Talk show hosts

karen7 said:
He slagged off jade goody before she was cold and had not been buried,he is a snobby ****
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Jade Goody did represent everything that was wretched and paltry about the UK. She was chav personified. Awful human being who was exploited and made infamous.
 
peoffrey said:
Jade Goody did represent everything that was wretched and paltry about the UK. She was chav personified. Awful human being who was exploited and made infamous.
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Maybe but it didn't need saying a couple of days after dying of cancer aged 27,she also did the best by her kids even when she was dying
 
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Parky was OK but he was so grovelling and fawning to his guests, telling them how wonderful they were and laughing at their feeblest "comic" remarks..

Anyway, chat shows now are simply ways of promoting the "guest"'s latest film/TV show/ book/play. Very few are interesting in themselves.Largely because showbiz folk live in a kind of bubble of egotistical self-esteem and do not comprehend the real world.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Don't know if this really merits its own thread, but we'll see if it touches a nerve.
I've been skipping around on Youtube looking at snippets from talk shows. More than usual, for the obvious reason. I don't own a tv and have never in my life owned one (this feels a bit like the formal declaration “I am not now and never have been a member of the Communist Party” that you used to have to sign to get into the United States. It is true, though).
I find myself quite critical of most of the hosts. Very few actually know how to listen, and when to put the question, and how to put it. How to draw their guests out of themselves. They seem to think that, well, really, it's about them. Letterman was one of the worst offenders in that respect. But I can't really stand any of the North American hosts. Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon seem to have nothing about them that interests me, and they're very gushy with their guests, I find.
Charlie Rose is pretty good, in a serious and even sombre kind of way. Not a lot of laughs, there, but then, that's not what he's about.
As for the Brits. I couldn't stand Norton at first, although I've grown used to his general style, and I must say he's good at thinking on his feet, and does genuinely seem to like his guests (even when there's some that he must, surely, dislike). In any case, he's either very curious about others, or an expert at faking it.
I cannot, at any price, take Jonathan Ross. Even one minute of him sets my teeth on edge.
Being of a generation that grew up with him, I thought Parky wasn't bad, although I did get tired of that Yorkshire drone, after (what seemed like) decades. He became just part of tv furniture (my family owned a tv, of course, and I had an overdose of it from childhood onwards).
Who do people like and dislike?
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I hate the whole format.

I have absolutely no interest at all in celebrities, full of their own self importance and all too liberal and politically correct in their views. Plus they’re boring cunts.

Very few characters who I’d be interested in listening to but they’d never get on to the talk shows because the PC agenda of them would never allow it
 
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Big Swifty said:
Parky was OK but he was so grovelling and fawning to his guests, telling them how wonderful they were and laughing at their feeblest "comic" remarks..

Anyway, chat shows now are simply ways of promoting the "guest"'s latest film/TV show/ book/play. Very few are interesting in themselves.Largely because showbiz folk live in a kind of bubble of egotistical self-esteem and do not comprehend the real world.
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Yet they’re all quick to comment on the real world and telling everyone how they should act and why they should think and say.

Ricky Gervais had it right at the latest Golden Globes (especially the last bit!):


Fucking spot on, Ricky!
 
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