What is it with sports personalities who land their own talk shows on HBO? Their maiden show gets hijacked by some blowhard celebrity who makes headlines for the wrong reasons.
Seven years after Howard Stern comic Artie Lang destroyed Joe Buck's aspirations of becoming a late-night talk show host, Hollywood actor/director Ben Affleck unwittingly tried to do the same to his Boston buddy Bill Simmons.
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During Wednesday night's premiere of Simmons' new HBO show, "Any Given Wednesday," a bloviating Affleck went on an expletive-filled rant about the Deflategate punishment given Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.