I love and miss Larry King

I liked him too, but he couldn't live forever.

No, I miss Rush far more. Honest. Forthright. You always knew where he stood. And he didn't need a guest to play off.

"Welcome R2, from the American Fascist Party, and Carole King the singer. Carole, are the rumors true that we're married?"

I'm so glad Rush Limbaugh is dead. What an awful piece of shit.

💯 oxys a day Rush?

all the*

I LOVED his wacky shows with Sylvia Brown, forgotten celebrities, UFOs. Larry King was comfort television.

How did you gain all the weight?

A sharper cut.

Final Jeopardy: "The Only King with More Wives than Henry VIII."

The problem with DL today is that it's so hard to tell sarcasm from naivety.

Is OP being funny? Is OP being serious?

I'd like to think OP is being sarcastic as Larry King was the biggest joke in tv interview history. But then again, so many DLers are 25 year old fly over boys that maybe he actually thinks King was good.

As Bubble once said, "Who can tell? Who can tell?"

R11 OP here, I'm absolutely serious.

Me too OP, me too!

His style made many a tough nut crack open & the real dish come out. Loved him. He did a kick ass one with a Manson Family Guy, whose name I can't recall, who got out before the SHTF. Fascinating. Wish I could find it..Any sleuths?

[quote]I'd like to think OP is being sarcastic as Larry King was the biggest joke in tv interview history.

You are absurd.

Larry King Live ran for 25 years on CNN. 25 years.

He was well respected and that's why EVERYONE was interviewed by him.

DL is full of 25 year olds? Sure, Jan.

Didn’t he deep rim the Reagans?

I heard a celebrity tell Larry that wherever they traveled, they were always glad to turn on their hotel tv and find his show. He was always these and always had interesting guests. There's nothing like it on prime time tv anymore. Joy Behar did her version of it for a couple of years on Headline News.

All that said, Larry was a notoriously unprepared interviewer. He said it helped him ask the same questions that the audience would ask. I also possibly allowed him to slog it out for that many years without burning out. Larry once said that one of the best questions to ask a guest was "why?"

The show that preceded Larry's was Crossfire, which was a mini-McLaughlin group and was one of the first politics-as-entertainment shows I remember airing in prime time. That style of programming now dominates all of the "news" networks during prime time.

It would be nice to have a non-political interview show on during that time, but it may be a bygone era.

^always there, not always these.

^^"It also allowed", not "I". I didn't know the man.

I enjoyed LK. He had on a lot of older Hollywood stars whose heyday was long gone, but they had really interesting things to talk about on his show. I was born in the late 80s, so his show was always on when I was growing up. I was sad when his show ended. I still remember him getting the first interview with Paris Hilton when she got out of jail back in 2007 (the year I graduated high school) it was so hyped up and people actually thought she was a changed woman at 26 years old. She couldn't even recite a Bible verse after claiming she read the Bible in jail. She also promised to build a women's shelter too, which she never did. We should probably force her to build that shelter she said she would on Larry King and still haven't done so.

She has the money to day it. She should be forced via public pressure to do so. So spoiled and entitled.

Hmmm. Was Larry King televised around the world? What networks? I've never heard a non-American reference Larry King.

At least in the early years, CNN International --widely available by satellite -- largely just re-ran the US edition.