God I hate that fucking Today show host Steve Liebmann. For the last few weeks I have been watching the show a bit and he is pathetic.
What really bugs me is his interview style. Specifically all his interviews are EXACTLY the same. Almost every interview he does he will ask a question in this style:
OK, you have (retell current event in painful detail), what do you do now?
Example: (steve) “OK, so you have just crawled out of the car crash, your family are burning around you, you just realise your not insured, and its your mothers birthday, and oil has dropped to $23 a barrel, and the forcast is for showers, and … what do you do?”
“Im sorry, your stale interview style has made me forget the question.”
This might be tolerated once or twice but this moron does it every fucking time. It’s as if he read the first chapter of “Interviewing 101” and then chucked the rest away. Be creative fuckhead, it’s not going to kill you.
Plus the banter that he attempts between stories is embarrassing to watch. It is so formulated and moderated that it is essentially air. All the content is removed to avoid insulting anyone and to keep the presenters from having to think to hard. I realise they have to keep talking but this just exposes how braindead he and cohost really are. I’ve heard better conversation between amoeba.
Whats wrong with having someone with a brain on morning TV. Why do they stick to the format of
[Mr Moron] [Miss Moron]
We are not all brainless out in TV land, give us the benefit of the doubt.
God, it fucking shits me!!!
When I first saw the subject line, I thought “Who?”, then I figured you had to be talking about the Crocodile Man and came in to nominate him for dumbest person ALIVE.
But you were talking about that guy off the Today show. Well, it serves you right for watching such an incredibly crappy show! The Today show only gets viewers because nothing else is on. It sucks. Turn off your TV, and listen to the radio.
I eagerly await your “Stupidest Man on Australian Radio” thread. This is going to be a tough one for you - there are a lot of stupid people on Australian Radio!
It’s hard to pick the stupidest man on TV, since they are all so lazy in their work ethic.
So, the laziest man on TV has to be Rove McManus. He thinks a “gee whiz” goofball expression, going “whee” as he spins his chair around, and throw in a few stand-ups to provide the comedy content, and he HAS A SHOW! Gee, that wasn’t hard work, was it? AND THEY WANT ME TO COME BACK NEXT WEEK!!! I can just see him hugging himself in the incredulity of it all.
God help him if he is Andrew Denton’s replacement on 2MMM. Then he’ll know what hard work is …
Oh come on! Stand back and give him room… here he is - the stupidest man on Oz TV
the Daddo who does the greatest commercials shows!
Is it Andrew?
This man is like watching TV with your brother-in-law. The kind of brother in law who says “Look, he’ll jump through the window. Now she’ll try to run him over. This one is the traitor” and so on.
This man and his stupid boofy dog, with comments that Beavis and Butthead writers would say “nah, too obvious” to.
A Big jerk. I’ve never watched the show (well, would you?) but I’ve seen enough in switching between stations.
An insincere, small-minded, slow, lumpy-looking, lazy bodgie, with no clothes sense and a bad haircut.
RugbyMan, having gone through university with Simon Poidevin, if he’s the stupidest man on Australian TV the standard is higher than the tests would indicate.
My nomination (seeing Stan Grant is out) would be Mike Munro … or is just the fact he’s a smug arsehole suckered me into thinking he’s stupid?
You ignorant, butt crack-sniffing arse. Your particularly facile brand of smarm cannot be contained into a mere 30 minutes of the excerable wankfest you like to term A Current Affair (ha!); no, it must spill over for 5 minutes into any program that follows like Channel Nine-brand liquid effluent. Even if I’m quick enough to mute your stupid braying, the sight of your sanctimonious mug as you finish off your retch-worthy sermon is enough to induce a good session of eyeball self-gouging at Maison de Narrad.
May the whole Paxton clan and a thousand John Saffrans pick through your garbage.
Why is Stan Grant out? I think I saw him on SBS recently. Stan Grant should always be in. Perhaps we can give him a lifetime achievement award?
I could never understand why he had such a good job, since he had no charm or appeal that I could see. The shananigans with Tracey Whatsherface have just made him into a charmless slimeball. I can not believe that man found TWO women prepared to breed with him.
No he is that stupid. Did you see the celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Sam was the last to go because he got every question wrong in “fastest finger first”. Even though Eddy Maguire tried to help and he used every lifeline Sam won nothing.
While I agree that Steve Liebmann’s interviewing style sucks chunks, when he’s on holidays they manage to replace him with someone even worse - Richard Wilkins.
The only Australian interviewer I’ve ever liked is Andrew Denton. I remember seeing Ray Martin (the bland leading the bland) interview a woman who had survived 30 odd days at sea. She said she reached a point where she was certain she was going to die but then “God spoke to me and I knew I would be saved”. Ray smiled his inane smile and asked the next question on his list. I was screaming at the TV “ask her what God said you idiot”. He obviously was just going through the motions and wasn’t listening to her.
For sports, Chris ‘back, back, back’ Berman is very annoying. He may know sports but he sure doesn’t show it—gimmicks and pet names are his game.
We have a Today Show dude, a fat black guy named Al Roker, who has got to be God’s gift to inanity. This guy smiles and talks just TOO much…must be an idiot.
You get the idea: stupidity/inanity/idiocy are not exclusively down under; it’s world wide.
reprise
How could I have missed Richard Wilkins? And for that matter where the fuck does Ch 9 get these people.?Monroe/Martin.
I know, they steal them from the ABC, give them a lobotomy, a million dollars and a show to host.
…and dont get me started on the Datto’s. Did these kids grow up underneath high voltage power lines or something because I think any of those “best commercial” shows would be enough to get the things banned.
What is it now?.. Andrew/Lochie/Steven/Harpo
don’t ask
(IIRC Ben Elton paraphrased from Popcorn)
…an interviewer who uses the answers from her guests as ‘quiet time’ to prepare herself for the next question.
