RIP Jerry Springer
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I was never a regular viewer, but I sure remember the stir he caused with his many and various adventures into combining talk-show and reality TV, before reality TV was a "thing."
I think he ran his show ideas through network executives, and if they threw up in the hall, that was the show he did next.
If it wasn't seedy, seamy, steamy, and cringe-worthy, it went to the reject box.
I'd like to see a short-list of his greatest hits, as long as I didn't have to watch them.
He had the touch for bringing you both sides of controversial issues so you didn't like either side.
Anyway, may he rest in peace, as may his viewers alive and departed.
I think he ran his show ideas through network executives, and if they threw up in the hall, that was the show he did next.
If it wasn't seedy, seamy, steamy, and cringe-worthy, it went to the reject box.
I'd like to see a short-list of his greatest hits, as long as I didn't have to watch them.
He had the touch for bringing you both sides of controversial issues so you didn't like either side.
Anyway, may he rest in peace, as may his viewers alive and departed.
anyone remember his show from the start? No because he tried to be thoughtful and actually do an intellectual show. But the seedy stuff got ratings and he went with it. I loved how he'd have a freak show but at the end he'd act all thoughtful and it always seemed a little too little to late. But what I remember the most about that show, was that the people who most belonged on the show seemed to always be the ones that where most flabergasted and shocked by the people who acted the most like them.
I did also once try to get a group of people to get on the show by lying. The plan was to have a big chain of cheating and infidelity that ends with everyone realizing after the fighting and flipping out that we could be mad or this could be the start of good time party adult fun time party....
Of course we never did it (people get excited about ideas like that and then when it comes time to actually do it they get shy.)
I did also once try to get a group of people to get on the show by lying. The plan was to have a big chain of cheating and infidelity that ends with everyone realizing after the fighting and flipping out that we could be mad or this could be the start of good time party adult fun time party....
Of course we never did it (people get excited about ideas like that and then when it comes time to actually do it they get shy.)
My girlfriend gifted me a Dunhill pipe. It turned out he relabeled a Dr Grabow!
I won't be fooled again. He's now a trans swimmer.......Jerry...Jerry...Jerry........
I won't be fooled again. He's now a trans swimmer.......Jerry...Jerry...Jerry........
I hated this guy since I first saw him on TV decades ago. This show lived up to the old adage about there being no such thing as "underestimating the taste of the American public".
Although I’m hesitant to admit this… one of my neighbors was on that show…
He holds a large degree of blame for the rise of the “reality” TV cultural hellscape of the last 30 years. His show created an atmosphere where idiocy, anti-intellectualism and a general lack of decency were celebrated. I’m sure he is quite warm where he is now.
Yeah, after an hour of mayhem he'd always sign off with: "take care of yourself and each other".anyone remember his show from the start? No because he tried to be thoughtful and actually do an intellectual show. But the seedy stuff got ratings and he went with it. I loved how he'd have a freak show but at the end he'd act all thoughtful and it always seemed a little too little to late. But what I remember the most about that show, was that the people who most belonged on the show seemed to always be the ones that where most flabergasted and shocked by the people who acted the most like them.
I did also once try to get a group of people to get on the show by lying. The plan was to have a big chain of cheating and infidelity that ends with everyone realizing after the fighting and flipping out that we could be mad or this could be the start of good time party adult fun time party....
Any show that had an episode titled : "I married a horse" can't have been all bad
Whenever I saw Jerry interviewed he seemed like a really nice, funny guy.
RIP
I actually do remember his show from the beginning he actually had some good stuff. One that I remember that's pretty famous is the young girl that was raised to hate Jewish people, so Jerry had her come to the city they filmed in and had one of his interns that was her age take her out and show her around the town they were together quite a bit and started to have feelings for each other .... when she was on the show he talked about it and brought the guy out and then let her know he was Jewish, her mixed emotions were quite the thing.anyone remember his show from the start? No because he tried to be thoughtful and actually do an intellectual show. But the seedy stuff got ratings and he went with it. I loved how he'd have a freak show but at the end he'd act all thoughtful and it always seemed a little too little to late. But what I remember the most about that show, was that the people who most belonged on the show seemed to always be the ones that where most flabergasted and shocked by the people who acted the most like them.
I did also once try to get a group of people to get on the show by lying. The plan was to have a big chain of cheating and infidelity that ends with everyone realizing after the fighting and flipping out that we could be mad or this could be the start of good time party adult fun time party....
He was previously a lawyer as well as the Mayor of Cincinnati
Bad taste sells, and worse taste sells even more. That vortex swallows up a lot of intelligence and talent.
Rarely people can actually backtrack. Red Fox was a stand-up comedy act that made his career on dirty jokes, and since he was a really good comic, with exquisite timing and an exuberant imagination, he did well.
Then when he transitioned to network television, he had to drop all the dirty talk, but with some good scripts and his own talent, he was brilliant anyway.
Rarely people can actually backtrack. Red Fox was a stand-up comedy act that made his career on dirty jokes, and since he was a really good comic, with exquisite timing and an exuberant imagination, he did well.
Then when he transitioned to network television, he had to drop all the dirty talk, but with some good scripts and his own talent, he was brilliant anyway.
He definitely had a hand in lowering the cultural landscape, and taking “shock value” to a new level, but most of all he took advantage of a lot of ignorant and uneducated people while using them to entertain his audience. And he profited handsomely all the while.
Though his show devolved into an ever-more-embarrassing mess (which he allowed to happen by chasing rating$), the original premise was actually defensible in a logical sense.
Which was while the public felt it was only natural to be curious about the private lives and secrets of the WEALTHY and famous---movie stars, musicians, and politicians---examining exactly the same things about the NON wealthy class was considered sordid and in poor taste.
Which seemed odd to him because the latter outnumbered the former by several orders of magnitude.
I don't think he anticipated the public's response to finally "looking there", however.
(Which also says a lot about human nature in general)
Which was while the public felt it was only natural to be curious about the private lives and secrets of the WEALTHY and famous---movie stars, musicians, and politicians---examining exactly the same things about the NON wealthy class was considered sordid and in poor taste.
Which seemed odd to him because the latter outnumbered the former by several orders of magnitude.
I don't think he anticipated the public's response to finally "looking there", however.
(Which also says a lot about human nature in general)
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Jerry was on the Cincinnati City Council in the 1970's and was mayor of Cincinnati for about a year. He was arrested for writing a bad check to a prostitute in Newport KY. I think the arrest was for the bad check, not the prostitute. He was very popular locally as a newscaster on a local TV station in Cincinnati as well, after the check incident. At the eleven o'clock news he did a very thoughtful editorial that ended with "take care of yourself, and each other". I didn't care for the later shock TV, but I did like him as a person.
This is horrible, I waiting waiting to see if I was a father.
God only knows what he put in the "memo" line...
I vaguely remember when that happened, I'm still dumbfounded that she would take a check, I just assumed it was a cash business.
The TV audience is wide and varied. But, there is a lot of truth in the above. One needs to look at the audience demographics, closely, to determine those segments shows appeal to. I believe Springer had an afternoon show. Who's watching in the afternoon? Who is looking for a bit of hilarious, "low brow?", distraction/distraction?
Hopefully he will rest in peace no matter how various people view him.