Is he an Annoying self-important over-confident unfunny twerp?
Or is it just me?
Ummmmm…Who is he?
You talking about that unctuous, cringe-inducing, way-too-self-serious, shamelessly self-promoting junior varsity cable-access TV “talk show host” with delusions of making the Big Time?
Never heard of him.
Yes, he’s irritating, but he has, through dogged determination, become irritating in a polished and professional way!
Last July the Washington Post Magazine ran an update on Colleen Haskell (of Survivor fame) and at the time she was working behind the scenes on the *The Michael Essany Show *
In the article, it was clear that the production crew fund Mike and his folks a little weird. In fact it turned my view of the show 180 & I was actually shocked that they were as mean about it as they were … I mean, it is ok for us in CS and Reviewers to yell “weirdo” and “tries too hard” it is very different for the folks actually running it to do so. I felt sorry for him.
Here is a link to the article – it took a long time to download for me and is mostly about Haskell – not the Essany show – but there is enough about it that it is not highjack
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A61947-2003Jul15¬Found=true