If I Only Had a Blaine

Television Specials

By madeyoulaugh | | 11:57 am | 16 Comments

DavidBlaineDrowned_big.jpg Tonight, on ABC, magician David Blaine has another special of him not doing magic. After bing submerged in a tank of water for a week (another non amazing non magic thing he did) he will attempt to hold his breath for a record breaking 9 minutes!! THAT’S LONGER THAN ANY OTHER PERSON EVER, FREAKING WOW!!

Allow me to break this down for a moment. For over 60 years television has brought into our homes innovative story telling, variety shows, world news and now a two hour Monday night event all leading up to a dude holding his breath. Is this really television worthy? I enjoy ghetto trash and the hottest girl in the trailer park vying for Flava-Flav’s attention as much as the next guy, but 2 hours leading up to holding ones breath for 8 minutes is hardly enough to pull me away from PRISON BREAK and 24. Thankfully, that’s what TIVO is for and I will likely set mine for the last 12 minutes of the special which begins on ABC tonight at 8/7 central

What do you think, is this TV worthy or is it at best a cool webcast?

16 Comments

  1. 1
    The Svan
    Posted May 8, 2006 at 12:25 pm

    It’s barely worth Blaine’s mother talking about it to her closest friend. He’s an idiot, please quit talking about him.

  2. 2
    hardly@work
    Posted May 8, 2006 at 1:12 pm

    Neither, for once I may agree with The Svan

  3. 3
    dredge
    Posted May 8, 2006 at 2:10 pm

    the guy is boring

  4. 4
    scarieri
    Posted May 8, 2006 at 2:40 pm

    I saw this guy this weekend. Such a tool.

  5. 5
    EdHill
    Posted May 8, 2006 at 3:12 pm

    He’s cheating. He’ll be breathing pure oxygen befor ehe starts which can let you hold it up to 15 minutes.

    Its not going tpo be recognozed as a world record.

    Hes a loser.

  6. 6
    HoneyBunny
    Posted May 8, 2006 at 3:22 pm

    Blaine is a waste of “pure” oxygen…

    hb

  7. 7
    jenny10girl
    Posted May 8, 2006 at 3:31 pm

    I truly hope someone steps on his air hose long before he comes out of the stupid bubble.

  8. 8
    tvtvtv
    Posted May 8, 2006 at 5:00 pm

    A TWO HOUR special leading up to an attention-hungry idiot holding his breath for not even 1/13 of the full runtime? Height of ridiculosity.

  9. 9
    zevonia
    Posted May 8, 2006 at 6:05 pm

    Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.
    Again?
    Presto- oh, it’s David Blaine and he’s holding his breath. Guess I don’t know my own strengh.
    Now this isn’t something we’ll really like.

  10. 10
    missmermaid
    Posted May 8, 2006 at 7:15 pm

    The funniest thing in the world was when he lived in his little plexiglass box for 40 days (or whatever) in London. British people have no tolerance for any of that self-important shit. About half way through, some dude got one of those remote controlled little airplanes, with a bag of McDonald’s cheesburgers, and flew it up to his box to taunt him, when he was like, 3 weeks through it. But the most hysterical thing was how scared he got on the first couple of nights up there. Some drunken students had one of those laser pointers and were shining it in his eyes when he was trying to sleep. He got up screaming blue murder and freaking out because he thought “sniper terrorists” were marking him… f*cking tool.

  11. 11
    Ubiquitous
    Posted May 9, 2006 at 2:05 am

    He’s cheating. He’ll be breathing pure oxygen before he starts which can let you hold it up to 15 minutes.

    If it doesn’t burn your lungs first. So that’s how he did it, eh? Figures.

  12. 12
    The Svan
    Posted May 9, 2006 at 4:32 am

    He didn’t do it. He failed, just like he is failing life. Plus he has liver damage and other assorted problems.

  13. 13
    zoobabe
    Posted May 9, 2006 at 6:03 am

    I can think of more exciting/fun ways of getting liver damage.

  14. 14
    EdHill
    Posted May 9, 2006 at 6:53 am

    I’m so happy he failed.

  15. 15
    dredge
    Posted May 9, 2006 at 8:00 am

    hi..i’m david blaine..i have a nice bod…look…look…gurgle…gurgle…

  16. 16
    Foxbase Alpha
    Posted May 9, 2006 at 8:08 am

    So disappointed! They kept promising that David Blaine would be drowned alive, but it never happened.

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Human Verification: In order to verify that you are a human and not a spam bot, please enter the answer into the following box below based on the instructions contained in the graphic.