NewsRadio: Jimmy James on Advertising 

Yeah he's awesome in King Of The Hill

and as 'gay vampire Eddie" in "Trueblood."

PAN SHOT!

I have to watch Newsradio remind myself of Jimmy James, cause I’m all the way messed up and hate Fuches in Barry...Stephen Root is the BEST!! He will always be Jimmy James!!

And on Adventure Time.

You need to hang out with cooler people

The facial expression he makes while saying it is so fantastic too 😂

Tell me more about this other Les Nessman.

i only have the seasons that mattered(1-4)

kefka roth season 5 has its moments but due to Phil Hartman’s murder, you can feel his absence throughout the season. Also it shouldn’t have ended with a cliffhanger where everyone at the station was basically moving to Connecticut, since there was no season 6.

@@Jared_Wignall that was also because at the end of season 4, they all thought it was over and were ready to move on. That must have been so awkward to make everybody come back for an additional season that nobody wanted and without "the glue"(phil) holding it together. It should of just mercilessly stopped after season 4. Ironically, I thought the show just got better and better during seasons 3 and 4 while the showpeople thought it was starting to become too "cartoon-like". Even if Phil didn't die, he really didn't want to do it either and probably would have left; everybody including Paul Simms was so tired of fighting with the network and the network did everything it could to sabotage it.

Also that he's so pro-Sesame Street which is on PBS and ad-free

I noticed that, too. People often make that mistake.

@Emperor Ssraeshza: It almost certainly is part of the joke. Jimmy being a high school dropout who only succeeded in business because of his natural instincts is a recurring plot point.

He’s just more of a character actor than a lead actor. It suits his talents much better. He’s still been a very prolific actor with 250 acting credits. It’s always a pleasure to watch him pop up in a small role when you least expect him.

Nope. In Ye Olden Days -- back when this was made -- a newspaper/magazine/news radio outlet's advertising sales side and reporting/editorial side were kept STRICTLY divided. We're talking an iron curtain between the two to prevent business interests from having any influence whatsoever on coverage. No contact, no overlap, no nothing. That's the point of the joke. It's a thing of the past now.

@@CantankerousDave What's your point? What exactly does any of that have to do with Jimmy James (correctly) stating that advertising is what keeps them afloat?

Office Space.

He had a good role in Justified as well. Can’t forget Bill in King of the Hill either.

He's been in so many things that I usually play a "when will Steven Root show up" game when starting a new series. Him and Gary Cole.

This show might not be the best source for historical facts.

IIRC, Jimmy is a high-school dropout.

@@Dr_C_Smith the eyes are the windows to the skull, my friend.

@@Dr_C_Smith I think it's there for comic relief. /whoosh

Newsradio

The Declaration of Independence is the advertisement. The Constitution is the live show.

Wait....this isn't a tutorial on forensics?

So Jimmy James argues like a democrat.

@@jayferguson9968 When was the last time you even heard a republican speak truth about reality let alone facts?

@@mckenzie.latham91 'When was the last time you even heard a republican speak truth about reality let alone facts?' - Golly! Must have been almost twenty minutes ago.

I'm 5 years late in responding but I can explain that np ; He's making a point about how her statement decrying advertising is irrelevant and inappropriate because it is what fuels her career. Moreover, the basis upon which advertising exists is liberty which was one of the core values of the U.S. founding fathers which he humorously but correctly lays down as an overlap to creativity and innovation. Also, the U.S. was built on liberty, merit, free-market enterprise and individual rights which allow for characters like Kermit the Frog to even exist *(NOTE:* He's correct. In ultra-leftist nations like Socialist Russia, Socialist Germany or Maoist China, that would be impossible to create, let alone become a major known character). This exists largely as a function of individual choices as applied to markets . Since leftist nations either don't have free markets or heavily corrupt them with leftist orthodoxy, it causes stiffled creativity and almost null innovation which goes to prove his point about Sesame Street as true even if absurd. Simply put; - Lisa is talking shit about advertising when that is literally the entire point of her job. - She is talking shit about the rights that made her entire professional viable hence the constitution is invoked. - Lastly, without liberty and free-market enterprise, creativity and innovation as we know them wouldn't exist. Is advertising deceptive? sometimes but it doesn't matter. Her point was flatly stupid but became extremely stupid because she's a professional BROADCASTER. tl;dr Jimmy HARD-raped Lisa's sandy vag in a humorous way, huehuehuehue.

You are probably still mad about what the Germans did to Pearl Harbor, huh?

That's (part of) the joke, brainlord.

Because he's his voice actor

How so?

That makes no sense on multiple levels.