Motley Crue has sued NBC in Los Angeles federal court, accusing the network of banning the heavy metal band from its television programs to curry favor with federal regulators cracking down on indecency.
The suit, which was filed on Tuesday, seeks a court-ordered lifting of the NBC ban, a declaration that the ban was illegal, as well as unspecified damages the band suffered due to its loss of media exposure on both NBC and in other media outlets.
In a statement, NBC said Neil had "violated NBC's standards" and added that the network "has the right to decide not to invite back guests who violate those standards and use an expletive during a live entertainment program.
" The network called the lawsuit "meritless."
Someone please send these buffoons back to obscurity. Look, this is a band most remembered for their made-at-home porn videos and an episode of Behind the Music that revealed them as subnormal in intelligence, judgment, and the basic survival instincts passed down to them by millions of years of evolution.
Media exposure? They're an oldies act, playing to thirtysomething nostalgists and a small number of thrill-seekers hoping to see one of them die onstage. That they're even on Leno shows the level of showbiz he works on; and, face it, without the Peter Principle they'd be on the county fair circuit where they belong.
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