Flipping through the channels a couple days ago, I had the misfortune of seeing a bit of his show. It was apparently about little girls who are incredibly embarrassed by their inappropriately-acting mothers. First, he’d start with a sympathetic talk with the 8 or 9-year old girls about the problems they’re having…and then in full fanfare, he’d bring out the mothers acting out their burlesque-type behavior to the extreme. The girls would break down into tears and Maury would try to console them.
So basically, he was trying to get ratings by making little girls cry.
What an ass. What a moronic, hypocritical, 2-cracked ass. (I dunno, but it sounds insulting).
Yeah, he’s right up there. All those mid-afternoon shows are just designed to cater to the at home welfare moms that live in their trailer park about to be consumed by a tornado. They lick that stuff up. I guess it makes some people feel that “Hey, there are some people worse off than me!”.
I especially love the commercials that are on during those shows, like for credit cards and shady car broker places.
“Get the car/credit you deserve!!”. Hell, if they deserved it they would have gotten one via the regular way everyone else with a 1/2 decent credit rating would. The obviously deserve jack shit if they have to go to these people for credit.
Thank the Pink Foreskin, I have successfully avoided ever watching these shows. However, I couldn’t avoid one once. I was at the doctor’s, and one was on the waiting room television, and all the waiting patients were watching avidly. The subject: “Black women are pissed off because they don’t like black men to date white women.” It was a series of black women yelling at white women because the white women were “stealing their men and erasing their culture.” I found it painfully stupid and embarrassing, but all the other patients were enraptured. What a waste of space! I think it was Sally Jessie Raphael.
Maury was on “The Daily Show” (back before J. Stewart) and was going through the “five questions” segment that ended each interview.
When they got to the final question, it was “What should everybody do to have fun tonight?”, to which Maury replied “Oh, they should do what I do- wang Chung tonight!”
I almost peed my pants, I laughed so hard!
So, schmuck he may be, but he certainly showed a good sense of humor that night.
Oh, come on. Don’t you just love those “Wild teen girls get sent to boot camp” episodes that he shows several times a week? Where the girls’ entire conversation consists of “You don’t know me. Shut up”. Then some Sargent dude comes in, screams in their faces, and viola! they’re completely reformed! :rolleyes:
Unfortunately, Maury is the only thing on while I’m getting dressed for work, so I end up seeing it sometimes (the only other option is the 3 millionth rerun of The Golden Girls - what a choice :rolleyes:).
16 years ago, I was on a lay off, and home with my nearly new born son. I lived for the mail and paper to be delivered, just to break up the action.
I channel surfed one day, paused on Sally Jessie, in time to hear her say “next up: Former nuns who’ve undergone a sex change” :rolleyes: Never have gone back to them since.
I’ve watched these when I’m home, sick or something.
How sad it must be to find out on TV that you’re not the father of a child you’ve been raising, or that your spouse is cheating on you (with your mother), or that your teenage daughter has had sex with 30 different guys.
All those people should be sent home with coupons redeemable for several years’ worth of counseling. If they weren’t messed up before the show, they will be afterward. The psychologists that they have on those shows sure give the profession a bad name.
jerry springer is funny because it really is so outlandish that it isn’t meant to be taken seriously-
but i think that scumbag sally jessie rafael takes the cake-she did a show about 12 and 13 year old girls who wore extremely sexy clothing and of course the dirtbag asshole has these young girls WEAR the clothes on her show instead of just bringing them along and holding them up for the camera-
this ratings whore then pretends to be shocked and tells them how disgusting and sleazy they look-i went to her web site and emailed her and her crew the nastiest letter i could to tell them how i felt about it-
i swear to god i have fantasies about reaching into the tv and grabbing that moronic piece of shit by the throat-
i think her whole existence is about ratings and making more money-and im sure she is very rich right now-
what a disgusting human being-
ok im done-and i wouldnt really grab her by the throat, would i?
Someday, a talk show will bring on as the guests all the losers who started the exploitative talk show cicuit.
We’ll get to watch the “Maurys” of the world recount how their lives went into the toilet, and how drugs and alcohol were things they would always have to live and struggle with.
Host: “Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Maury Povich and his wrinkly old ass…[applause].”
Host: “Now Maury, we have some special surrrprrrissse guests for you. Here are all the former fat kids you exploited on your ‘My baby weighs 100 Pounds’ episodes! …Only they ain’t fat kids anymore, Maury, they’re enoumormous 1,000 pound adults who have a strange fetish: They like to sit on old wrinkled talk show hosts and mess their giant diapers! [Wooo!!! Applause!!!]”
If I feel like watching the local channels in the late afternoon I have a choice of Rosie O’Donnell, Sally Jessy Rafael and Oprah. Rosie always talks like a child and sings, she is out, Sally Jessy Rafael usually has teens on that are “out of control” and out comes sargeat so and so screaming in their faces or the psychologist lady does an instant analysis of what their problems are, Sally is out. I watch Oprah if I watch any at all, but if she starts in with the same bullshit then she is out.
I really miss Phil Donohue. Can’t we drag his ass out of retirement?!
I liked Oprah until the show started always being about her.
Don’t get me started on Sally. Oops! Too late!!
The thing that really pisses me off about Sally Jesse Raphael is that she’s dropped so low on television. I got a lot out of her talk radio show back in the 80’s. She used to be on AM radio late at night on a national show called talknet. She was awesome. Much hipper than most would even imagine. It was a listener call in show or sometimes she would have a guest speaker. I listened to her almost every night throughout my teenage years.
Then came her television show and her style turned to shit. A huge departure than was profoundly disappointing. Okay, well not “profoundly”, but I was pretty disappointed. What is with those red glasses anyway?
[Maury Povich Anecdote] After seeing him at a bar, my biology teacher once asked Maury to strip for her while she was extremely drunk. He refused ungraciously. [/Maury Povich Anecdote]
was supposed to be a :rolleyes: