# Larry King retires from Larry King Live **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 30, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025 "2010-06-30T02:59:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [June 30, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/1 "2010-06-30T02:59:25Z")
Honestly, he’s been making a lot of mistakes and seems distracted over the past few years. I remember when he interviewed Stephen Curtis Chapman’s family about the daughter who was killed in a car accident and he kept getting their daughter’s name wrong. A lot. Anyway, maybe it’s time for him to quit. [You can read his statement here.](http://larrykinglive.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/29/statement-from-larry-king/) Thoughts? ---
**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:** [June 30, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/2 "2010-06-30T03:02:32Z")
By the way, other than a 5 minute shift, didn’t Johnny Carson host the same show with the same time slot for 29 years? Isn’t that longer? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/3 "2010-06-30T08:04:15Z")
He is far from my favorite TV personality, but I feel I must respect his contributions to the industry. Things might not be totally different without him, but yet they also wouldn’t be the same. He has worked hard, and I believe that deep down he is a fundamentally good man. May the rest of his last season go well, and may he especially enjoy all those little league games. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/4 "2010-06-30T11:50:06Z")
My family got cable TV late in life, and I’ve never ever seen an LK interview, ever. I usually only see him when his show is mentioned on other shows or parodied. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/5 "2010-06-30T13:05:10Z")
He was a senescent buffoon in the 1980s – it’s about bloody time. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/6 "2010-06-30T13:25:14Z")
I’ve enjoyed his many interviews over the years. SO many, from every blathering starlets to heads of corporations to politicos to humanitarians. It just won’t be the same any more without Larry King. I don’t know if there will be a replacement for him, or even an interview show at 9 p.m. on CNN in the future. (myself, I like the idea of rotating hosts. Ryan Seacrest, Katie Couric, whoever can interview intelligently.) But yeah - time to go, Larry. Not only does he have some issues in his personal life that need attention, he is not in the best physical shape, and his mind seems indeed to be wandering. The last show I saw, he was interviewing Lady GaGa. I don’t know which was worse, interviewer or interviewee - they were both rambling and distracted, and I thought, why even bother? ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/7 "2010-06-30T13:38:47Z")
To the Dalai Lama: “As a Muslim, what do you think of Jesus Christ?” The man is a moron. One of the worst ever on television. How he lasted this long is a testament to the stupidity of his viewers. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/8 "2010-06-30T14:45:00Z")
Don’t let the doorknob hit you in the ass, Larry. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/9 "2010-06-30T14:59:07Z")
> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#): > > To the Dalai Lama: “As a Muslim, what do you think of Jesus Christ?” > > The man is a moron. One of the worst ever on television. How he lasted this long is a testament to the stupidity of his viewers. No way. Please tell me he did not really ask that. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/10 "2010-06-30T15:39:13Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > No way. Please tell me he did not really ask that. Yes. My personal “He should have been put out to pasture ages ago” moment occurred… well, ages ago. 2002, or thereabouts, when he asked the victim of a horrifically violent rape “What was going through your mind as he was making love to you?” They could have stuck some random dementia patient up there and had the same quality of interviews. It’s incomprehensible that his career lasted so song. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/11 "2010-06-30T16:34:28Z")
> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#): > > To the Dalai Lama: “As a Muslim, what do you think of Jesus Christ?” This is the closes I can find to it. [Is this a holy year in Muslim faith?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dno0xxV09Lc) ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/12 "2010-06-30T16:57:39Z")
Larry King is famous for not preparing for his interviews. He says this is so he can ask the type of questions that normal people might ask. I think he’s just too damn lazy to do his job well. All I can figure is that he has good connections. He certainly didn’t succeed because of talent. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/13 "2010-06-30T19:13:41Z")
> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#): > > The man is a moron. One of the worst ever on television. How he lasted this long is a testament to the stupidity of his viewers. This. I’ve never understood his staying power. He is indeed a moron of epic proportions, and he’s a very poor interviewer. Learning today that he has been on CNN for 25 years shocked me. This fact alone indicates one of only two possibilities: He has pictures of Ted Turner feltching a goat :eek: or the conspiracy theorists are right and the Jews **DO own and control the media.** \* :dubious: The guy’s skull is shaped like the head of a praying mantis. I can’t even \*\*\*look \*\*\*at him without thinking about buying a can of Raid. Compound that with his lack of preparation, and you have one of the greatest mysteries of longevity in TV history. It would be nice (if CNN is going to keep the timeslot in an interview format) to see them put someone like Charlie Rose there. \*\*\*\*\* **FTR, this was meant to be a _joke_, so hold your anti-dentite comments.** ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/14 "2010-06-30T21:52:42Z")
I wonder if he is also leaving his other gig, as host of “Tales From The Crypt”? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/15 "2010-06-30T22:00:59Z")
Considering he died in 1988 and what’s been on TV all this time is his only slightly revivified remains he’s had a good run. I wonder if this has anything to do with his recent announcement of a 24th divorce followed by reconciliation; if so I would think the last thing that would save a Larry King marriage is more togetherness time. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/16 "2010-07-01T00:16:41Z")
From a previous thread: > [@Someone finally takes on Oprah](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-finally-takes-on-oprah/498266/98): > > [CNN.com - Transcripts](http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/27/lkl.01.html) > > KING: Have you ever been addicted to drugs? > > HILTON: No. > > KING: Taken drugs. > > HILTON: No. > > KING: Never taken drugs? > > HILTON: No. > > King then goes on to ask her why there are so many stories about her, and she says that people make up crazy stuff. > > KING: Why didn’t you put a stop to this earlier? In other words, if you would read stuff, why didn’t you take an outlet to go on and say I don’t – I never use drugs? I don’t drink? > > HILTON: I don’t – I just feel like when you do that you put more attention to something. And when something is not true I just don’t pay attention to it because I know my friends and family know the true me. > > This from one of the biggest attention, um, whores in North America, routinely seen exiting clubs lit up, at least before her jailing. I don’t know about now. And King never brought up the fact that she’d actually been photographed smoking “hand rolled cigarettes.” > > A friend of mine had a small interview tv program for NHK in Japan, and I worked with him on his interviews. In that capacity, I went along to the CNN building in L.A., and Larry may have actually said “hi” to me. The friend asked him about the perception that he’s a softball pitcher, and he said that he feels that you should let people tell their story, and that you just let them. Which means that if they tell you a flat lie, apparently you just let it sail by. > > I see he’s uploaded these onto the net now. Wow. [The Bully! Pulpit Show Classics: Larry King](http://vimeo.com/4415652) Go to 13:20. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/17 "2010-07-01T03:42:45Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > He was a senescent buffoon in the 1980s – it’s about bloody time. Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/18 "2010-07-01T06:04:33Z")
If he’s retiring in 2010, he’s on my Death Pool list for 2011. I figure the only way he’s voluntarily retiring is because he got a very bad medical diagnosis. I will endeavor to assure the he doesn’t die a pointless death. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/19 "2010-07-01T07:08:41Z")
Is it wrong that the first thing that popped in my head was no more Larry King Game on the Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show? (I’m not going to link to the actual game, since it would be a bit gauche. But I can’t go mentioning the show without at least linking to the [archives](http://www.kevinpollakschatshow.com/archive/). It’s only spreading by word of mouth, so I’ve got to do my part. It’s got some nice long interviews, even if the host is a bit rambling in the intros.) ---
**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:** [July 1, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025/20 "2010-07-01T12:46:41Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Is it wrong that the first thing that popped in my head was no more Larry King Game on the Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show? What is the Larry King Game on Kevin Pollak’s show? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/larry-king-retires-from-larry-king-live/545025.md?page=2)