and were you sad when it ended?
Do you wish we still had The Oprah Show?
by Anonymous | reply 102 | September 23, 2020 11:28 PM |
I spent a lot of time visiting my mom years ago, before she passed away, and we’d watch tv during the daytime. And there was absolutely nothing interesting on until Oprah’s show. It was always interesting and the most intelligent daytime show to watch. I give her a ton of credit. She really meant a lot to a lot of people.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 13, 2020 1:58 AM |
R1 - Agreed. She kept it interesting, no matter what. There weren't a lot of bad shows or filler. She also did different takes on issues that have been done on TV a million times.
She was a good executive and kept her producers and the content strong.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 13, 2020 2:00 AM |
Yes. A thousand times yes.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 13, 2020 2:02 AM |
My memory may be off - but in the early days, it was more flyover and rednecky.
Then she became more urbane and fancy pants, more upmarket. I preferred that. The earlier shows seemed trashier and slightly depressing.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 13, 2020 2:03 AM |
Fuck no? What is this -- a thread to weed out all the frauen?
The only daytime talk show host I miss is Donahue. And yes, I'm old.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 13, 2020 2:07 AM |
R4 is correct. She did some shows to rival Geraldo, Sally, and Maury in the early days as far as subject matter goes. Really trashy shit. Later on, she became all "living your best lifey."
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 13, 2020 2:08 AM |
[quote]The only daytime talk show host I miss is Donahue.
Funny, I was thinking about him at that second and how much I DON'T miss him. He was a creep.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 13, 2020 2:09 AM |
of all the people who've gone away, Regis, Erica Kane, Viki Buchanan, the Hugheses, the Bauers, I strangely miss Oprah the most.
I worked in the media and got close enough to her at an OWN press event to ask her a specific question for a story I was writing.
Having her quote would have been AWESOME, but she drew a blank when I asked my question. I was crestfallen.
She put her hand on my forearm and said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry.' She communicated to me she genuinely felt bad she couldn't help me.
I believe she meant it.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 13, 2020 2:09 AM |
Who was that sour-faced cunt with the red glasses? I don't miss her AT ALL either.
I know... Sally Jesse Raphael. Just came to me.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 13, 2020 2:12 AM |
[quote]She put her hand on my forearm and said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry.' She communicated to me she genuinely felt bad she couldn't help me. I believe she meant it.
She was a genuinely warm person. No doubts about it.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 13, 2020 2:13 AM |
If you miss Oprah so much, you can always buy some of that cauliflower shit she hawks.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 13, 2020 2:14 AM |
R10 "is"
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 13, 2020 2:16 AM |
The rise of Oprah coincided with the decline of America into a nation of whining little pussies. We used to be a country that solved problems.
Now everybody just emotes all the time and talks about how much so-and-so hurt their feelings, and meanwhile nobody is willing to take responsibility for making their own life better.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 13, 2020 2:22 AM |
I liked her and her show but I was also very critical of her.
I think her team raised the stakes. I've seen some of her more recent interviews and they are pretty dumb.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 13, 2020 2:26 AM |
Her recent video lecturing whites about their privilege were quite ridiculous.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 13, 2020 2:27 AM |
R13 - a lot of shows did that and then she pivoted away and became more problem resolution, like there were 2 different shows. The first 12 Oprah years and then the last 13.
She didn't really do a lot of 'woe is me' stuff - it was about stepping above it and moving forward.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 13, 2020 2:32 AM |
No, I could never stand her!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 13, 2020 2:33 AM |
I liked her trash TV early shit. I was disappointed when she crawled out of that gutter and became Frau inspirational and book clubby.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 13, 2020 2:53 AM |
When she didn't have the celebrities on. Actually really enjoyed her show. Some good topics. I found some celebrities she would kiss their ass too much. But I don't know how she would do now. She's a totally different person now. Too high and mighty.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 13, 2020 3:44 AM |
I liked her show until the last few years when she suddenly started acting like she was above everyone and practically referred to herself in the 3rd person.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 13, 2020 4:19 AM |
No one ever wrote an opera about Oprah.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 13, 2020 4:38 AM |
Agree with R21. It got too much when her show opened every day with her receiving a one-minute-long standing ovation from the studio audience? They could have easily edited that out, but someone thought it was important for us to see it every day. She also started that weird "favorite things" bullshit where fraus would whip themselves into a beatlemania-style frenzy for overpriced designer products (even a car) that they received as part of the product manufacturers' sponsorship of the show, but somehow Oprah got all the credit.
I liked her best in the early days (having ripped off Donahue's formula), when she walked into the audience, and she held up the microphone while she let audience members ask the panelists questions. It all went to hell after she lost the weight (the first time). The she show became about Oprah. She was always staring at herself in the monitors, the audience no longer got to ask questions, and now Oprah's opinion was given as much prominence as the counseling expert who brought on the show to give the panelist guidance. She always kept talking about her relationships with Stedmund and Gayle. (And she would always pronounce "husband" as "hoooosband" like she thought it was cute or funny. And her worst offense of all was unleashing Dr. Phil on the world.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 13, 2020 4:59 AM |
Oprah came along at just the right time during the golden age of TV, I dont think she would be received as well today.
I view Oprah's time on TV as pre/post beef trial. That was the turning point for her career, when she transformed from talk show host to cultural icon and influencer. That whole scandal inadvertently elevated her cultural importance to a completely different level, and she ran with it.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 13, 2020 5:23 AM |
I would give anything to get videos of the shows where she and Gail went on the road trio across the country. I've been looking for years, but can not find them anywhere.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 13, 2020 5:35 AM |
No, and no.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 13, 2020 5:42 AM |
The formula was great for boomers - consumerism, conscience, celebrity, and sometimes cancer.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 13, 2020 6:07 AM |
Don't forget cooking -- and the lucrative tie-in diet books.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 13, 2020 6:10 AM |
She aired some of the most vile, pornographic trash on television. But since she claimed it was for educational purposes, she was praised.
There's simply no evidence that the "rainbow parties" discussed in the clip below existed.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 13, 2020 6:35 AM |
I think her show was great for most of its run. Wasn't a fan of the new age-y stuff she promoted in the later years, like Eckhart Tolle and The Secret. And yes, the celebrity ass-kissing could be a bit much at times. But she had so many memorable shows that stick with me after all these years. That format might not work any more, in these cynical times. But I think we could use an empathetic voice like hers right now.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 13, 2020 7:18 AM |
No and no. Why the fuck should I be sad? Do you mistake me for a room full of 200-lb. and 300-lb. heffalumps, weeping and squealing and oohing and aahing over diet plan books, celebrities with nothing to say, that ghoul Dr. Oz with his fountain of youth ("You too can have crepey, desiccated mummy flesh like mine!"), or that homespun turd Dr. Phil offering up homespun advice for trailer trash, the fine points of fat girl flannel sheet sets? Do you think my IQ is in the 90s?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 13, 2020 8:05 AM |
She is such an inspiration! I love holding rainbow parties amid a pandemic in a red zone state. It’s so risk-gay!
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 13, 2020 8:10 AM |
Hate her. Wish her unwell.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 13, 2020 8:34 AM |
I once had a client who was a producer on the Oprah show. When they were in Texas, where my relatives lived, he got them tickets for her show. They had to wear shirts that were given to them in order to make the audience visually appealing. I personally wouldn't walk across the street to see her. I lived in Chicago for years and never once watched the show.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 13, 2020 8:49 AM |
R4 People like to conveniently forget she was trash tv for a number of the early years.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 13, 2020 11:18 AM |
I will never forget how the audience cheered when Dolly said she wasn't gay. No wonder she has stayed in the closet.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 13, 2020 11:24 AM |
R25, I'll take all the money you can possibly give me. Here ya go!
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 13, 2020 11:33 AM |
[quote][R4] People like to conveniently forget she was trash tv for a number of the early years.—I Haven't Forgotten, And I Won't.
In the early days, she'd do things like travel down to some godforsaken hell hole in the deep south where some poor AIDS victim had been run out of town and "interview" the local folk. "Someone saw him at the buffet...he was spittin' in the salad!"
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 13, 2020 11:34 AM |
Kathy Griffin's take on her "Barbra Streisand Special" was Kathy at the height of her powers. I'm not a fan of stand-up, or Kathy for that matter, but this was a masterpiece.
Oh, dear...it seems to have gone from YT.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 13, 2020 11:39 AM |
Not particularly and no. Nothing against Oprah; just never watched one minute of her show.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 13, 2020 11:39 AM |
[quote] just never watched one minute of her show.
That's just ridiculous.
Have you ever listened to a Beatles song?
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 13, 2020 11:41 AM |
Debra Wilson on Mad TV did the all-time greatest Oprah parodies.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 13, 2020 11:41 AM |
Oh, sorry, R25 - reading your comment again after posting the previous two videos, I see that you were looking for a specific episode(s). I looked and did not find a Cross County Road Trip video in its entirety. Hope you find it one day.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | September 13, 2020 11:48 AM |
No. I do miss trashy 90s talk shows though.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 13, 2020 11:51 AM |
I do miss Oprah. Particularly those times when she'd have a singer on and, when the singer inevitably performed , the camera would cut to Oprah, who'd be sitting with the audience, where Oprah would be found lip synching along to the singer with all the accuracy of a Japanese monster movie dubbed into English.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 13, 2020 11:54 AM |
Why is it ridiculous, r42? Do you often find yourself overwhelmingly compelled to turn on a TV show that holds no interest for you? Personally, I’ve never been a big TV watcher, am not really into talk shows, was always at work when Oprah’s show aired, and just never found any reason to bother checking out the show.
And yes, I’ve listened to a Beatles song, dippy. I like them and seek out their music to listen to, but even if I didn’t, I’d surely have heard one or more of their songs in a store, at a party, etc. TV doesn’t work that way. I mean, I suppose I may have walked into a waiting room or whatever where an episode of Oprah was airing, but even so, I didn’t actually WATCH.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 13, 2020 11:55 AM |
OP and R3:
Go play with your vaginas.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 13, 2020 11:56 AM |
[quote]OP and [R3]: Go play with your vaginas.
Expect more of this...the children start arriving on Sunday mornings. The Saturday night grace period is over.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 13, 2020 11:58 AM |
Oprah was the harbinger of Frau empowerment in the US. She also brought the positive thinking New Age philosophy behind THE SECRET into the mainstream, or the fraustream if you will. She was Must-See TV entertainment before Judge Judy court shows.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 13, 2020 12:07 PM |
R45, I appreciate your effort. I've searched everywhere that I can think of looking.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | September 13, 2020 12:19 PM |
I think Oprah would've nipped the whole "Karen" thing in the bud and told these Deplorable plants "not today, Satan! Not today!". Same thing with wearing masks. She would've educated the US about how important it is to protect yourself and others against Covid-19 and maybe even bitch slapped Dr. Phil for siding with Trump and his administration.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 13, 2020 12:19 PM |
Oprah was pretty cool before she was deified in the late 90s.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 13, 2020 12:51 PM |
I'll never forgive Oprah for popularizing the ridiculous "Lipstick Lesbians" in 1992.
Still stuck with those fake "lesbians" and "bisexuals" in 2020.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 13, 2020 12:51 PM |
She was always going on about what a great car that new VW Bug was, but never in my life have I ever seen pics of her driving one.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 13, 2020 12:55 PM |
"Hairdresser Break-Ups" is the classic of that era.
I've looked for it on youtube but can't find it.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 13, 2020 1:06 PM |
I wish we had that Oprah. Not she's this arrogant, condescending, lecturer. She talks down to everyone and gives lists of books to read. Gag me. I remember when she brought her audience along with a subject and learned along with them. She was wonderful.
Also, she let down her country. She is one of the few who could have stood up to Trump with authority. But she thinks he's a "friend." She did the same with George Bush
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 13, 2020 1:08 PM |
"She gets a paper cut and she thinks it's stigmata. She's like LOOK! STIGMATA! And you're like no Oprah. And she's like BUT....and you're like NOOOOOOO OPRAH!"
- KG
by Anonymous | reply 59 | September 13, 2020 1:16 PM |
R25, I tried again with no result. I did, however, find out that the episodes were entitled "Oprah and Gayle;s Big Adventure." It aired on 9.18.06. Meanwhile, I DID find Oprah and Gayle's Big Yosemite Camping Adventure if you'd like to see that.
-R45
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 13, 2020 2:55 PM |
I always found all the “my friend Gayle” thing very draggy. Gayle's a nice and decent person, but not an interesting one.
Same in real life when a friend has a draggy friend, it's like a dead weight.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | September 13, 2020 5:10 PM |
The fraus really loved this fat, rich, lesbian.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | September 13, 2020 5:10 PM |
Remember when, in the late 90s, Oprah sang the new theme song, "Run On", for her show? She even made a music video (below).
Shortly after this, the Onion did an article about her called, "I believe I will run on....and Get Away from Oprah." The article included a photo of a frau watching TV, with a caption that said something like, "Millions of viewers wait to hear instructions from her leader about what books to read and how to live their lives."
by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 13, 2020 6:56 PM |
I miss Ricki Lake and Jenny Jones more.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 13, 2020 7:03 PM |
Tempestt Bledsoe
Mother Love
Gordon Elliott
Doctor Dean
Charles Perez
Danny Bonaduce
The English version of Cristina
Les Brown
Ricki Lake
Morton Downey Jr.
Nine Broadcast Plaza which became the Richard Bey Show
Geraldo
Jenny Jones
Mo Gaffney's talk show
Jane Pratt
Rolonda Watts-I loved her show
by Anonymous | reply 65 | September 13, 2020 7:23 PM |
Amazing TV! 🤣 Who else could deliver this but Oprah?
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 13, 2020 10:45 PM |
I flipped through it once or twice but never watched it all the way through...five or ten minutes was enough. And I didn’t know that it was no longer on, so no, I couldn’t care less. I’m sure in a few more years it will obtain DL cult status like golden girls, and we’ll have endless insipid threads until that batch dies off also.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 13, 2020 10:58 PM |
Her love for Harvey Weinstein was disturbing. She knew.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | September 13, 2020 11:02 PM |
R63 - Gurl, funny post! and love the video. I'd forgotten about that.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | September 14, 2020 12:27 AM |
Oprah gets into an argument with a Karen in her audience:
by Anonymous | reply 70 | September 14, 2020 12:35 AM |
@R66 - "How Stella Had to Give Her Groove Back."
by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 14, 2020 1:34 AM |
Wow, that clip at R70. I wonder what year it was. Oprah makes some good arguments why someone might not embrace Jesus. For example, a person might be living in a remote tribe, and never heard the word "Jesus". But these ladies insist that person will still go to hell. Future Trump voters.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | September 14, 2020 2:56 AM |
One of the reasons Oprah ended her talk show is because she was to tied down to the show. 25 years really was a good run.
After all, that very show made her a Billionaire.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 15, 2020 7:06 PM |
When the show came to an end they ran a short season of shows about backstage at The Oprah Show. It was pretty interesting. A lot of the brains behind the show very seemingly very ORDINARY women, but they were sharp. She had a very good team. They made her seem better than she is in many ways if her more recent interviews are anything to go by.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 15, 2020 7:21 PM |
R74 A lot of the people who worked with Oprah behind the scenes of her talk show, are still apart of her team today.
She keeps good talented people around.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | September 15, 2020 7:25 PM |
No. Sanctimonious blowhard.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 15, 2020 7:46 PM |
[quote] She had a very good team. They made her seem better than she is in many ways
But many of those people stayed to work on Rosie's show when it took over O's studio. That show underperformed, although it was no fault of Rosie.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 15, 2020 7:54 PM |
It wasn't Oprah's fault either. The buck stops with Rosie.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 16, 2020 2:34 AM |
Drew is here now.
We no longer need O
Thanks tho.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 16, 2020 6:25 AM |
On balance, I think Oprah was a positive force in the world.
She admitted to being sexually molested as a child. That alone helped countless people. To have a rich, powerful woman say: "Yes, this happened to me."
She's now been too rich for too long. She no longer has relatable revelations to draw out for audience members. (E.g., I smoked crack with a boyfriend.)
by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 16, 2020 6:41 AM |
Yes I do miss her show.. a simpler time, before her disastrous own network took up all her time. It was easy, entertaining television
by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 16, 2020 7:41 AM |
I miss Queen O as being the primary dyke on tv.. Think of all the pain she could have saved us had she stayed. Instead we’ve all had to suffer through that shrill carpet-muncher spawn of Satan, Ellen
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 16, 2020 7:44 AM |
Judge Judy gives me all I need on the daily. I expect her new show will as well.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 16, 2020 7:54 AM |
Ugh, completely full of herself. NO
by Anonymous | reply 84 | September 16, 2020 8:11 AM |
What, R65???
I am LAST on your list? LAST???
by Anonymous | reply 85 | September 16, 2020 10:40 AM |
search - ok.ru oprah winfrey - look for the choc chip cookies - 217 of them!
by Anonymous | reply 86 | September 16, 2020 12:03 PM |
The Oprah brand is unique. There was a feel good quality about watching her show. Especially when I was a kid growing up.
I absolutely miss "The Oprah Winfrey show. Those were good ole simple days.
Everyone is on edge constantly now.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | September 16, 2020 1:55 PM |
Speaking of Drew -- she needs to stop screeching!
by Anonymous | reply 88 | September 16, 2020 2:15 PM |
God no! I never could stand her. I pegged her for a fraud decades ago. And then when she stared foisting all those acolytes of hers (I'll never forgive her for Dr. Phil) on the public and decided she needed to be burned at the stake.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | September 16, 2020 2:25 PM |
No, and it ended?
by Anonymous | reply 90 | September 16, 2020 2:33 PM |
R89 Is Jealous.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | September 16, 2020 3:13 PM |
Foisting Dr. Phil and her crash diet on the public was the worst.
At this point, I have zero confidence that Oprah knows very much about food and exercise.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | September 16, 2020 7:44 PM |
I like Oprah, but don't miss her show, and wasn't sad. I associate daytime TV with being a shut-in.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | September 16, 2020 7:53 PM |
I made her caged bird sing.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | September 17, 2020 2:04 AM |
Oprah did really, really good. Oprah is an extraordinary success tale for the ages. She's incredible. Sorry, haters.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | September 21, 2020 9:04 PM |
My friend used to work in Water Tower Place and saw her there in early days, before she was really Oprah. He recognized her from the news. She came into his store. (I think it was Body Shop, but I always confuse whether it was that or Bath and Body Works. He was a shopbottom in one of those places.
He was walking about 10 feet behind her and said as she was walking, she was cutting the longest fart. One of those ones that sounds like a train....little bursts, rolling into the station.
People could hear it. A little kid looked back and wrinkled her nose.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | September 21, 2020 9:41 PM |
Fuck Oprah! How about Sally Jessy Raphael or Jenny Jones? How about fuckin Tempest Bledsoe??
by Anonymous | reply 97 | September 21, 2020 9:43 PM |
I live Oprah, fuck the haters.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | September 21, 2020 11:19 PM |
Oprah is the best! There are hundreds - HUNDREDS it was ten years ago so who knows what the number is today - of young black men in the US who were fortunate enough to be educated at Morehouse College through Oprah Winfrey's generosity.
Likewise, we pay tribute to GWTW's famed writer, Margaret Mitchell, who paid for the education of some 50-80 young black medical doctors way back when.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | September 23, 2020 3:24 PM |
Oprah did occupy a space in media and culture that was like a voice of reason and some sort of morality even though she later became a dangerous new ager. There aren’t many places anymore where people can go to and just be united and Oprah was that.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | September 23, 2020 3:45 PM |
I'll never stop bitching about her first interview of Streisand.
I eagerly tuned in.
At 15 minutes in I had to force my eyelids to stay open from boredom induced sleepiness: "...the colors of my flowers outside my window are continued into my room interiors which match my landscaping...when I'm looking out my windows I have to see the continuity of the exterior colors with those on my walls and furniture ....
ZZZZZZZzzzzzz.....
by Anonymous | reply 101 | September 23, 2020 11:19 PM |
Reading the Kitty Kelley bio right now. At the point where she just moved to Chicago. So far, so good. Oprah is magic, so she has legitimate reason for her particular brand of jargon. Oprah amazes Oprah. And it all came about because she believed it all would.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | September 23, 2020 11:28 PM |