Star Jones comments welcome here! Keep The View thread alive!

Shoot, you could probably put just about every talk show host in here we ever heard of and quite a few more that we haven't (or have just plain forgotten).

Dr. Phil probably owns this thread. But arguments could be made to include pretty much everyone that's on today.

Well, we don't have to worry about Miss Star anymore. After dissing BAbs she can't even get her payless job back! And she is slowly withering away after her botched Gastric bypass surgery.

Too bad, because Zilla's yearlong wedding-pocalypse was one of the funniest damn things I've ever seen on TV. God, I just couldn't look away. In fact, snarking on StarShip was what brought me to these boards. Good, good times.

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Absolutely! Rachel Ray might also put up a good fight for the title if the old thread about her show is any indicative of how people feel about her here.

Two words: Jenny Jones

It would be easier to mention the only one that I like and that would be Ellen DeGeneres. I don't watch too often, but when I do, she always makes me laugh.

I'm a dumbass, she's been mentioned.

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Ya just haven't been payin' attention!!! :-)

Maybe it's just because I was trained in broadcasting that I can't understand why hosts with gritty, raspy voices are even on television. I've always been amazed that Kelly Ripa was so young and sounded like a 60 year old woman! Rachel Ray also has a rasp and is LOUD which I personally find annoying.
As for actually HATING a talk show host, I can't say there are any I can't stand, although Barbara Walters seems to be showing signs of senility and should probably be reigned in a bit. It's easier just to change the channel and move on.

Actually, she was mentioned three posts above yours. Also, would you mind not using "Raytard" when talking about her? The word "retard"--and it's variants--it's pretty offensive. I know it's Television WITHOUT pity and all, but maybe you could use "Retchel" instead?

I do have to agree with staleepisode--Kelly Ripa's voice annoys me to no end!! Her personality doesn't help, either. I can't say I hate her, but I definitely go out of my way to avoid watching her (gotta love the "mute" button for her annoying stain pen commercials!)

Nobody has weighed in with Oprah yet? My god, her ego is the size of the Milky Way itself.

And Dr Shill just needs to get the f*** over himself, and take his botoxed wife with him.

I hate Dr. Phil - and it increases my Oprah hate to acknowledge that she is a key reason we're saddled with him - but my cousin really likes him and peppers her conversation with lines like "How's that workin' out for you?"

I watched the View with my mom a few times and couldn't understand why anyone would want to watch what looked like an hour-long kaffee clatch among four people sharing a lot of injokes and self-love. And I actually like Rosie O'Donnell and Barbara Walters individually [and love Meredith Viera, late of that show].

I am shocked that no one has mentioned Tyra Banks. If you think Ellen's show is insignificant just try and find an iota of meaning within an episode of Tyra's show.

And WRETCHel Ray sickens me. She sounds like a gross stereotype of a woman from New Jersey. She probably spits in her food. God, I hate her.

There was a time I used to like Tyra ... now I can't remember that far back. Was she always this annoying and obsessed with herself?

I can't bring myself to listen to Dr. Phil for even half a second before I go into a homicidal rage.

Does anyone know what's going on with Wendy William's show? Was it going to be a talk show?

Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel. And did I say Jimmy Kimmel?

I found his frat boy 'humor' unpalatable enough when he was Ben Stein's sidekick, and even more so on the ads for "The Man Show" [I didn't watch the show itself because the ads bored me so thoroughly]. But now that he has his own talk show he seems to be everywhere. I can't stand the fact that he's invaded "Dancing With the Stars", and irrationally hold him partially responsible for the whole frat house style of humor that has taken over movies and tv these days.

That was exactly what I was thinking when I first spotted this thread title... "can we say ALL of 'em and get done quick?".

But there are a few real stand-outs. I hate Oprah because she's so spectacularly insincere but apparently capable of mass mind control, and therefore dangerous. I hate Jerry Springer because he's made a fortune out of the fact that there are lots of people out there too stupid to realize that when they come on his show to announce that they're leaving their spouse, he has that spouse backstage waiting to make an entrance... seriously, wouldn't they catch on after a few dozen instances? And I hate Ellen DeGeneres because she was such a jerk to Hugh Laurie... but that's personal.

She was a jerk to MY Hugh Laurie? What happened, pray tell? I'm not home in the daytime to catch theses shows, though I like Ellen DeGeneres in general.

In a nutshell, she seemed to be ill-informed about him and his work (although researchers supply these people with information; all they have to do is bother to read it), she kept going off on unrelated tangents trying to be funny while he sat there looking at her a bit quizzically as if wondering what on earth he was doing there, and she asked him what about living in America he disliked most, to which he replied, with a great deal of class, "I'm a visitor in this country and I don't feel I should be reading off a list of charges". For her big finish, she had unearthed an old Polaroid commercial he had done fresh out of university and ran it, and I thought he looked genuinely embarrassed. (For the record, I thought the ad was cute, but I objected to the way she sprung it on him and he seemed so ill at ease I couldn't really enjoy it.) Just once I wish a talk show host would ask him about his writing or his music, instead of his American accent.

Mike Bullard. He's not on anymore, thank goodness, but for seven years he had the most painfully bad excuse of a late night talk show here in Canada. What really bugged me was that the Comedy Network (Canada's knockoff of Comedy Central) ran the same episode four times a day to make their Canadian Content quota. Any channel who has that show as one sixth of their total lineup should not legally have Comedy in their name.

There's not a single daytime host that I can stand. I wish the networks would dump the lot of them. /end wishful thinking

I cannot stand David Letterman. He isn't funny.

Jay Leno might be funny underneath it all, but all of his jokes are so obvious and vanilla I'm usually embarrassed for him. And whenever he mocks someone's accent, I want to slug him.

I just thought of another reason why I hate Oprah... she yells. "Woooooo!!!" for no reason except to get her audience stirred up, etc. I don't watch... I just see this behavior on the promos and it reminds me of a two-year-old trying to get attention.

This talk about the talk show host we hate reminds me again of how much I miss the "old" style talk shows - Phil Donadhue, Sally Jesse Raphael. Those were the best!

Sally Jesse scarred me for life from all the "My ____ Dresses Too Sexy" shows I watched when I was a kid. I'll never get the image of that underwearless old lady humping the light pole out of my mind.

And you just KNOW he'd be seething if a guest made fun of his lisp.

He really pisses me off during the "funnily-worded articles" segment [i.e., Sale: bikini tops, half off] because he couldn't be a proofreader, either. And it's obvious someone else prepared the joke for him, so his air of superiority during the segment is completely unjustified.

Dr Phil used to be good in the first 2 seasons and then in season 3 he doesn't help people anymore. I had quit watching Maury, not because he's a bad host, but I got depressed after watching 1 too many paternity tests. I used to think Dr Phil was the better show than Maury, but after I quit Maury, and stuck with Dr Phil, I realized Maury was the better show.

Maury is consistent. He does paternity tests, lie detector tests, out of control teenage girls, and crazy things caught on tape. He can never get any better, but at the same time he can never get any worse. As for Dr Phil, I got sick of his southern drawl, and I realized that he is stupid for not being able to realize that there are some guests on there are performing so they could get on TV.

Sheesh, even Tyra can catch people who are fake and performing on her show.

I'm naming Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shephard and I don't even watch The View. Ok, I did one time when I called in for work but that plus youtube is enough for me to be unable to stand them.

I've always wondered why a guest on The Tonight Show hasn't snapped and lost their shit all over Jay yet. I mean apart from that time Bobcat Goldthwait set the place on fire. Whenever Jay is kidding around with some unfortunate celeb, he has this habit of reaching out and poking them in the shoulder repeatedly. I'm annoyed on their behalf. And he does it to everybody.

Two words, and hopefully most of the Aussies reading this thread will know what I mean: Rove McManus.

I don't know if they count as "talk show hosts," but they don't fit nicely under any of the other categories, so I'll put them here: Stacy & Clinton on the US version of What Not To Wear. I know that part of the show, in both its UK and US incarnations, is necessarily going to be harsh on the makeover person's old wardrobe. I can live with harsh truth - it took me a little while to get used to Trinny and Susannah's criticisms on the UK version, in fact, but soon I began to appreciate what they were doing. I've never been able to jump that hurdle with Stacy and Clinton, because they make snippy remarks that aren't remotely helpful - in fact they seem almost gleeful sometimes about scoring snark points over some poor frumpy housewife's old outfits. And hey, snark is fine, just don't pretend to have the touchy feely "we really love you" ending.

I don't mean to sound like one of those Anglophile snobs who won't take anything except the original British version, but I really do think they're just mean sometimes in a way the UK version wasn't.