# Andy Rooney Says Goodbye To 60 Minutes This Sunday **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney-says-goodbye-to-60-minutes-this-sunday/597821 "2011-09-27T23:36:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney-says-goodbye-to-60-minutes-this-sunday/597821/41 "2011-10-02T23:07:53Z")
“How it feels to bomb Germany” by Andy Rooney in \*Stars & Stripes \*2/27/43 [http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/rooney/wilhelmshaven.html](http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/rooney/wilhelmshaven.html) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney-says-goodbye-to-60-minutes-this-sunday/597821/42 "2011-10-03T00:12:55Z")
“I don’t answer the people who write me – they’re not my kind of people.” What an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney-says-goodbye-to-60-minutes-this-sunday/597821/43 "2011-10-03T00:23:35Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I’d be remiss if I didn’t post [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KglSPl7g14Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player) of Andy being interviewed by Ali G. “Does you” notice a familiar name in one of the writer credits? No, why? Who is it? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney-says-goodbye-to-60-minutes-this-sunday/597821/44 "2011-10-03T00:26:02Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I’d be remiss if I didn’t post [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KglSPl7g14Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player) of Andy being interviewed by Ali G. “Does you” notice a familiar name in one of the writer credits? You mean “Cohen”? That’s a good clip that shows Rooney in a good light and Ali G. as an unfunny pseudo-buffoon, not worthy of parody. Sorry, I’m not an Ali G. fan, in any incarnation. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney-says-goodbye-to-60-minutes-this-sunday/597821/45 "2011-10-03T00:55:05Z")
From my twitter feed: “In his 60 Mins. farewell., Andy Rooney basically called Harry Reasoner a lazy drunk, then told fans to piss off. Did you mist up?” @MarkHarrisNYC ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney-says-goodbye-to-60-minutes-this-sunday/597821/46 "2011-10-03T01:30:46Z")
I thought Andy was quite complimentary of Reasoner, aside from calling him lazy and a drinker. He still said working for Harry was way better than writing gags for Arthur Godfrey, who was one of of the least liked men in show business. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney-says-goodbye-to-60-minutes-this-sunday/597821/47 "2011-10-03T01:33:44Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > No, why? Who is it? Seth Rogan ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney-says-goodbye-to-60-minutes-this-sunday/597821/48 "2011-10-03T01:52:30Z")
Ah, Andy’s a good guy. I don’t think I’ll be alive when I’m 92, so there. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney-says-goodbye-to-60-minutes-this-sunday/597821/49 "2011-10-03T04:30:52Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > That’s a good clip that shows Rooney in a good light and Ali G. as an unfunny pseudo-buffoon, not worthy of parody. > > Sorry, I’m not an Ali G. fan, in any incarnation. I agree with this which almost makes me sad because I’ve never liked Rooney. He realized that Ali G was probably a set-up or possibly an idiot and either way he didn’t want to play. I can’t stand Sasha Baron Cohen’s “let’s humiliate people” humor, even when it’s against Bob Barr or others I don’t like; to me it’s about as funny as running up and making armpit farts in front of them. ---
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney-says-goodbye-to-60-minutes-this-sunday/597821/50 "2011-10-03T06:31:59Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I agree with this which almost makes me sad because I’ve never liked Rooney. He realized that Ali G was probably a set-up or possibly an idiot and either way he didn’t want to play. I can’t stand Sasha Baron Cohen’s “let’s humiliate people” humor, even when it’s against Bob Barr or others I don’t like; to me it’s about as funny as running up and making armpit farts in front of them. While I find Ali G’s pretend-idiot persona kind of funny in itself, I completely agree that Rooney comes of reasonably well in the interview. From Rooney’s perspective, he is being interviewed by someone who is borderline retarded, unprofessional, incompetent, disrespectful, or just an asshole. And while I find Ali G funny, in truth he is certainly an asshole, at the very least borderline unethical, setting up interviews under false pretenses, lying, purposefully deceiving the interviewee and trying to sabotage and invoke response. Sure, it would be ideal if Andy Rooney could be a bit more light-hearted about having his time wasted by a deceptive or incompetent boor, but he has every right to be offended and perturbed. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney-says-goodbye-to-60-minutes-this-sunday/597821/51 "2011-10-03T14:20:40Z")
[Gore Vidal](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPqWG5m7uEg) also came off well on Ali G. He played it straight for a few questions then clearly caught on and plays along, even [rapping](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCXBuoCDcrI&NR=1) to the extent a fat 80 something uber patrician is capable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-rooney-says-goodbye-to-60-minutes-this-sunday/597821.md?page=2)