# Is Primetime Glick funny or not? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270 "2002-12-17T05:46:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270/21 "2002-12-17T20:09:46Z")
Another vote for when it’s funny it’s hilarious and when it doesn’t work you want to poke your eyes out. ---
**Author:** ![ForumBot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@ForumBot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForumBot)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270/22 "2002-12-17T22:14:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by singular1 \* > \*\*I like it, but I keep missing it. Martin Short was being interviewed (on The Daily Show, I think), and he mentioned that only once did someone get pissed and walk out of the interview. Anybody know who this was? \*\* Conan O’Brian ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270/23 "2002-12-17T22:15:21Z")
Although I don’t watch it very frequently, I’m with the crowd that says it’s hit or miss, but when it hits it’s great. However, I think it rarely is as good as the Glick segments Short used to do on his talk show. (Which was often itself a very surreal experience.) –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270/24 "2002-12-17T22:40:53Z")
I don’t think it was Conan, but I’ve never seen Conan on it. I do remeber Jay Mohr walking off though. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270/25 "2002-12-17T23:04:58Z")
Conan did walk out. To see the guests check out TV Tome. Conan walked since Jiminy kept answering his cell phone to talk to his kids and wife. I’m sure it was all scripted. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270/26 "2002-12-18T16:10:56Z")
Back when it was just a segment on his talkshow, I used to wish that they would make it its on show. As soon as I heard about the new show, though, I knew they ruined the whole idea. The name change alone reflected this. On the Martin Short show, the Glick segment was called “La-La-Wood”, a corny entertainment news show with a slightly dull host who was completely in love with all things Hollywood. Once it became “Prime Time Glick”, it was a talk show with a self-centered host who recognizes himself as the star of the show, rather than the guests. His relentless and seemingly genunine fawning on “La-La-Wood” was what made it so funny; on “Glick”, he actually makes jokes at the expense of his guests instead of treating them like gods. Now that Glick is dead, I’m into the “We Love Showbiz” segment on Daily Show and Onion’s Jackie Harvey. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270/27 "2002-12-18T16:36:58Z")
I was in hysterics at his interview with Adam Baldwin on Saturday morning- Glick discussing how the Blacklist has been given a bad name & Sen Joe McCarthy was his hero & Baldwin talking about having a three-way with Senators Feinstein & Boxer ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270/28 "2002-12-18T17:48:18Z")
Martin short has never, and will never, be funny. Except in Jungle2Jungle, somehow. That was a decent flick. ---
**Author:** ![beajerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@beajerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beajerry)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270/29 "2002-12-18T17:53:56Z")
It was funnier when he did it on his short-lived talk show. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Frink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Mr.Frink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Frink)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270/30 "2002-12-19T01:49:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pizzabrat \* > \*\* Now that Glick is dead, I’m into the “We Love Showbiz” segment on Daily Show and Onion’s Jackie Harvey. \*\* Whatdayamean? Has the show been cancelled? Or am I just missing something here? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270/31 "2002-12-19T02:17:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flymaster \* > \*\*Martin short has never, and will never, be funny. > > Except in Jungle2Jungle, somehow. That was a decent flick. \*\* He almost approached something like humor in \*_Get Over It_ too. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270/32 "2002-12-19T05:37:45Z")
Is it true he actually interviewed Gore Vidal? Vidal must really be a fallen media whore if he consented to that. I loved what Glick told Nathan Lane, though, because it’s what most talk-show-hosts are thinking when they’re interviewing anybody who’s not A list: “Nathan, you have such an incredible and wonderful career, and even though it’s one I’m not the least bit familiar with or interested in you deserve all the kudos you’ve gotten.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-primetime-glick-funny-or-not/143270.md?page=1)