I didn’t want to shit on the other thread.
Seriously, until a month ago the name “Piers Morgan” meant nothing to me. Now he’s the goddamned Second Coming. I can’t look right or left without seeing some urgent report on what Piers Morgan’s doing. Holy mother of shit, he’s got a show! Jesus I. Christ, he’s interviewing Oprah! Oh my sweet ballsack, Piers Morgan put his left shoe on first this morning!
Why the sudden Piers Morgan mediaboner?
He was the head judge on “Americas Got Talent”, and now he’s taking over for Larry King, the pioneer cable talk show host. It’s a big deal (at least in the U.S.)
CNN has a lot invested in Piers Morgan’s show doing as well as Larry King’s.
I’ve learned two things opening this thread.
I never heard of Piers Morgan before, and have no idea what he looks like. The fact that he’s taking over for Larry King? Still doesn’t ring a bell.
You have a sweet ballsack.
He keeps having a go at Madonna (apparently because she once - get this - threw breadrolls at him), and he’s saying things like “we don’t need her now we have Lady Gaga”, trying to start a feud for publicity.
Madonna’s spokesperson responded with “Madonna doesn’t know who Piers Morgan is, but she’s a big fan of Lady Gaga”.
Madonna and Lady Gaga: 1
Piers Morgan: 0
PS I’d love it if Madonna threw breadrolls at me. Piers is so ungrateful.
If it weren’t for this Susan Boyle clip, I would have no idea who Piers Morgan is. It’s the only time I’ve ever seen him. People snark about people who say they don’t watch television, but there are benefits.
He is famous for Jeremy Clarkson beating him up on a Concorde flight (the last one)?
Never heard of him before this thread.
The Straight Dope. Satisfying whatever mild interest in celebrities I have, at fifth-hand remove. Which, frankly, is as close as I care to get.
He clearly has a deal with the devil a few years ago, he was a third-rate tabloid newspaper columnist, and now he’s hugely successful. He’s widely hated in the UK, btw, and not in the love-to-hate pantomime villain way people regard Simon Cowell - he’s genuinely disliked because everything he does is genuinely vile.
The second-to-last one, I think you mean.
I’m trying not to make the comment I want to make about what the world would be like had Clarkson and Morgan been on the last Concorde flight, so I’ll just go to my happy place now.
Mmmmmmm…
He’s replacing Larry King, and CNN is doing its utmost to make sure people watch him. That’s really the beginning and the end of the story. Lately CNN.com has been outdoing itself with obnoxious ads for his show.
I believe Stephen Fry once defined “countryside” as the unlawful killing of Piers Morgan.
I am only aware of him because I am guilty of watching America’s Got Talent. I always saw him as a bargain-basement Simon Cowell – filling the “British ass” judge role. But the more I am exposed to Morgan, the less I can tolerate him.
You misspelled “arse”.
ETA: surely an oxymoron?
Just out of idle curiousity, how do you know that your ballsack is sweet? Also, wouldn’t one expect a ballsack to be salty, musky or other flavors normally associated with human perspiration? Maybe you should see a doctor.
I think this has been posted in the other thread, but watch this if you want to get an idea of what Piers Morgan is really like. It’s a clip of Ian Hislop on Room 101, a show where celebrities talk about their pet hates.
The top rated comment on YouTube says it all really.
Actually he was the editor of the Daily Mirror. Forced to resign after the paper published false pics of abuse in AbruGhraib.
He then went on to reinvent himself as a TV personality - judging on *Britain’s Got Talent *and America’s Got Talent.
No, I meant as in donkey, not as in where you are hit by the door on your way out.