This is fairly lame and yet still pitworthyish.
You Merkins may have had years of Martha, but whilst we’ve heard of her and know what she does, we haven’t until now had the dubious pleasure of seeing her host a TV show. I’m pretty sure it’s post jail tv, as her guests are mostly current. Now, I’m not one for plastic tv people ever, but Martha is shockingly bad. She has no idea about segways, her timing is awful, she doesn’t listen to her guests and often ignores their questions or comments, she dresses very homely for an ex-model, and my dog reads que cards better than she does. She uses halting speech to get her messages across and quite frankly, she is embarrassingly bad. Let’s not get into the crap that she makes.
Just watching her oral presentation skills makes me wonder how she built an empire in the first place. Am I a lone voice in my observations of this woman or have Americans been moaning about her for years?
Agreed. The first time I flipped to her housekeeping show, I thought it was a parody. She looked and sounded like she rolled out of bed with a hangover and just went straight to the set. I was a little shocked when I realized it was real.
I’m sure she’s just disappointed that cities weren’t re-designed around them the way some people thought they would.
Okay, what do I mean then?
“Segue.”
Thank you. Just so you know I’m not a complete idiot, we don’t have any kind of roading system that we call ‘segways’ either (well, those of us not roading engineers anyway, for all I know they use it all the time).
You’ve never heard of these?
Segways are the people movers, the odd lawn mower looking contraptions that you stand on and it goes. Bush fell OFF one awhile back.
Martha is a robot clone of a person–her motherboard must havea virus.
I never saw her host a talk show, but I thought it was hilarious when I flipped around to her cooking show one day and she totally freaked out the kids she had on as guests with her bewildering sternness. Then when she offered them her fresh baked treats they said “no thank you.”
Yes, Martha has an ill-at-ease presence on camera. She tries desperately to come across as welcoming but needs to have that stick implanted up her ass removed.
However. She’s not the worst tv host by a long shot. That prize might very well go to John McEnroe. I caught a few of his self-titled shows and they were cringe worthy. On his first show, he had STING as a guest, for the love of crackers, and still managed to blow it. I thought to myself, “Dude. You presumably KNEW Sting was going to be on the show. Would it have killed you to maybe think about some interesting questions and jot them down on a notecard?”
Sting was much more at ease. He’d make a kick ass tv host.
When is this from? I didn’t think she was too bad before prison, perhaps her skills slipped while in prison?
When is this from? I didn’t think she was too bad before prison, perhaps her skills slipped while in prison?
Many people (myself included) formed their opinion that she’s a bitch because of her TV personality, or lack thereof. Saturday Night Live has been lampooning her for years.
She doesn’t come across as a bitch, more like someone with few people skills and no presentation skills.
Her pale imitation version of The Apprentice was totally cringeworthy. She really does not know how to conduct herself in front of a camera.
She didn’t get where she is by being a good TV presenter, though. She did it by being a total cutthroat.
My definition of a bitch must be different than yours. When someone ignores their guest, and acts condescending to them, IMO they’re being a bitch.
Well, she seemed more incapable of talking to guest, talking to audience and making something at the same time. As someone has already mentioned she looks as if she’s just got up with a hang-over - she also comes across as hard of hearing. So if the above mentioned behaviours were in someone who didn’t look totally out of their skill level depth, then yes, a bitch, otherwise, just bumbling fool.
I take it you don’t get Tony Danza in Kiwi Land.
I remember watching Letterman on an airplane once when he had Martha Stewart on as a guest. I couldn’t believe it. He was trying to crack jokes and be funny when she was explaining to him how to do something and she was getting visibly pissed. At one point she actually said “pay attention!” He looked like a schoolboy who just got reamed by one of the nuns.
That was the day I formed the opinion that Ms. Stewart is a major bee-yotch.
Heh. I came in here to post that. I’ve been meaning for months to post a “who’s worse - Tony Danza or Martha Stewart?” thread. They’re both just awful.