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April 4th, 2007 WW Editorial Staff | Rogue of the Week
 

KUFO and CBS Radio

This week's scalding brand of shame lands on radio station KUFO and its CBS Radio parent.

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Kristine Levine
This week's scalding brand of shame lands on radio station KUFO and its CBS Radio parent for stopping local radio personalities Kristine Levine and "Big" Jim Willig from participating in a comedy show to raise money and awareness for pot legalization.

Organizers of the so-called "Dope Show" had obtained commitments more than a month ago from Levine and Willig of KUFO's Howard Stern-inspired Marconi Show.

But last Friday, March 30, they learned those commitments were off for one of the three Portland-area Dope Show performances, on April 20 at the Bagdad Theater & Pub (3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd.).

"It sounded like their jobs were on the line,'' says Los Angeles-based stand-up comedian Tere Joyce, who co-created the Dope Show with fellow comedian Jeffrey Peterson.

(Joyce says the show chose to bring its benefit performances to Oregon on and around April 20—a date held sacred by nickel-bag numerologists for its connection to the toker code 4-20—because in 1973 Oregon became the first state to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. The local shows will benefit Oregon NORML, a marijuana law reform group.)

While KUFO normally condones the scatological and often drunken hijinks of the popular Marconi Show, it apparently finds Joyce's show too offensive to be associated with the Big Bad Buddha.

Levine politely declined to comment, citing directives from her bosses. CBS Radio didn't return the Rogue Desk's inquiries.

"We will miss their participation," local comedian and Dope Show participant Mark "Mustard Man" Kikel writes on his blog. "But the Dope Show's Portland 420 Tour will go on."

For more information about the Bagdad show and two others in Portland (on April 18 and 22), go to myspace.com/theedopeshow.

 
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04.04.2007 at 11:09 Reply
LIARS! Stop smearing the Marconi show name and Kristine and Big Jim!! The Marconi show is all about local artists, everything Portland, etc. - listen to KUFO 101.1 RIGHT NOW!! No body cares about a dude who drinks mustard!!! Get reliable sources Willamette.

 

04.04.2007 at 11:29 Reply
The "Dope" Show? More like the comics no one cares about this show. Let's make a list Tere Joyce is a 3rd rate comedian at best. She was on the reality based show "Last Comic Standing" simply because she was a blithering cry baby and overly dramatic. Jeffrey Peterson, what can I say about him? Absolutely nothing! This guy is such a no name his parents don't even know who he is. And finally Mark "The Mus-tard Man" Kikel, 20 year veteran who's biggest claim to fame is drinking a bottle of mustard on the tonight show. Venting his frustration for losing a Marconi Show comedy contest no more than two weeks ago. It is wonderful that your publication is printing the cheap attempt for publicity from a 3rd rate show. It must feel great to spread mediocrity. How about printing something worth reading and not blasting someone for his or her job. I dare you to send a member of your publication to one of "The Dope Show" shows so you all can see what you helped shamelessly plug for free. Way to be a tool.

 

04.04.2007 at 12:36 Reply
LEAVE KRISTINE LEVINE ALONE! SHE IS MY FUTURE EX WIFE AND I WILL DEFEND HER HONOR TO THE END. AND BIG JIM IS A COOL BASTARD TOO!

 

04.04.2007 at 12:48 Reply
Kristine and Jim are no great loss. That show is so annoying anyway. God, what a hideous picture, too.

 

04.05.2007 at 07:17 Reply
This is directed at the three idiots above me who obviously don't know their heads from their asses. First of all lets get one thing straight. I am not the one who issued the press release about CBS forcing Kristine and Big Jim to pull out of The Dope Show's Portland 420 Tour show at The Bagdad on 04/20/07. It was Dope Show Co-Creator Tere Joyce. Tere has told me that she will take full responsibility for the press release. Willamette Week ran the article, not me. I don't own a newspaper you fucktards. So I am not responsible for the article. That would be Bill Crawford. So why was I fucked in the ass on a live radio broadcast yesterday?

I am merely a local comic/promoter (with over 24 years in the business) trying to put on three very cool comedy/rock n roll shows here in Portland. And give nine Portland comics a chance to perform and make some money with us on those three different nights. I did NOTHING to deserve the absolute asassination of my character yesterday on The Marconi Show. The things that Kristine and Marconi spewed from their pork and cum stained lips about me were untrue, hurtful, mean, and worst off, directed at the wrong person. Who in the fuck made this a personal thing? Our problem is and always will be with CBS. When Big Jim called me last Friday to cancel he told me that him and Kristine were called into their new bosses office and told to cancel their appearance in The Dope Show. They were told that the station didn't want to be associated with that kind of thing (this from a station that has bong shops advertise their "detox" products. I guess it's ok to sell things to smoke dope and other drugs and clean it out of your system, just nothing to help decriminalize marijuana, lol). Jim said their "old boss" would have been cool with it. Now where would I come up with that? Is there a "new" boss at KUFO? I don't know, I don't work for them. C'mon people, get real. See the web of corporate lies unfolding? I was upset because I already had 4,000 4Up mini-flyers printed with everybodies name and credits on it. And since Kristine and Jim have yet to set the comedy world on fire, I wasn't really upset with them cancelling. We really did just book them hoping to get a little incidental mentioning on the air here and there leading up to the shows. Kristine even said that maybe Tere and Dope Show Co-Creater Jeffrey Peterson could be in studio that afternoon of 4/20. That must have all been a crock of shit to begin with right? I must be lying about that too? After all I'm not "a reliable source" according to Kristine & Marconi. You stupid fucking bottom feeding Marconi Believers. I am ashamed that humans like you can actually be that stupid and allowed to live. It offends me. We replaced the two losers with Headliners James Heneghen and Brett Walko. Their absence actually will make for a better show. And these shows will still sell out. On the air Kristine LIED and said that their cancellation to do our BENEFIT SHOW was their own choice. So someone's lying here. I am self employed. I am my own boss. I don't have a job to get fired from here people. I don't have a boss to lie to and worry about getting busted lying. Get it? Are you three fucknuts keeping up? If Kristine and Jim wanted to cancel and say it was THEIR choice, not CBS RADIO's choice that would have been one thing. But they chose to lie. I'm not sure exactly who's afraid of losing their job but I really dont care, because yesterday I won the lottery. Because everything they said on the air yesterday will be used in a lawsuit against CBS Radio, KUFO, The Marconi Show, Kristine, and Marconi. I will be a rich man thanks to their mean stupidity. Do you understand that you three fucking braindead wonders?

It's wierd. The conversation that started all of this was between Big Jim and myself. But neither of us participated in yesterdays on the air slaughter of me and my reputation. I'd call that a bit strange, wouldn't you?

And to the extreme moron who made the remark about the Bonaduce thing. I had a good set but by no means did I think I had won. There were three other comic friends of mine who all stood in the back with me and agreed that Gabe or Sharon was gonna win. So your remark about me being upset at not winning a trip to Vegas was SHIT TALK you asswipe. I have been to Hollywood twice and have won two trips to NY in the last 2 years (one by winning a Sierra Mist Comedy Competition). That shows what an uneducated fucking LOSER you are. Oh, wait, that's right. YOU are the perfect Marconi demograpghic. Look that one up in the big red book with werds and stuff in it ya genius.

We never had a problem with Kristine or Big Jim. We fully understand their decision to spare their jobs and cancel a benefit comedy show in the process. We completely understood that IMMEDIATELY and felt bad that they were not going to be able to perform with us that night. The fact of the matter that they have slandered, libeled, and defamed my character will all be brought out in court. Because what they did was illegal. And that's all I have to say about that. Peace, Musty

 

 
 

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