{"id":65319,"date":"2025-10-10T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/65319\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:26:09","slug":"great-job-internet-see-steve-harvey-as-daytime-tv-don","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/65319\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Job, Internet!: See Steve Harvey as daytime TV don"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years before toxic workplace allegations<\/a> against Ellen DeGeneres hit the mainstream, there was the memo. In contrast to the largely anonymous second-hand accounts that staffers were expected to avoid looking DeGeneres in the eye, Steve Harvey just came right out and told his employees to leave him alone. \u201cI promise you I will not entertain you in the hallway, and do not attempt to walk with me. If you\u2019re reading this, yes, I mean you,\u201d he said in a memo to staff of his eponymous daytime television show, leaked in 2017<\/a>. \u201cEveryone, do not take offense to the new way of doing business. It is for the good of my personal life and enjoyment.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of this is dramatized in the new short film appropriately titled The Memo. Aaron Coleman plays Steve Harvey puffing on a cigar and clacking away on a typewriter in black-and-white like he\u2019s in Citizen Kane. His staffers, meanwhile, innocently plan a birthday party for him complete with a Steve look-a-like cake\u2014\u201dThey even got the glimmer in his eye,\u201d one staffer says fondly. But is that a cheerful glimmer, or a menacing one? If you\u2019re familiar with the memo, you can imagine how the rest goes down. After all, Harvey hates being \u201cambushed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The short film comes from Lamar+Nik<\/a>, the directing, writing, and producing duo composed of Jesse Lamar High and Nik Harper. The pair have done other short films, commercials, and music videos with the likes of Leon Bridges, The Shins, Husbands, Taylor Bennett, and MNEK. They describe The Memo as a \u201cpassion project,\u201d and it\u2019s certainly a reminder of just how<\/a> many<\/a> daytime TV shows are toxic or just plaid kooky behind the scenes. You can check out the short film below.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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