Red Eye profile…
The New York Times’ Campbell Robertson profiles FNC’s “Red Eye”…
John Moody, an executive vice president at Fox News, described it this way: “It’s sort of like making a sandwich late at night. You just grab what’s in the fridge and put it all together.”
Last summer, Mr. Moody and Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, decided to fill that unexploited time slot with something aimed at 20- and 30-somethings. Scott Norvell, the network’s London bureau chief, suggested Greg Gutfeld, who was living in London at the time and working on a book, as a possible host.
Mr. Gutfeld, 42, a compact but enormously animated man (“a drugged-up turtle” as he referred to his on-screen presence), was known for injecting his dark, absurdist humor into a series of magazines he edited: Men’s Health, then Stuff, then the British version of Maxim. Among his endeavors were going on a pub crawl with a leper and hiring a group of dwarfs to infiltrate a magazine conference.
Management was not always amused. (His contract was not renewed at British Maxim last spring.) But he kept attracting buzz, and continued to do so during his tenure as a blogger at The Huffington Post, where he stood out like a drunk who crashes a cocktail party.
For the NY Times, a very fair and balanced article.
Randy: Hopefully you saw Jackie Mason’s remarks about your idol at MSNBC (”Red Eye” last night). It will definitely ruin your day!
Comment by Ira — April 10, 2007 @ 11:52 am
You grab what’s in the fridge and go with that…and the sandwich winds up tasting like crap. hmmm…crap pretty much sums up the show, huh?
Comment by Me — April 10, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
Me, don’t watch it, OK?
It’s kind of a cute program. What do you want at 2 a.m.?
Comment by Missy — April 10, 2007 @ 5:04 pm
Missy, Everything is crap on FNC to Me aKa CNW, Stud, etc…
I was surprised to read Levy is 40. Damn, thought maybe he was like 33-35
Comment by Lurker — April 10, 2007 @ 5:21 pm