# Nobody tell Tony Danza, but his show was cancelled **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181 "2006-02-12T23:43:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/21 "2006-02-13T17:32:48Z")
I think it’s good that nobody is telling Danza his show is cancelled. See, he’ll continue to report to the set and he’ll _think_ he’s making his show. That way, he’ll be to busy to actually try to start yet another new show. As long as no one tells him the video is erased after every show and that it’s never actually aired, we’re all better off. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/22 "2006-02-13T17:35:20Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > I think it was called “The Tony Danza Show” and I think he played a guy named Tony. Thanks. I’m reading this and answering the phone at the same time. And almost laughed at the customer who called. If I’d had a beverage in my mouth I’d have definitely done a spit take. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/23 "2006-02-13T17:37:25Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > I think it’s good that nobody is telling Danza his show is cancelled. See, he’ll continue to report to the set and he’ll _think_ he’s making his show. That way, he’ll be to busy to actually try to start yet another new show. As long as no one tells him the video is erased after every show and that it’s never actually aired, we’re all better off. And we’re gonna need five sets of audiences. If we rotate through them, he might not notice that it’s always the same people… This just might work. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/24 "2006-02-13T18:43:53Z")
> [@Patty O'Furniture](#): > > There will always be work for him on Logo. As long as they change the format, and make him shirtless most of the time… Can I pretty please tell **Jayjay** ’s mother that the show has switched channels? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/25 "2006-02-14T16:12:53Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > I like Rachael’s recipes, and I have most of the 30MM cookbooks. (Most of them can be done in 30 minutes provided you already have all the ingredients and you took the time to prepare them–washing produce, etc.–when you got them home.) > > I should also say that I would totally, as they say, hit that, as long as Giada de Laurentis wasn’t available. > > But her own non-food-related talk show? I’d rather watch Tony Danza. And you should see the list of things I’d rather do than watch Tony Danza’s talk show. I admit to enjoying watching Rachel Ray – her enthusiasm and seeming joy is a bit too much at times. Also, she comes off as a very earthy girl, very into the pleasures of the senses. Having said that, I do find it easier to, at times, watch her without sound. Sometimes the happiness is just too much for me. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/26 "2006-02-17T20:09:01Z")
Aw, c’mon. He was really good in _Amadeus_. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/27 "2006-02-17T21:35:15Z")
> [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > Aw, c’mon. He was really good in _Amadeus_. Wasn’t that the performance that inspired Elton John to write that song about him? “Hold me closer Tony Danza” ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/28 "2006-02-17T21:38:06Z")
I must be real slow today. I don’t get either of the last two posts. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/29 "2006-02-17T21:46:36Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > I sometimes watch Rachel Ray…but her “30 minute” meals can only be prepared in 30 minutes if you have a staff of 23 helping you out in the kitchen - plus, you usually need to buy about $55 worth of spices (that you will never use again) to make her recipes. Actually, the ones I’ve seen (and I only watch occaisionally with my mother.) all seemed to use regular spices. (except the one time I saw her using tahini - meh, if I need tahini, I can borrow the big jar my parents bought a few years back when they tried homemade hummus.) Like **Doctor J** said, as long as you pre cut everything her time frames are pretty good. And for the most part they aren’t that hard to do the pre-cooking prep. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/30 "2006-02-17T21:52:39Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > I must be real slow today. I don’t get either of the last two posts. ☹ Well, the second one is a classical reference (_Friends_). Hey, TellMeI’mNotCrazy… > [@WhatExit?](#): > > Why did you bring that up? > > > [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > > > Probably because it was mentioned in the OP. Again with the whooshing… “vomit smiley”? “bring that back up?” Get it? Hello? ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/31 "2006-02-17T22:21:18Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > With any luck, adding this show will cause her to drop from exhaustion. No, she won’t. You know that giggle? It’s the steam from the nuclear power plant that fuels her fiendishness. Another show just means it will occur more frequently and at a higher pitch. One day, something will go wrong and BLAM! Everyone who hears her laugh will give birth to three-eyed babies. To hell with science; Rachael Ray knows no boundaries. ---
**Author:** ![Nightingale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/32 "2006-02-17T22:36:24Z")
Dislaimer: I love Racheal Ray. She’s funny and cute and seems like the kind of girl I’d like to hang out with. However, someone needs to tell her that it’s the _guests_ who are supposed to be talking, otherwise she may never shut up! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/33 "2006-02-21T03:57:43Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > I must be real slow today. I don’t get either of the last two posts. ☹ He was never in _Amadeus_. I can’t imagine a play (or movie) for which Tony Danza would be less suited; hence my joke. That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/34 "2006-02-21T04:31:47Z")
> [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > He was never in _Amadeus_. I can’t imagine a play (or movie) for which Tony Danza would be less suited; hence my joke. Yeah, that would be almost as ridiculous as giving Keanu Reeves a part in _Much Ado About Nothing_. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/35 "2006-02-21T14:02:36Z")
> [@Number](#): > > Yeah, that would be almost as ridiculous as giving Keanu Reeves a part in _Much Ado About Nothing_. Snurf gurgle bleh. Ba ha ha ha. [No one would ever do that.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107616/) That really did make me choke. Nice post. Jim ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/36 "2006-02-21T15:10:58Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > And we’re gonna need five sets of audiences. If we rotate through them, he might not notice that it’s always the same people… This just might work. They can just put them in different clothing and different seats. He’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/37 "2006-02-21T19:04:30Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Wasn’t that the performance that inspired Elton John to write that song about him? “Hold me closer Tony Danza” _spit-take_😛 ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/38 "2006-02-21T23:54:23Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Snurf gurgle bleh. Ba ha ha ha. [No one would ever do that.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107616/) “Whoa, I’m totally a villain!” ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181/39 "2006-02-22T01:21:01Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Actually, the ones I’ve seen (and I only watch occaisionally with my mother.) all seemed to use regular spices. I was going to say the same. Rachel Ray drives me nuts, but her recipes are pretty straightforward and she’s never cooked with any spices I don’t have on hand. I guess my kitchen is relatively well-stocked but, c’mon, unless all you’ve got in your cupboard is dried oregano and garlic powder, she’s not exactly stretching the pantry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-tell-tony-danza-but-his-show-was-cancelled/344181.md?page=1)