# Most Annoying T.V. Personality **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420 "2003-07-14T16:49:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/21 "2003-07-15T01:59:00Z")
I can’t stand that dorky guy from World’s Funniest Animals on Animal Planet. Can someone please write him a joke that isn’t lame? ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/22 "2003-07-15T02:12:39Z")
Sports: Dan Dierdorff, Bill Walton, Jim Rome News: Wolf Blitzer. Get off your “I was at the FIRST desert storm” high horse, dammit. Just report the news. Cartoons: Spongebob Squarepants. Please. Someone help me understand. Why do my children find this so amusing? Weekly shows: Toss up between Primetime Glick (ack) and Dennis Miller. He’s not funny any more. He’s just annoying. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/23 "2003-07-15T02:12:57Z")
Gilbert Gottfried. Without a doubt the World’s Most Irritating Human. StG ---
**Author:** ![schplebordnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@schplebordnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schplebordnik)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/24 "2003-07-15T03:36:57Z")
This lot: [http://www.dailybuzz.tv/](http://www.dailybuzz.tv/) The two guys are the worst. The pretty boy who tries to act “intellectual” while constantly pursing his lips, or the flayboyant beefy guy who thinks he’s funny in an “outrageous” way. All of this allegedly catering to a “hip” “young” crowd. It’s a real train wreck. Check it out some time. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/25 "2003-07-15T04:51:12Z")
Game Show addict that I am…I have to say Kennedy. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/26 "2003-07-15T07:22:09Z")
For me, a tossup between Jerry Seinfeld and Gilbert Gottfried. Either one’s appearance on my TV is simply not allowed. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/27 "2003-07-15T08:28:01Z")
Billy Mays and his damn **Oxy-Clean**. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/28 "2003-07-15T09:31:46Z")
In Ireland we get some godawful US program called “America’s funniest pets” or “Pets are so hilarious” or some other lame title. Who the HELL is the schmuck who presents that? He’s the most oleaginous, ingratiating, cheesy-smiled animal vegetable or mineral I have ever seen on television. On UK TV it’s a very very close battle between Gary Rhodes, Ainsley Herriot, Laurance Llewelyn-Bowen and that woman who presents You’ve Been Framed. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/29 "2003-07-15T11:27:54Z")
Graham Norton. God knows what would happen if I met him in real life. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/30 "2003-07-15T12:19:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by twickster \* > \*\*My nominee, however, is John Stossel. What a smug SOB he is. \*\* If it makes you feel better, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting devoted most of a magazine issue to this moron and his abuses of good journalistic practices. I have it, if you’re interested. Robin ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/31 "2003-07-15T12:30:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*In Ireland we get some godawful US program called “America’s funniest pets” or “Pets are so hilarious” or some other lame title. Who the HELL is the schmuck who presents that? He’s the most oleaginous, ingratiating, cheesy-smiled animal vegetable or mineral I have ever seen on television. \*\* I love that show, that is if you’re talking about “The Planet’s Funniest Animals” and [this guy](http://www.truedorktimes.com/0901/TDgallant.htm). I just tune out the talking a,v, or m and watch the cute animals. Anyway, cheesy and oleaginous as he is, the poor guy doesn’t have a chance with the script he’s forced to use. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/32 "2003-07-15T13:19:38Z")
She’s not quite on my annoying list, **Tengu** , but whenever Kennedy starts to look good to me, I take it a sign that I need to get out more. ---
**Author:** ![tullius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tullius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullius)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/33 "2003-07-15T13:42:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*Suze Orman. I don’t know where this bitch came from, but I hope she goes back there and off my TV screen real soon. \*\* Well said! And she can take Tony Robbins with her. (Maybe its the teeth that scare me.) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/34 "2003-07-15T13:50:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MsRobyn \* > \*\*If it makes you feel better, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting devoted most of a magazine issue to this moron and his abuses of good journalistic practices. I have it, if you’re interested. > > Robin \*\* Cool! Thanks! I’ll IM (or email) you later. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/35 "2003-07-15T14:21:40Z")
There’s a newscaster on [Fox 5 Morning News](http://www.fox5dc.com) here in Washington DC named Holly Morris. She’s so friggin annoying that as soon as I see her intros to her silly stand-up pieces my head starts to hurt. ---
**Author:** ![HumanStromboli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@HumanStromboli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HumanStromboli)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/36 "2003-07-15T19:53:46Z")
Speaking of DC-area broadcast personalities, I’ll go with NBC-4’s assclown of a sports anchor, George Michael. (No, the other one . . . ) I picture of this jerk can be found at: [http://www.nbcinternational.com/v2/domesticsyndication/gmindex.html](http://www.nbcinternational.com/v2/domesticsyndication/gmindex.html) I hate him, just \*despise \* him. He is, in every sense of the word, annoying. Just look at those thrice-capped teeth. If you could nudge a drill bit in there and didn’t mind drilling for days, I swear you could strike oil. He calls himself the dean of DC sports and he moderates these weekly panel shows, depending on the season. He really gets into the Redskins’ show, not so much the Wizards’ show. But he’s annoying just the same for both. With the former, he gets incredibly hyper-active, butting in every three seconds; with the latter, he fakes excitement for a mediocre team and everybody looks at him like he’s crazy. Wherever he is, he is sure to bring along his disturbingly loud laughter, which he rolls out at inopportune times. And, oh yeah, he gets to do play-by-play for Skins’ preseason games on NBC-4, and he sucks! Plus, he’s been doing sports highlights for 25 years now, and he still can’t provide a little sentence variety, maybe a couple pronouns instead of continually repeating a person’s full name. His typical game recap (told over game video) is: _Stephen Davis gets the hand-off. Stephen Davis sheds a tackle, and Stephen Davis is in the clear. Stephen Davis goes 34 yards for the Redskins’ touchdown. Man, whatta run by Stephen Davis._ And finally, there is the crapfest called “The George Michael Sports Machine” that might have infested your local station via the wonder of syndication. First, about the machine. Yes, there’s literally a sports machine, and Georgie literally punches the big green button to start the highlights. Then Georgie recaps the highlights in his trademark repetitive fashion. And, lest I forget, the highlights (done in super-slow motion) are supplemented by the most canned spectator “oohs” and “aaahs” and fake whistles and cracks of bats and all that stuff that immediately tells you it’s a crappy production. I don’t understand why the “Sports Machine” still exists in syndication. If you want sports highlights, try SportsCenter. If you hate SportsCenter but still want sports highlights, try the local news. (I suppose they are a sufficient number of people who want “national” sports highlights but still don’t get ESPN???) I know this isn’t “The Pit,” but oh George Michael, how I loathe you. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/37 "2003-07-15T20:42:28Z")
I was going to say Dick Vitale, but though I am not one of them, he seems to have his fan base. However, I defy anyone to tell me they like [Jim Gray](http://www.americansportscasters.com/images/gray.jpg). That guy is a total and complete waste of pixels. He tries to specialize in the “hard-hitting” sports questions, but comes across as a snivelling little weasel. I don’t even think other sports journalists like him. Players absolutely do not. Outside the world of sports, how could it possibly be anyone other than [this](http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=granitz&group=0341-199&photo=Events/0341-199/carrot_t.op&path=pgallery&path_key=Thompson,%20Scott%20%27Carrot%20Top%27) man? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Seeker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@The\_Seeker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Seeker)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/38 "2003-07-16T13:28:17Z")
I don’t know how my fellow Australian dopers feel but I despise Rove McManus. To me he’s a young Daryl Somers. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/39 "2003-07-16T17:41:23Z")
[Ann Kellan.](http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/kellan.ann.html) A science correspondent for CNN, she tends to be shown only in the wee small hours of the morning when I’m getting ready for work, specifically “Cool Science” on Headline News. This woman is neither a scientist nor a journalist. She hasn’t a clue about matters scientific and has the most annoying tendancy to ask nasty pointed questions of the people she interviews. Come on, lady! It’s fluff; an excuse for Joe Scientist to come show off his new book, toy, computer, whatever. And she rude! She asks as silly off topic question - Mr Scientist blinks like a deer in headlights and tries to get back on topic - and SHE KEEPS PRESSING “Why didn’t you answer my off topic question? I guess we can’t expect you to know everything, can we?” :mad: ARRRRHHHHHGGG! :mad: Like your worst science teacher in grade school, only with air time. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420/40 "2003-07-16T18:26:17Z")
Bob Saget is annoying, so is Joan Rivers. I’m not sure either one is the winner, but they deserve consideration. Oh, and so long, Michael Savage! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-t-v-personality/188420.md?page=3)