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A Current Affair

Another day, another TV talk-show-host sexual harassment scandal. Not to be outdone by the loofah-inspired sexual peccadilloes of Fox News blowhard Bill O’Reilly, Maury Povich enters the sexual harassment fray this week. Bianca Nardi, a 28-year-old producer who has worked on Povich’s show since 2000, filed a suit for $100 million, claiming that the set of “Maury” was classic hostile work environment, “where hostility, intimidation, humiliation, ridicule, sexual harassment, as well as alcohol use, was explicit, rampant, pervasive and was condoned.”

In court papers, Nardi claims that Povich “who is married to Connie Chung” was carrying on a long-time illicit affair with another producer, Donna Benner Ingber. She also claims that Ingber’s task often got shifted down to her because Ingber showed up to work drunk and, presumably, was too preoccupied offering sexual favors to Povich to bother with her own producing duties. Nardi also claims that the show’s executive producer directed her to wear concealed cameras and microphones for undercover assignments “such as going to bars to secretly videotape married men agreeing to have sex with her,” and subjected her to sexually abusive and intimidating conduct, “including posing in sexually explicit positions, exposing her breasts and watching porn.”

After hearing about the lawsuit, a frustrated Bill O’Reilly was heard to go off in a rage, ordering two crates of falafels and going on an alcohol-fueled orgy bender with a host of “O’Reilly Factor” interns. Meanwhile, not to be beaten at his own game, Pat O’Brien snorted three lines of coke and broke out his cell phone and began leaving obscene and completely nonsensical voice mails on random producers’ phones.