Joe Rogan and Joe DeRosa discover that Honeymooners creator Jackie Gleason walked away from $7,000,000 left on his contract in 1956 because he didn’t want to “cheapen” the show.
That's about $83,000,000 in today’s money, or $1,000,000 per episode.
ROGAN: “There’s only one season?”
DEROSA: "He did 39 episodes. And he was like, 'We did it. It's done.' Nobody does that now. They were like, 'You have to do more of these.' And he's like, 'Nope, we did it. We're good. We have nothing left to say.'"
ROGAN: "Really?"
DEROSA: "Yeah. And then they did reunion shows and shit. But, like, that was it. That's wild!"
DEROSA: "Look at this. He had $7 million left in his contract in 1956, which is crazy money. [Gleason said], 'The excellence of the material could not be maintained. I had too much fondness for the show to cheapen it.'"
ROGAN: "Wow."
DEROSA: "I mean, that is baller shit back then. Like, that is not something people were doing back then."
ROGAN: "Or he just got lazy because he had so much money."
JAMIE: "CBS was gonna give him a three-year contract for what would have been $132 million today. He was going to get close to like a million dollars an episode."
ROGAN: "A million an episode back then?"
JAMIE: "No, no, no. [In today's dollars]."
DEROSA: "When Seinfeld... announced they were all going to get a million an episode, I remember that was like groundbreaking... This guy was offered the equivalent of that back in '56 and said, 'Nah, I'm good.'"
In December 1954, Gleason signed a three-year, $11,000,000 deal with Buick and CBS, the largest contract in television history at the time. The deal called for two seasons with an option for a third, but he stopped after one, leaving roughly $7,000,000 on the table.
Gleason said: “The excellence of the material could not be maintained. I had too much fondness for the show to cheapen it.”
HERO ALERT: An armed citizen stopped a shotgun threat inside a crowded Utah gas station before the suspect could fire.
Police say 23-year-old Ofa’tangikivaha Angilau became belligerent after a clerk refused to sell him alcohol without identification.
Another customer intervened and helped remove him from the store.
But Angilau returned carrying a shotgun.
The armed citizen immediately opened fire, striking Angilau before he could discharge the weapon or hurt anyone inside.
Angilau did not survive. The armed citizen remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators.
A dangerous man entered a crowded business carrying a shotgun. Thankfully, a law-abiding citizen was prepared to stop him. When a threat appears without warning, an armed citizen may be the only person standing between innocent people and tragedy.
#DefensiveGunUse #SecondAmendment
Even MSNOW knows that last night’s election in Wisconsin was rigged.
I don’t like the Islamic Communist, but Francesca Hong @FrancescaHongWI won, and the Democrat Socialist stole it from her.
Given this fact, everyone should be very concerned with what the left is plotting in November.
Trump should declare a national emergency.
No more rigged elections.
INSANE: Former Buffalo #Bills Pro Bowl running back Travis Henry has reportedly had 11 children with 10 different women by the age of 30.
Henry claimed to be broke as of 2009, saying that he could not pay the estimated $170,000 annual child support obligations.
(Via NY Times)