{"id":376267,"date":"2010-03-01T15:51:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20120a8e7d4f8970b"},"modified":"2010-03-01T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:51:21","slug":"undercover-boss-would-be-more-difficult-with-celebrity-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/376267","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Undercover Boss&#8217; would be more difficult with celebrity bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object data=\"http:\/\/widgets.nbc.com\/o\/4727a250e66f9723\/4b8c07d34ebd43dd\/4b8b62cea2ab4fe8\/7116489\/-cpid\/7ef3f3d5a5b00655\" height=\"243\" id=\"W4727a250e66f97234b8c07d34ebd43dd\" style=\"margin: 0pt 8pt 0pt 0px; float: left;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/widgets.nbc.com\/o\/4727a250e66f9723\/4b8c07d34ebd43dd\/4b8b62cea2ab4fe8\/7116489\/-cpid\/7ef3f3d5a5b00655\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Martha F***ing Stewart does not do dishes, and the Olsen twins make really lousy manual laborers. So says this skit from this weekend&#8217;s <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>, where the cast parodied the CBS hit <em>Undercover Boss<\/em> with a less-likely-to-succeed show dubbed <em>Undercover Celebrity Boss<\/em>. Among the discoveries: Sir Richard Branson can&#8217;t really go incognito. Not with that ego. Or that hair. (Kudos, Bill Hader, for an impersonation well done.) Once <em>SNL<\/em> pokes fun at you, you&#8217;re part of the conversation, so CBS and its product-placement-heavy show must be thrilled. And the big ratings just keep coming. Sunday&#8217;s episode, where the CEO of White Castle made a mess of the square-burger chain&#8217;s assembly line, drew 15.1 million viewers and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrfeed.com\/2010\/03\/marriage-ref-ratings-.html\" >beat even the heavily promoted Jerry Seinfeld-produced <em>Marriage Ref<\/em><\/a> on NBC. Critics have called <em>Undercover Boss<\/em> emotionally manipulative, though viewers can&#8217;t seem to get enough. Next up: behind the scenes at Louisville&#8217;s historic racetrack Churchill Downs, where the CEO getting his hands dirty should really be something to see. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by T.L. Stanley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martha F***ing Stewart does not do dishes, and the Olsen twins make really lousy manual laborers. So says this skit from this weekend&#8217;s Saturday Night Live, where the cast parodied the CBS hit Undercover Boss with a less-likely-to-succeed show dubbed Undercover Celebrity Boss. Among the discoveries: Sir Richard Branson can&#8217;t really go incognito. Not with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}