Stephen Colbert devoted a segment to his show on Tuesday to the irony of ironies: Amazon, about to acquire MGM, would be gaining a studio that owned The Apprentice, and with it the long-sought after holy grail for anti-Donald Trump activists: outtakes from the show.The would mean that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, a frequent Trump target, would effectively control the rights to potentially embarrassing and perhaps even incendiary footage.“Holy mother of DVD extras!
The private footage of a TV billionaire is going to belong to an actual billionaire,” Colbert said.But it’s unclear, and a bit confusing, as to whether Amazon’s acquisition would give it the right to the outtakes.
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