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Lorena Bobbitt to Oprah: Why I Threw It Out the Window

TresSugar — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:00:00 -0700

The "it" I'm referring to, of course, is Lorena's husband's penis she had just cut off.

It was 1993, and the nation was morbidly curious and nervous-laughing about a story that seemed too crazy to be true. Beautician Lorena Bobbitt, suffering from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) after years of enduring spousal abuse, a forced abortion, and infidelities from her husband John Wayne Bobbitt, snapped one night after he came home drunk and, according to her, raped her.

She went into the kitchen, saw a gleaming knife, and cut part of John's penis off. She then got into a car (holding the severed penis) but threw it out the window while she drove. She recently appeared on Oprah and explained why she did it. Curious about the aftermath for all parties involved? Then watch the clip when you read more.

Lorena, as she told the jurors during her trial, realized after her action that she'd done something horrific and stopped the car and called 911. After searching for hours in a field, paramedics found the severed penis, and it was eventually reattached.

Although John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitted in a later trial of charges of spousal rape, jurors believed that Lorena had indeed snapped after years of abuse and found her innocent by reason of insanity.

Lorena has since remarried, had a child, and started an organization to help educate and stop domestic abuse. John's post-severed penis life was a little more chaotic. He was charged numerous times afterward with domestic violence against girlfriends and wives (wow, some dudes never learn!), formed a band called "The Severed Parts," starred in a couple porno flicks - "John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut" and "Frankenpenis" - and was even briefly a minister in a Vegas church.

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Bill O'Reilly's Meltdown: What You Didn't See

GiggleSugar — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 -0700

If you're like me, you can't get enough of Bill O'Reilly gettin' his. Someone imagines what the hapless producer must've been saying on his end to get Bill so freaking, psychotically riled up. How about, "How can anyone have a head that large without anything in it?" Ha! Why is this so fun?

Flashback: Bill O'Reilly Goes Apesh*t

GiggleSugar — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:00:00 -0700

Surprise, surprise, surprise: Pompous Bill O'Reilly has always needed an anger-management intervention! In this vintage clip from Inside Edition, a technical difficulty causes the telepromter to malfunction, sending good ol' Bill into a meltdown of epic proportions. While he loses his cool, his weird, hairsprayed hair doesn't move an inch.

Thanks, College Humor!

A News Report With a Disturbing Twist

GiggleSugar — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:00:00 -0700

Inside Edition covered the story of a mother of three who mysteriously received a Girls Gone Wild vid in the mail one day. Assuming it was sent by accident, she promptly called customer service and returned the vid. Imagine her surprise when the same "mishap" happened again and again . . . gasp! (For more on the story, click here.)

SNL's Lorne Michaels Has Politics on the Brain

LibertySugar — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:00:18 -0700

While Buzz attends the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Hollywood, she's been passing on all things political. Just yesterday, she got inches away from Keith Olbermann (who is "surprisingly very attractive" in person) and on Sunday she took an inside look at Saturday Night Live, which is gearing up for an intense election season schedule, including a Thursday night edition of Weekend Update.

Buzz got the scoop on whether Lorne Michaels, executive producer and co-creator of SNL, finds certain politicians funnier than others. Here's what he had to say:

Who is funnier: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or John McCain?
Avoiding the question, "Our job isn't to get too close. . . . We were accused of just pounding Hillary Clinton at the beginning of the season and then we were accused of being just totally for [her] - so it shifts week to week. But I can tell you that whoever's in power, we're suspicious of."

To find out more, including whether SNL will miss President Bush, read more.

From a satirical perspective, will SNL miss the Bush administration?
"No. About two years ago it became apparent that it was harder and harder to do anything about the president on the show. There was nothing you could be telling the audience that they weren't more than familiar with. I think that when this campaign started it was both a breath of fresh air and the country totally welcomed it in the sense that there was going to be change."

Why do people have so much trouble making fun of Obama:
"I think he's still defining himself, and he is primarily cast as heroic, which is, I think, what he is. But sooner or later, everyone does something to irritate us. And as it becomes more and more familiar, you just sort of find where the take is that everyone agrees on. I was watching Obama overseas earlier today, and you see - it's still being done very cautiously and very reverently. It might stay that way until November but maybe it won't."

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A New Contender For Game Night?

CitizenSugar — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:18 -0800

I don't know about you, but I'm a little mad at Trivial Pursuit. It's kind of...regressed? It's gotten a little too easy with all of the "90s Edition/Pop Culture Edition" and whatnot. So I'm in the market for a new trivia game. I wonder if this is it?

It's called Fact or Crap and that's the gist of it. They give questions like, "Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital." and you would say, "fact." Or, "the sun is so big you could fit more than 100,000 earths inside it," to which the answer is "crap." Okay, I don't know if it stands to be more challenging than Trivial Pursuit, but I'm game to find out!