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Hercules Says Cyndi Lauper's Candor Makes Sunday Night’s CELEBRITY APPRENTICE Worth Your Valuable Time!!

Published at:  Mar 14, 2010 1:58:27 PM CDT

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I am – Hercules!!


I very much enjoyed tonight’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” which is now less of a very long commercial than is competitor “Undercover Boss” over on CBS.

The reason to watch tonight is Cyndi Lauper, who may have joined the show just to mock and disparage Donald Trump on behalf of her friend (and longtime Trump nemesis) Rosie O’Donnell.

Lauper (who at 56 looks fantastic) quickly emerges as the star of this edition, hilarious noting Trump is wrong to make fun of the overweight for “he himself is not a thin man.”

Lauper and Trump even exchange words in the boardroom regarding O’Donnell’s merits. The singer-songwriter clearly places a higher value on friendship and loyalty than on winning this nonsense competition.

Comic and “Seinfeld” writer Carol Liefer, another great addition to the cast, says of her all-female team: “As far as I’m concerned, these women are some dumb bitches.” This show needs more nasty comics

It’s clear from the way Liefer promotes a charity lunch that, without Lauper and Sharon Osbourne, the women’s team – which also includes Summer Sanders (who?), Maria Kanellis (who?), Selita Ebanks (who?) and Holly Robinson Peete (uh?) really doesn’t boast a lot of name recognition.

On the men’s side, I’d at least heard of Goldberg, Sinbad, Darryl Strawberry, Bret Michaels and Rod Blagojevich (if not sprinter Michael Johnson and chef Curtis Stone).

9 p.m. Sunday. NBC.


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  • Mar 14, 2010 1:32:08 PM CDT

    Not if it's 2 hours long.

    by mistergreen

    Boring as hell when it's that long.

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  • Mar 14, 2010 1:32:19 PM CDT

    girls just wanna have fun

    by thebaxter

    especially 13-year-old girls who run TV news sites

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  • Mar 14, 2010 1:48:57 PM CDT

    who will paly the part of Dennis Rodman this year?

    by beefywhore

    can we get Goldberg to start drinking before the season finale?

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  • Mar 14, 2010 2:15:31 PM CDT

    Looking at this for Sinbad! He was hilarious in IASIP!!

    by hollywoodhellraiser

    IASIP= Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia!

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  • Mar 14, 2010 3:03:32 PM CDT

    Needs more Roddy Piper

    by i_am_the_ultimate_product

    Then again, so does everything.

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  • Mar 14, 2010 3:14:01 PM CDT

    GOLDBERG! GOLDBERG! GOLDBERG!

    by jaysin420

  • Mar 14, 2010 4:01:59 PM CDT

    I agree about 2 hour shows

    by muddymudskipper

    it's so hard to watch 2 hours of anything on TV something like this.. We should demand all reality crap be 1 hour, BB after dark is the only exception, I can for some reason watch those people eat and sit by the pool all night

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  • Mar 14, 2010 4:23:07 PM CDT

    Wrestlers that would be awesome on this.

    by umaga

    Roddy Piper, Ric Flair, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, there's like a million more. The Sandman!

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  • Mar 14, 2010 7:32:03 PM CDT

    HH, why not just type the whole damn title...

    by mistermanreturns

    to begin with?? WTF?

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  • Mar 14, 2010 7:47:26 PM CDT

    Sprinter Michael Johnson?

    by thebige

    The "Golden Shoes" Golden Boy of the 96 Atlanta Olympics? Never heard of him? Let's see if anyone remembers Apollo Ohno in 14 years.

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  • Mar 14, 2010 8:05:43 PM CDT

    Carol Leifer is ugly

    by bumlove

    She's the typical bitter ugly girl cum comic in the vein of other ugly female comics like Kathy Griffin and Joan Rivers. Of course she's going to attack her attractive female costars because that's her albatross that she's carried all her life....her ugliness.

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  • Mar 14, 2010 9:03:20 PM CDT

    Donald Jr. is such a douchebag

    by bumlove

    That nepotism case is an embarrassment.

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  • Mar 14, 2010 9:07:57 PM CDT

    Ha Ha, her ugliness is an albatross

    by liljuniorbrown

    That made me laugh. I didn't watch this but I bet it's true. I wish Goldberg would beat the shit out of Trump,or if they would bring Rosie on for a cameo and he can mule kick her in the head. Thats must see TV!!

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  • Mar 14, 2010 9:55:22 PM CDT

    Surprisingly Good ...

    by itchy

    Not usually a big fan of The Apprentice, but this season's cast actually seems pretty damn good. No complete retards like Rodman or Andrew Dice Clay ... so the competitions actually have the potential to be pretty interesting.

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  • Mar 14, 2010 9:58:20 PM CDT

    Cyndi Lauper is awesome

    by bumlove

    And thank God that ugly bitch Carol Leifer is gone in the first round. No more ugly female comics.

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  • Mar 14, 2010 10:20:25 PM CDT

    Loved Cyndi, but she won't last long

    by rsanta74

    She's just too damn nice. In real life, that'd make her one of the best people to be around. In business, she's gonna get eaten alive. Even if she could step up & be a little more mean, which I doubt, she strikes me as a bit more artsy than businessy. That's gonna bite her in the ass later on.

    I'm calling it now. Sharon VS Brett. Michaels is a dark horse. He's this season's Trace Adkins, not a business guy, but always pulls through in the clutch. Sharon's hell on high heels. She's another Joan or Piers. She's smart and she's gonna pick off Holly early, as Holly's her real competition. She'll use the other women like pawns and leave Cyndi until she no longer needs her high profile name.

    Again, loved, loved, LOVED Cyndi on this. She's got a little heft to her these days, but she's still cute as a button at 56. Classy & down to Earth too. Shame that she'll be meat for the beast.

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  • Mar 14, 2010 10:36:14 PM CDT

    I expect at least one Ozzy appearence

    by i_am_the_ultimate_product

    I see Sharon doing that. Not that that's a bad thing.

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  • Mar 14, 2010 11:00:08 PM CDT

    Get DVR or Tivo!

    by backrivercatfish

    I watched in about 1 hour, thats the only way I could watch it!

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  • Mar 15, 2010 12:16:14 AM CDT

    Cyndi Lauper ISN'T a nice person in real life.

    by droogie alex

    She always does her Brooklyn "woman of the people" act, but she's very nasty to behind the scenes workers. Both my brother and a close friend worked on tv/photo shoots with her and she was bitchy & rude.

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  • Mar 15, 2010 4:41:23 AM CDT

    Carol Liefer is not ugly

    by hst666

    And she's been around a long time. I could be wrong, but I thought Elaine character on Seinfeld was based in part upon Ms. Liefer.And Kathy Griffin is hilarious.

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  • Mar 15, 2010 6:44:34 AM CDT

    Selita Ebanks is a supermodel

    by kimrae1977

    Mostly for Victoria's Secret. If you've watched the runway show during the past 5 years, you've seen her.

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  • Mar 15, 2010 6:47:32 AM CDT

    I wanted to eat Ivanka for that charity lunch

    by thatpussywonteatitself

    also, Donald Jr. is a Jack Ass. "I know everything"" FUCK YOU! Everything my Ass!

    Sinbad was funny. Sharon was great. Lauper had balls to call BullShit on Trump's comments on Rosie.

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  • Mar 15, 2010 6:48:27 AM CDT

    Holly Robinson Peete

    by kimrae1977

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005372/

    Her work goes back to 1979. People might not know her name, but they know her face.

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  • Mar 15, 2010 10:21:13 AM CDT

    Summeeeeeer Saaaaanderrrrs!

    by daggor

    She is Le Smokin', as the French say. Never saw her compete in athletics, but her short stint on some stupid Nick quiz show made a part of the 90's a bit more tolerable.

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  • Mar 15, 2010 10:23:19 AM CDT

    Leifer

    by katet19

    Talented writer etc. but not ugly? She looks like Dennis Leary in a wig. Awful. I found my self a bit surprised to be thinking about tossing it in Lauper. Chubby? no maam jusssst right.

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  • Mar 15, 2010 1:51:24 PM CDT

    Donald Jr. ....

    by itchy

    said that he knew everything while laughing. He was making a joke. He was actually pretty funny last night ... especially when he was giving Donald grief about old ladies finding him attractive. The Donald's kids actually seem pretty down to earth and smart. And Ivanka is one epic piece of ass.

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  • Mar 15, 2010 2:11:01 PM CDT

    Michael Johnson and Selita Ebanks

    by harrigan

    Herc you're obviously not a straight man if you don't know these two

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  • Mar 15, 2010 7:13:29 PM CDT

    Summer Sanders...

    by darthcorleone

    ...has two more Olympic gold medals and four more total Olympic medals than you'll ever have. "Who?" indeed.

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  • Mar 15, 2010 7:30:34 PM CDT

    @Harrigan

    by incomplete gamer

    I consider myself to be a straight man (as does my girlfriend), but I don't know who Selita Ebanks is. Sorry, not everybody looks at and reads the same things. It's good that you are confident enough in your sexuality to label others, though. Class act.

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  • ...is that she didn't say one single funny thing all night. Not one. I also hate how ugly women automatically assume that being ugly means they are smarter than attractive women. The hotter women on last night's episode seemed to have more going on upstairs than she did, and I agree that Lauper is kinda hot for a dumpy woman. But compared to those other women, trust me, Leifer's ugly. Maybe at Caroline's comedy hour she's the best looking comic in the room...which is like being the skinniest person at a Dunkin' Donuts.

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