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Larry King Announces The End Of CNN's LARRY KING LIVE!!
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After weeks of CNN denials, Larry King announced Monday that his nightly CNN talk show would end this autumn after 25 years. King’s statement:
"Before I start the show tonight, I want to share some personal news with you. Twenty five years ago, I sat across this table from New York Governor Mario Cuomo for the first broadcast of Larry King Live. Now, decades later, I talked to the guys here at CNN and I told them I would like to end Larry King Live, the nightly show, this fall and CNN has graciously accepted, giving me more time for my wife and I to get to the kids’ little league games. I’ll still be a part of the CNN family, hosting several Larry King specials on major national and international subjects.
"I’m incredibly proud that we recently made the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest running show with the same host in the same time slot. With this chapter closing I’m looking forward to the future and what my next chapter will bring, but for now it’s time to hang up my nightly suspenders."
Word is journalist and “America’s Got Talent” judge Piers Morgan has been negotiating to take over the slot.
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"I’m incredibly proud that we recently made the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest running show with the same host in the same time slot. With this chapter closing I’m looking forward to the future and what my next chapter will bring, but for now it’s time to hang up my nightly suspenders."
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They're pushing out Larry to make way for the latest flavor of the month. Sad.
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Never thought this day would come. Let the "old" jokes begin again.
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After all, he's been throwing them for years.
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years ago anyway. "WHAT'S DA QUESTION?!"
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Have you watched him for the last couple of years? He is so out of him mind and out of step with the news it is not even funny.
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really, after the movies and then his own series, Gollum deserves a break before starting up on The Hobbit
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Wow, I thought O.J. got away with murder.
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Who watches this show? I think the ratings have been in a steady decline for years. Funny, they ended LAW & ORDER this year, too.
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It's no wonder he left.
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How any female can find this dude remotely sexually attractive must be fucked in the head.
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Maybe they can do it while watching Client number 9 (Elliot Spitzer) and Kathleen Parker's new show.
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Larry King has been the softball venue of choice for idiots, dirtbags and mealy-mouths for most of his history. He could always be counted on to ask the simplest, least challenging questions and still give the vain an international audience to spout their personal nonsense to, without being called on it.
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He wants to give 'Dancing With The Stars' a shot.
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She lives to be on his show.
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Oh make up your own joke.
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One more for the road, Larry? On the air? Make it ritualistic though like at home, with prayers to the Gods of immortality and animal sacrifice.
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Don't get your panties in a bunch, I basically just complimented the guy on how long he's held together so well. Using horror imagery.
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attractive? I heard he's hung like a large water mammal.
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Him and Andy Rooney should both be put out to sea on an ice floe for the good of the nation, never to be seen again.
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Nothing lasts forever.
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That's all I have to say about that. Celebrate. *raises wine glass*
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LARRY!
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"The Chris Farley Show" sketch on SNL was a better, more informative interview show than Larry King Live. I don't know how he's been on the air for 25 years. He seems perpetually befuddled, slightly mentally retarded, and asks the worst questions imaginable. Half the time it seems as though he's only barely familiar with whoever he's interviewing. He'll have some witty, clever, funny guest on, and then you have to sit there and watch half of the guest's jokes awkwardly fly right past the guy. Terrible.
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Was when he had on Melissa Etheridge and her partner to discuss their brand new baby girl. They talked for a segment or two then he had to cut to commercial and promo the next segment. He said in his loud booming voice: "Coming up next, David Crosby — SPERM GIVER!" Fuck, I was in tears.
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He's been a somnambulist for years now. He occasionally rouses from his coma, but he's way too old and burnt out to do that job. It's time for that show format to get someone with more energy.
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....the hell?
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Holy crap I hope that's on YouTube.
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http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=136662999692610&ref=mf
Replace Steve carell with Rib Corddry on the OFFICE
Join the page and lets see if we can pull a betty white here. -
While we're painting graphic images, I'd like you all to take a moment and digest the reality of some poor woman getting fucked by Larry King. Let's take in that scene. Just imagine that grimacing, orange-haired skeleton head bobbling inches from her face. Her fingers rolling from notch to notch of his bent, cracking, polio-ridden spine, as she counts his vertebrae, trying to distract herself from this horrific vista teetering precariously above her. The suspender straps still hanging from his shoulders, swinging in rhythm like two black gold-clasped pendulums. Averting the gaze of those jaundiced, bloodshot eyes for fear that they could pop out at any second, she stares at the forest of brown spikes in his flaring nostrils, until they start to look like two hungry lamprey eel mouths mawing for nourisment. Her gaze wanders lower, to his gaping mouth, and she suddenly realizes that the only thing keeping a full set of human teeth from dropping onto her face is the strength of a 24-hour denture bond on it's 23rd hour. She then notices the cooling, subtle wind coming from the flap of neck skin hanging down, twisting with his head motions like the rudder of a capsized boat. I sure hope she appreciates that big dick. Because she sure as shit is paying a hefty ticket price.
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Was by Triumph. He said Larry King looked like a "bread stick with suspenders." Probably one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
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A drunk, a thief, and a lazy interviewer. He would have fit right in here.
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"The more I think about it, the more I really appreciate ... the Equator."
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I greatly doubt CNN will discontinue the show - they'll just get a new, cheaper host. This won't be easy, as whoever replaces him would have to be
knowledgeable and interested in a wide subject range (politics and current affairs, entertainment and pop culture, religion, medicine-health and psychology, science and technology), as Larry has interviewed people from all those areas. -
Thank goodness I ate a couple of hours ago. lol
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of CNN. "This is (no longer)CNN."
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most Americans don't know that.
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Thank you for outing yourself.
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Jun 30, 2010 2:46:29 AM CDT
If CNN had any integrity, they'd hire Aaron Brown for the job
by wickedjacob
Pushing him out for Aaron Cooper was the moment that network most clearly admitted it'd rather be sexy than smart.
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And the USA's inexplicable attraction to the UK's biggest and most useless cunts continues...
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but Larry's on-air senior moments have been stacking up for years now. Why so many anchors & or artists don't leave the stage before they start embarassing themselves is beyond me. Of course I know the answer is M-O-N-E-Y, but whatever happened to going out on top?...you know, before you're forced out.
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Piers Morgan taking over the show!? I mean he's just fine as a judge on AGT, but wouldn't taking over for Simon on AI be a better fit?
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know much about the world beyond what type of pudding he had for breakfast. It's long past time he retired.I mean, the clue should have been when he interviewed Jerry Seinfeld and didn't know who he was.
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on some stupid talent contest, but before that, he was fairly prominent on Fleet street. As a tabloid hack, he's used to knowing the dirt about people, asking misleading questions, venturing into libel territory and generally pissing off subjects and audiences alike.He could do an entertaining job, if he had nothing to lose. But I suspect he'd tone everything down and be network-safe.
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of how despised piers 'moron' morgan is over here. that is exactly why he's made a bid to launch a career over there. hes a slimy turd, and i expect if yanks give him the rope of further tv exposure, he will hang himself with it just the same.
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I loved it when he called Paul McCartney "George". I watched LKL during the first Gulf war quite a bit. After that, not so much. Time to go spend time with which wife? Does he have a new one already?
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Although that would be pretty cool
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Okay, I agree that it was time for him to go. I don't have anything against older people, but Larry has long ceased to be relevant - not to mention "in touch" with the modern world. Having said that... I think that Larry was forced out of LKL. I know that Larry claims that this is his decision, but they were already interviewing replacements behind his back for the past couple of weeks. Maybe this is something he's been talking about for a while now. I don't know. Whatever the case, it still feels like ageism at play here. And, like Kentucky Colonel joked, they don't want him to die on camera, as Larry looks to be half in the grave anyway.
In a way, it's a shame that Larry's hanging it up for another reason. Having been on for 25 years, Larry was one of the last surviving TV shows from the 80s. -
Now there's a potential movie!
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Larry's example! See how its done Harry? Its not hard to step down.
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Jesus, I thought the guy was pushing 80- at least he looks that way.How many fuckin heart attacks has he had- he's like Cheney with that and they both look 10 years older than they are
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Which would not make him 67.
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King can't even come close to this astonishing broadcasting record: THE SKY AT NIGHT has had the same permanent presenter, Sir Patrick Moore, from its first airing on 24 April 1957, making it the longest-running program with the same presenter in television history... and still going strong at age 87! In fact, there's another episode airing next week.
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Has anyone here seen this? It's quite possibly the worst interview I've ever seen.
You can watch the whole thing on youtube, but this segment in particular is especially bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9KYQjtSsy8
He cuts off Paul in the middle of his story about his last meeting with George before his death, to go to an ad break. It literally has to be seen to be believed. He does it to Yoko towards the end as well. -
Fracking article on IMDB has him as 67. You're right he's 77
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Jun 30, 2010 1:14:53 PM CDT
Perfect timing - walk out of the studio, and into the grave.
by impossibledreamers
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Rush Limbaugh's nickname for LK. The most entertaining thing to ever come out of Limbaugh's mouth- with the exception of the Vicadin and Oxycontinin he was throwing up.
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Larry King was forever popping up in Hollywood movies, did the guy ever say no?
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and the Little League coach that fucked her.
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Seriously, you can have him. Getting that massive douche firmly out of the UK would be the best present America had given us since lend/lease. Just keep him very, very busy so he NEVER COMES BACK.
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