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The Spectacle Blog
So Larry King is calling it quits. Was there ever a worse interviewer on television? He was an even more terrible columnist. The “Saturday Night Live” skit lampooning his USA Today columns was not far off: “Hot dogs. Man are they good.”
The main reason King’s show was successful was the he was — with rare, bizarre exceptions — such a softball interviewer that everyone was comfortable being a guest. Consequently, he got a lot of interesting guests. Sometimes they would still manage to self-immolate despite King bumbling through the interviews. And odd fireworks would sometimes still fly.
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Big Java| 6.30.10 @ 12:33PM
Gee, all of his 14 viewers are gonna be upset that he is leaving.
todd| 6.30.10 @ 12:46PM
Kings show is really successful.
todd
Margie| 6.30.10 @ 2:04PM
Where's Johnny Carson when ya need him?
WendyG| 6.30.10 @ 2:05PM
James Wolcott wrote a greaty, insightful piece in Vanity Fair a year or so ago, just after the death of Michael Jackson re: Larry King. As usual, when he sticks to writing about culture (as oppossed to writing about politics) Wolcott was spot-on.
Mourning With Larry
http://www.vanityfair.com/cult.....cott200909
jane| 6.30.10 @ 2:42PM
Good to know the abdication of Larry King.
Jane
astorian| 7.1.10 @ 10:00AM
"Hot dogs, man are they good!" was a parody of Larry King, but his REAL Jimmy Cannon-esque columns (Obvious comment... unfunny joke... pointless anecdote... allusion to long-forgotten celebrity...) were so awful, it was sometimes ahrd to tell the parodies from the real thing.
It's hard to believe USA Today actually PAID Larry King to write "That Julia Roberts is pretty AND talented... I've been watching baseball for many years, and let me tell you, Albert Pujols is a heck of a player...: