Don Mischer

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Don Mischer is an American television events producer and director.

Mischer has produced television programs since 1976, when he produced a special for Barbra Streisand. Other programs have included Kennedy Center Honors, the Emmy Awards, the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics, and programs for Bob Hope, Nell Carter, Christopher Reeve, the Pointer Sisters and Mikhail Baryshnikov. He also produced the The Wayne Brady Show and the halftime shows for Super Bowl XXXIX and Super Bowl XL in 2005 and 2006.

Mischer has won 13 Emmy Awards as director or producer, dating back to the 1980s and a broadcast of the Kennedy Center Honors.

[edit] 2004 Democratic National Convention

In 2004 he produced the Democratic National Convention. He was caught on microphone yelling out a profanity during the end of CNN's coverage of the convention. After John Kerry's acceptance speech, there were supposed to be balloon and confettis on the ground of the convention. However, Mischer was not satisfied with the results, and his displeasure was aired accidentally by CNN:

We need all of them coming down. Go balloons - balloons? What's happening balloons? There's not enough coming down! All balloons, what the hell! There's nothing falling! What the f—— are you guys doing up there? We want more balloons coming down, more balloons. More balloons. More balloons.