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gmat
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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LARRY KING, you've got to be kidding 
King interviews Paul and Ringo recently, excerpt (this at a point in the interview where he had previously and repeatedly referred to Ringo as "George" -
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KING: Let's get to something current. How are you doing, Ringo?
STARR: Really well.
KING: Life treating you well?
STARR: You know, life is great.
KING: Everything good, the wife good?
STARR: The wife is great.
KING: The wife is gorgeous, too.
STARR: She's gorgeous and she's great.
KING: And you live in California, right?
STARR: No, I live in Monte Carlo.
KING: Oh.
STARR: I have a home in California.
KING: I knew that.
STARR: And I have a home in England, of course, but, that's where we live.
KING: With the swells.
STARR: Yes.
KING: And Paul, how are you adjusting to what was tumultuous times?
MCCARTNEY: I'm OK. Thank you, Larry. Thank you for asking. I'm doing surprisingly well.
KING: I mean, that had to be rough.
MCCARTNEY: It is currently rough.
KING: Still rough.
MCCARTNEY: It is very rough, yes. But I don't talk about it, and that helps.
KING: That's fair enough. But life is -- aside from that ...
MCCARTNEY: Life is good. Life is good. Life is wonderful, and with friends like these, who needs life?
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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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Carson's a legend.
I've been a Letterman fan for 24 years.
Craig Ferguson is fun, but way too new on the scene to be considered a 'great.' |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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Carson. I watched him since the 60s. My favorite was with Ed Ames.
"I didn't even know you were Jewish."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=puhqz7jk2zM |
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Doogie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Hwaseong City
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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Hilarious!! Thanks Bluelake. That's exactly what I meant about Carson's great timing. He would let the audience react and just wait for the perfect time to get his joke in. |
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Doogie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Hwaseong City
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Howard Stern. Did anyone hear Scott Baio's interview? Classic. |
Where did you get it? |
I'd like to see that myself. How could Scott Baio be a classic interview? The guy hasn't done anything in years. He has dated a lot of Hollywood beauties, though. |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:55 am Post subject: |
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| LARRY KING, you've got to be kidding |
For sure. Larry King has to be the worst of them all. He seems to always ask the worst questions and avoid any humor or insight. |
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yushin
Joined: 14 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| Michael Parkinson... |
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beachbumNC
Joined: 30 May 2007
Location: Gumi
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:40 am Post subject: |
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LARRY KING HATERS:
oh come on. Larry King has been in the business for about ten thousand years. he knows what he's doing. EVERYBODY goes on Larry King. who else has had such a range of guests?
and okay, i can feel you on the controversy thing. but let's think about that: he appeals to a wide audience and frankly he's an old man. why should he bother with stirring the scat just to satisfy the odd Bill Maher fan who probably is going to change the channel anyway, and wind up getting, oh, 40 million people around the world to change the channel with them?
King asks interesting people interesting questions and appeals to a very wide range of people. i don't think there's anything bad about that. |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:07 am Post subject: |
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| It's easy to get guests when the guest knows they won't be taken to task. Barbara Walters was famous for this. People would say, "Barbara Walters can get an interview with anyone." Yeah, for sure, but she never asks the really tough questions. Not easy for someone like Howard Stern to get guests when the first question is how long your johnson is, followed by, "prove it." |
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coler651
Joined: 24 Jul 2007
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| These all all horrible choices. I'll go with Michael Savage |
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Beej
Joined: 05 Mar 2005
Location: Eungam Loop
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Larry King is atrocious. "How are you?" "How's that going for you?" are typical questions. He grossly misspeaks every few minutes.
Anyone remember his weekly ( or is that weakly) newspaper column. Friends and I would read these and get huge laughs, for the wrong reasons.He would just throw out quips. I will never forget this gem " Peanut butter sandwiches: is there anything better?"
The only redeeming factor of his show is that he is live everyday, so this allows him to be very timely when the situation arises.
On top of that, he is an awful human being as I understand it. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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Hate to burst your bubbles but if we are including other languages, then this guy has been appearing on the TV screens of tens of thousands of Latinos for the last 40 plus years consistantly doing the same set-up week after week every Saturday on Univision. Who is this guy?? Well, here you go:
He's the host of Sabado Gigante - Don Francicso!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Francisco_(television_host)
There's also a lady that does an afternoon talk show on Univision for the last couple of decades but her name doesn't ring a bell. Maybe Cristina or something like that. She's up there. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| beachbumNC wrote: |
| EVERYBODY goes on Larry King. who else has had such a range of guests? |
As long as you don't think of him as doing journalism, which is his pretense. King asks a couple of quick token journalistic questions but let's every guest OFF THE HOOK, accepting whatever answer they give, before moving onto more frivolous, safe questions. Barbara Walters has more spine than he ever has. No wonder everyone goes on Larry King: He's easy in interviews.
Think of Larry King as a clown and his show a circus and he's .... great! |
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