The other day I was at the dentist office. They had a TV on a Dominican channel with some idiot host of a talk-show. The topic was very interesting, and the guests obviously experts, but the host seemed like he needed to get 70 out of every 100 words out. He just wouldn’t let them talk, he’d make a question and then answer it himself. By the time it was our turn (I was taking my daughter to see the dentist) my blood pressure was in the low 500s.
And yesterday I was watching CourtTV, that blond bitch with short hair in the noon show just wouldn’t shut up and let the guests (who were actual lawyers and experts) talk. She knew better. You could see the guests were barely keeping their composure.
Since I was in my own home I did start screaming at the TV and turned it off.
Is there any talk-show host out there that you really want to reach out and slap?
I don’t know if he counts as a talk show host, but for me it’s Tucker Carlson.
His approach can be summarized this way: A guest says that dogs are carnivores. Tucker responds that he knows that cats are carnivores and asks the guest if he’s really calling a dog a cat. When the guest says he’s not, Carlson will go “But you just said you though dogs were carnivores, and I KNOW that it’s cats that are carnivores.”
The last time I watched him - he was calling anyone who had anything bad to say about Larry Craig was homophobic.
For me it’s Tavis Smiley. He doesn’t overtalk or have annoying habits, but I just can’t see why he has a talk show host job. I know he’s not exactly an empty suit, but damn if he doesn’t come off as one.
The ladies on “The View”. I had to watch it one time because I really wanted to see that day’s guest. After two minutes, I wanted to tape their mouths shut. No one could be understood because they talked all over each other.
And, if I was a guest on Larry King’s show and he interrupted me the way he does his guests, I would explode!
In the last 5 or 10 years I think that the Today show has descended into this same pit, that was formerly reserved for tabloid TV. All of them have that same annoying habit of asking a question and after the interviewee gets out 3 words, interrupting them to jabber away. And in the last year or two, it’s gotten even worse. After the first question they then say “now we only have few seconds left so please tell us how the world was made, but quickly”.
While I try to avoid Oprah, my roommate DVRs it every day and will frequently sit through three or four episodes on a Saturday afternoon.
Usually it’s pretty harmless (albeit annoying), but I’m always apalled when she goes off on some batshit insane new age-y metaphysical tangent and winds up spouting some nonsensical spiritual bullshit as if it were some profound truth.
Actually, I never wanted to slap Grace. Slapping is too good for her and would leave me dirty. Shoot her with a cannon maybe, but not slap her.
No, it’s the bitch from the show Banfield & Ford: Courtside. I don’t know which one she is, and I don’t know why she’s there. She’s not even a lawyer for Og’s sake!
The thread would have been shorter if the OP had asked for good talk show hosts.
Craig Ferguson lets his guests talk. If they don’t, or can’t (some movie stars are kinda dumb), he helps. But he doesn’t monopolize the conversation.
Maury Povich too, although now his shows are all “who’s the baby-daddy” and “can this slutty teen (and her mom) be saved”. He does get the best, or worst, out of his guests, and says very little. I think it’s because he’s just so sad.
I have to agree with this. Once, she was in one of her new age moments, and said, “The Universe has plans for us.” Then she turned to the audience and said, “You all know this, right?” Sure enough, everyone nodded their heads.
And she *always *interrupts her guests after asking them a question.
Then there’s her so-called Book Club. Who in hell would recommend “The Bridges of Madison County” as a great book? Now she’s pushing that self-indulgent crap “Eat, Pray and Love,” which should be titled “Eat, Shit and Flush.”
Yes! I saw this episode! I generally try to be courteous when my roommate is watching something I find absolutely maddening, but I couldn’t help but groan at that one.
“The Universe has plans for us??” I think I have to write a strongly-worded letter to the Universe if its plan for Oprah involved her spewing this nonsense on the air.