Members dragonflies Posted July 2, 2010 Members Share Posted July 2, 2010 Kathy Griffin *shudders* I can't stand that woman and her screechy voice Larry said he thinks Bob Costas would be a good person to take over for him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted July 2, 2010 Members Share Posted July 2, 2010 It seems it'll be Joy Behar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted July 2, 2010 Members Share Posted July 2, 2010 Isn't her show on Headline News actually outrating his on mainland CNN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted July 2, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 2, 2010 I don't ever watch her show. I think she can be very forced, desperate, kind of hollow, the mask is not as present as she likes to believe (and she looked so much better before all the plastic surgery) but I think as a host she could be funny. She is decent at give and take and has chemistry with some people. She would also have to keep herself under control somewhat. I really enjoy her rapport with Anderson Cooper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted July 2, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 2, 2010 Bleh. She is a dim bulb. She just talks and talks and doesn't seem to know anything she's talking about. Maybe she will be better as a host than she is on The View. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted July 2, 2010 Members Share Posted July 2, 2010 But you don't like him? WIN. She SUCKS. Deadline.com is reporting about this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bellcurve Posted July 2, 2010 Members Share Posted July 2, 2010 +1 Meredith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted July 2, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 2, 2010 I like him when he has a sense of humor, which he does with Kathy Griffin. I don't like the ponderous, journalism-on-my-shoulders crap, especially the stuff where he goes out in his best pressed and clean "casual" clothes to spend a day or so with the little people before returning to the safety of his ivory tower. That type of faux-concern is why CNN gets on my nerves. I still remember the endless sighing and glasses-taking-off which Aaron Brown did to try to show us how much he cared about the Iraq War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted July 2, 2010 Members Share Posted July 2, 2010 I think she's charming and she and Lisa Ling were the two least annoying hosts The View has ever seen. I can't stomach anyone who laughs at their own jokes and Joy's got that market cornered. I've seen a few episodes of her show and I actually prefer her on there where she's forced to be serious and (somewhat) objective. I'm not a fan of her cynical, liberal, anti-"what our parents taught us" generation of folks, I can find Joy extremely obnoxious at times. At any rate, like I said, when she's on a show like hers she's forced to be a little less opinionated so and she's not nearly as bad as some of the folks on FOX so I guess I could stomach her as a Larry replacement (or I could just not watch ). But Meredith > Joy as host of anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted July 2, 2010 Members Share Posted July 2, 2010 Kathy has a serious case of the look-at-me-look-at-mes. I realize that she's a comedian, but unlike, say, Joan Rivers (have you all seen her new doc btw?), Kathy can't manage to hold a conversation on a talk show without being entirely devoted to doing material, she smiles but seems almost annoyed when someone has the nerve to interject or say something about themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted July 2, 2010 Author Members Share Posted July 2, 2010 That's definitely true, it's also one of the reasons I don't like a lot of modern comedians (then there's such "genius" as Sarah Silverman, where slurs are funny if they are ironic, or whatever...). But Kathy does hate Ryan Seacrest, and that's important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted July 4, 2010 Members Share Posted July 4, 2010 It really is important, Ryan is the biggest **** to hit Hollywood in a long time. Honestly, I think it will be very hard to replace Larry King, not because he was an amazing interviewer but because he had an amazing ability to 'get' hot guests, likely because of his copious softball interviews. His show, for those of us who liked it, was safe and familiar. He was the right balance for infotainment. Kathy Griffin is not a suitable choice, nor do I think she'd be the least bit interested. Love Kathy though. Joy Behar is doing well, ratings wise, at HLN, but I don't like her show, her inexperience is really obvious and she isn't that engaging a host. That said, I do enjoy her on The View, so I wish her well. If I were her agent, I'd say "Isn't it better to be a big fish in a small pond?" which defines her show at HLN. If she goes to CNN, the expectations will be huge and I doubt she'd live up to them. Katie Couric is a bomb at CBS and I'm sure she'd be just the same at CNN. Plus, I think she alienates a lot of viewers because she's pretty polarizing. Christiane Amanpour COULD have been a great alternative if they'd wanted to up the seriousness of the time slot, but she was poached to ABC a few months ago. Had it been offered to her, I have no doubt Amanpour would have stayed at CNN. Meredith Vieira is charming and thoughtful and would be an ideal fit at CNN. But she's got a nice gig over at the Today Show, a gig that pays HUGE and a gig where she's doing amazingly well at. Why mess with a good thing? Piers Morgan is my pick. His chat show in the UK is sort of Larry King Live-esque in that he can maintain a full hour with a single guest with relative ease. He has a sense of humor but can ask a tough question. He is hardly highbrow, but neither is Larry. Piers is definitely more flash than substance, but that may be what CNN needs. I think the larger issue is that CNN is down, ratings wise, across the board. Nobody's doing well on the network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted July 4, 2010 Members Share Posted July 4, 2010 Is Dick Cavett still alive? He was the best and I think he is younger than Larry. Then again, Zsa Zsa is younger than Larry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted July 5, 2010 Members Share Posted July 5, 2010 Dick Cavett IS alive and he's 3 years younger than Larry, as he's 74. Zsa Zsa, on the other hand, has Larry trumped, he's 77, she's 93. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted July 5, 2010 Administrator Share Posted July 5, 2010 I love Meredith Vieira too and would like to see her get her own show - an Oprah like show where she can have serious topics and also do light stuff like celeb interviews. I think Meredith is believable covering serious and light subjects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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