I didn’t watch him this year. Did he look anything like this?
I couldn’t agree with you more. The word “retarded” has a few definitions, and they’re not very hard to understand, and as someone who has appeared retarded on many occasions, I can say that time is better spent on interpreting the word correctly within its context.
Also, etv78, maybe you did it wrong. I was in a raucous tavern when the ball dropped and couldn’t hear a word, and I thought Dick looked great, and I remember him from the $25,000 pyramid, and the $10,000 one too, and American Bandstand, and I thought he looked great all along, and that is how I will remember him until he starts looking shitty, and I want to be like him when I grow up, and I hope you do too.
Well, I’m glad he’s still doing it, because when he dies, Seacrest will take over the whole thing and I’ll have to stop watching.
This. He does what he can and leaves the rest to the younger set. The broadcast featured a New Kids/Backstreet Boys reunion, fercryinoutloud–they obviously weren’t interested in folks at the top of their game. Dick Clark is an icon, and he should do this for as long as he’s comfortable doing it. They certainly weren’t giving the viewers any other reasons to watch.
I’m much more upset about Jenny McCarthy’s presence. Would someone please shoot her?
It’s not antiquated, it’s still in current medical use, and there’s nothing insulting about it. It’s a specific medical diagnosis.
If y’all want to argue about the usage of the word “retarded,” please start a new thread.
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I would prefer Dick Clark, even as a vegetable counting down the numbers with eyeblinks, then to ever have to suffer through yet another New Years with Ryan Seacrest or Jenny McCarthy.
I thought he looked great. Of course, I thought he looked OK last year, but this year he was truly great.
So he’s got a slight speech impediment from the stroke, big fucking deal. He nailed the count this year and he looks good. So stop your bitching.
And the makeout session with his wife put all the younger presenters to shame. The man loves his job and loves that he can share that moment with his wife. So again, stop your bitching. Dick Clark is awesome.
It pretty much is:
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Even though it is a little sad, I love that Dick Clark is around a little bit on NYE. I wouldn’t give him loads of air time, but it is nice to see him - and he looks so happy!
Diane Rehm is an excellent example of someone who needs to hang up the towel. I’m sorry, but someone who has the voice/speech issues she has developed no longer belongs as the host of a radio talk show. Even though her brain is fine and she’s still a good journalist, she needs to get off my radio.
Oh, it practically is. And here they are, in reverse order.
Here is:
2009-10:
How did Dick Clark look this year?
2008-09:
2007-8:
2006-7:
Is Dick Clark finally getting old?
2005-2006:
Ah, beaten to the punch, but at least my have the titles! 
I had to look for it on YouTube and found it rather touching.
Here is the clipand if you pan forward to about 4:06 (immediately after the countdown), you can see they screen back to Clark and he seems like he is rather misty-eyed which made me weepy.
I think he was genuinely happy to be there and it made it that much more poignant for me.
I totally agree with you. He is the only reason that I watched last night. I’m glad that he continues to be out in the public eye even though he had the stroke. Yes, it’s sad that he isn’t as young or healthy as he used to be, but this is how life goes.
Of course, my view is that anyone over 80 can do pretty much whatever the hell they want. When you’ve made it to that age, you’ve earned it.
Maybe Dick was misty-eyed because that moron Ke$ha tarnished his perennially wholesome New Year’s tradition by paradoxically resolving “not to become a douchebag.” (2:50 on that clip.)
Now that was painful. Thanks for assaulting millions of ears, you snot-gargling twatwaffle.
I haven’t seen Guy in ages-is he still doing New years Eve concerts?
I’m thinking in the next few years Andy Cohen’s going to get big enough to take over that role. I didn’t watch his New Year’s Party last night but he’s everywhere these days and I don’t know many other TV personalities these days who are as…uh, personable as he is.
Who’s Andy Cohen?
He died in 1977.