He’s been getting better each year and probably having to work like hell to do so. I thought he was much, much better this year.
He needs to go to pasture. Three consecutive years of Dick Clark’s Cringe-inducin’ New Year’s Buzzkill can’t be helping their ratings.
The worst part was the kissing between him and his wife(?). :eek: They switched back to the other people, and I swear I could still hear them sucking face, like somebody screwed up the audio feed.
All the coverage sucked. I didn’t watch CNN, but Fox seemed to have a camera crew that didn’t figure out to focus on the ball at midnight. CBS seemed to be showing a Letterman rerun and didn’t cover New Years at all. We usually watch a local station who covered the party at a hotel and the fireworks - lame but fun - but they were showing Sex and the City reruns this year. My kids were confused at who a lot of the acts were in New York - the Vegas ones they knew at least.
Someone should run Guy Lombardo repeats. 
Ahh, ya bunch of pansies. See if you’re still up partying at midnight when you’re an 80-year old stroke survivor. “Oh my god, we’re forced to look at an OLD person on New Year’s Eve! How depressing!” But see, here’s the thing: you don’t get to determine what America looks at on New Year’s Eve. Dick Clark gets to determine what America looks at on New Year’s Eve. Why? Because he’s Dick Clark, that’s why.
Even at 80 years old, Dick Clark still embodies the raw leathery tenacity that earned him the nickname “World’s Oldest Teenager.” Because, lest we forget the signature characteristic of teenagers everywhere: they’re too cool to care what you think. They are reckless and tactless and in your face and they glory in it. And yes, recklessness means different things at different ages. When you’re 15, maybe it’s extreme skateboarding, or petty acts of vandalism, or listening to that rock-and-roll music. When you’re 80, maybe it’s staying up until midnight amid a crowd of screaming people and mega-bass stage amplifiers. You think Clark’s doctor thought that was a great idea? Fuck no! And yet Dick was probably all like, “Screw it! Try and stop me. You just keep my lungs inflated until the end of the night.”
You all may be too old to remember the importance of such things; but Dick Clark isn’t that mature yet, squares.
Ladies and gentlemen, let’s give a warm hand to Dick Clark’s publicist.
They started doing that years ago.
I’m proud of him. I hope if I ever have a stroke, I can still host a huge NYE party. Of course, I’m not convinced it was a stroke. I still say it was his core programming malfunctioned and they had to reload him from a flawed disk.
That man’s not human. He’s gotta be a robot. A tenacious and charming robot.
Seriously, he’s starting to look like the combined efforts of Madame Toussaud and Disney’s animatronics shop.
“Raw and leathery” is a good choice of terms but probably not in the way you intended.
Lately he really sounds and moves like an 80-year-old. That’s fine, except he looks to be in his early 50’s, and his face only moves below the upper lip. I have no problem with seniors rocking it as long as they don’t have eerily ageless plastic faces.
Dick Clark has never been “raw and leathery”. He’s always had smooth-skinned, boyish looks, which is why he’s frequently been called the world’s oldest teenager.
I heard the same – at least five times! – and interpreted it more as “This is my final time”. No?
Eventually he will retire. Whats wrong with Ryan Seacrest? He does a fine job. All the position requires is counting down, yes?
He’s more overexposed than an all-white photograph. Otherwise, nothing, really.
But if he meant that this would be his final year of hosting the ball drop, don’t you think he’d have said something along the lines of “one last time?”
“One more time” still seems to me that he’s saying something along the lines of “Let’s do this again.”
Missed the edit window:
And going back and watching the video, Ryan Seacrest actually kicked it off to Clark by saying, “Dick, are you ready to do it one more time for me?” So DC said “One more time” in an obvious reply to Seacrest.
Aww, I thought he did good. I hope he keeps at it as long as he can because I like that there’s a real face to the problems he’s been exposed to and not allowing himself to be stigmatized by it.
Hang in there Dick! All my New Year’s Eves belong to you.
Did he say pandemonium? He used to every year.
No question about that. Despite my obvious discomfort with seeing him host, which I don’t believe stems from discomfort around similarly or more severely impaired people (both my grandfathers had worse strokes and I never felt uncomfortable around them after it happened), it really looked like he wanted to be there and was having as much fun as the rest of them. I guess being the cynical fellow that I am, I just couldn’t help wondering if the suits at ABC were using him as a ratings ploy.
Dick Clark’s hosting was very touching to me. I was moved by his obvious effort to make it through and I was rooting for him.
I’m glad he’s still around to do the countdown. I thought the suck-face with wife was sweet.
My problem was with Kelly Whatever’s use of the word “awesome” as a response to each and every comment the interviewees made.
“I’m from Texas.”
“Awesome.”
I’m engaged."
“Awesome.”
I’m cold."
“Awesome.”