Triumph on NPR, channels O’Reilly on NPR

From November 2003:

O’REILLY: We’ve spent now, all right, 50 minutes of me defending defamation against me in every possible way, while you gave Al Franken a complete pass on his defamatory book. And if you think that’s fair, Terry, then you need to get in another business. I’ll tell you that right now. And I’ll tell your listeners, if you have the courage to put this on the air, this is basically an unfair interview, designed to try to trap me into saying something that Harper’s can use. And you know it and you should be ashamed of yourself. And that is the end of this interview.

Some time later, Robert Smigel appeared in-character as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog on the same show and blasted the host. “Did you treat Kermit the Frog like this when he was on your show?” Triumph the Insult Comic Dog asked NPR’s Terry Gross last on “Fresh Air.”

After Gross suggested that his use of the word “bitch” was controversial, Triumph went off on an extended spoof of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s smackdown of Gross’s selectively combative style (mainly when she gave Al Franken a 100% pass while giving O’Reilly a 100% grilling) on the show.