do one called "that c-word".

benbradley · Feb 15, 2008

ChunkyC said:
Cork?

Crud?

Crap?

Clap?

Clam?

Am I getting warmer?

there are moments when it's really fun not being an admin anymore

There's a clip of her saying it on youtube. Is that the word?

Watch out for those liberals, they're cunning...

jst5150 · Feb 15, 2008

I bet John McCain heard it.

You gotta walk a long way to get that line, but when you do, it's a good one.

cray · Feb 15, 2008

let's cool all the chit chat on this one until next week when we've had a chance to digest it. how's tuesday? tuesday a good day to come back here and talk about this. great.
ok then,
see you next tuesday.

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Feb 15, 2008

Haggis said:
I'm sorry. I have Jane on 'ignore.'

I've had her on 'ignore' for probably as long as you have, Haggis. It doesn't surprise me that my least favorite word falls easily from the lips of my least favorite 'celebrity'.

willietheshakes · Feb 15, 2008

Given the point of that particular monologue, I wouldn't be surprised if she had used the word deliberately. Live. On national television.

Warms the cockles of my heart it does. Or c*ntles. You know, whatever those bits are that need warming.

Toothpaste · Feb 15, 2008

What is interesting about the situation, and about that monologue, is that it is about reclaiming that word. I have always found it very telling that the most offensive curse word in the english language (at least in North America, in the UK they use it as much as the F word), is a term of the female anatomy. No one has any problem saying dick, but when someone says the C word it gets national coverage. Heck just using the word 'vagina' can get some people up in arms.

While I agree that television has certain standards (especially morning television), and Jane would not have been allowed to say F*** either, I just think it's kind of ironic that the whole point in naming the monologue that word was to show how silly it is that people find it so offensive.

ChunkyC · Feb 15, 2008

Yes indeed, they're just words. It's the thoughts and emotional state of the one using them that count. I'm always amused by people who believe they're being pious by calling someone a "flim-flammin' horn-swaggler" when what they are thinking is every bit as evil and venomous as the guy who calls someone a c**ksucker.

jst5150 · Feb 15, 2008

ChunkyC said:
... is every bit as evil and venomous as the guy who calls someone a c**ksucker.

And c**ksucker is also the magic word that gets managers booted out of baseball games.

There's a lot of words that can be said up until that word. But once that word comes out, boo-yah, it's the showers for you.

ChunkyC · Feb 15, 2008

Shoulda just called the ump a "no good varmint."

DWSTXS · Feb 15, 2008

well, I agree with Letterman. Maybe she just used that word because that's what Ted has called her all these years.

Shadow_Ferret · Feb 15, 2008

Toothpaste said:
No one has any problem saying dick, but when someone says the C word it gets national coverage. Heck just using the word 'vagina' can get some people up in arms.

Well, Dick is a persons name. Trying saying the male version of the C-word and see where that gets you.

Well, unless you're talking Chinese Astrology. I was born in the Year of the Cock.

ChunkyC · Feb 15, 2008

DWSTXS said:
well, I agree with Letterman. Maybe she just used that word because that's what Ted has called her all these years.

Shadow_Ferret said:
Well, unless you're talking Chinese Astrology. I was born in the Year of the Cock.

DWSTXS · Feb 15, 2008

I still think that 'cootchie' is a perfect word for area. It's not too dirty sounding, yet it still has that aura about it. It rolls off the tongue very easily too.

wait. did I actually say that? oops

Shadow_Ferret · Feb 15, 2008

DWSTXS said:
I still think that 'cootchie' is a perfect word for area.

Isn't that what Charo was famous for saying?

ChunkyC · Feb 15, 2008

DWSTXS said:
It rolls off the tongue very easily too.

wait. did I actually say that? oops

I gotta log out of here before the boss catches me lying on the floor....

DWSTXS · Feb 15, 2008

actually, I think I misspelled it. It's coochie.
There are no 'cooties' involved. Well, hopefully there aren't.

Shadow_Ferret · Feb 15, 2008

DWSTXS said:
actually, I think I misspelled it. It's coochie.
There are no 'cooties' involved. Well, hopefully there aren't.

Yeah, Charo was known as the Coochie Girl. Hmm. Or was she saying Gutci? Maybe she was into fashion and not sex.

And wait, exactly what does hootchie coochie really mean?

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