Last evening, the new Comic Relief special aired "live" from Las Vegas on HBO and simultaneously on TBS. I'm not sure if it was live on HBO but it was on a delay of ten seconds (or thereabouts) on TBS so someone there could bleep out the dirty words. I feel sorry for the guy who had to do that. With some acts, it meant cutting out every fifth word or so. I didn't see Dane Cook's routine on TBS but it must have sounded like one of those 16mm movies we saw in high school…the ones with so many splices that the narrator was leaping from sentence to sentence without verbs or adjectives or sometimes even nouns.
Is there any point to bleeping something like this? I understand there are people who hear a naughty word and are shocked, outraged, offended, etc. Were any of those people watching the expurgated version? Were they enjoying it? Was there any reason to watch it there except that you aren't spending the money for HBO?