Barker to guest-host The Huckabee Show

[drmusic_99]

TVNewser hears that former "Price is Right" host Bob Barker has signed on to serve as a guest co-host for some of Huckabee's syndicated shows. They will mark the first time that Barker has hosted a television program since leaving the classic CBS game show.

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[SuperMatch93]

first chuck norris supports huckabee, now this?!

/not trying to start a political debate

[davemackey]

[quote name=\'SuperMatch93\' post=\'245072\' date=\'Jul 26 2010, 11:29 PM\']first chuck norris supports huckabee, now this?!

/not trying to start a political debate[/quote]
Well, Bob and Chuck have been friends for years....

/so too Chuck and Bob, for you "Soap" fans...

[brianhenke]

[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'245078\' date=\'Jul 27 2010, 08:50 AM\'][quote name=\'SuperMatch93\' post=\'245072\' date=\'Jul 26 2010, 11:29 PM\']first chuck norris supports huckabee, now this?!

/not trying to start a political debate[/quote]
Well, Bob and Chuck have been friends for years....

/so too Chuck and Bob, for you "Soap" fans...
[/quote]
 Barker was a guest host on WWE Raw last year.

  Brian

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'brianhenke\' post=\'245167\' date=\'Jul 28 2010, 04:00 PM\']Barker was a guest host on WWE Raw last year.[/quote]Barker appeared on Larry King c. 1993.

/just as relevant.

[Mr. Armadillo]

The original post did state that this was Bob's first hosting gig since leaving Price, so the fact that he 'hosted' something else in the interim is actually slightly relevant, even if Brian quoted the wrong post.

[JakeT]

[quote name=\'Mr. Armadillo\' post=\'245180\' date=\'Jul 28 2010, 10:15 PM\']The original post did state that this was Bob's first hosting gig since leaving Price, so the fact that he 'hosted' something else in the interim is actually slightly relevant, even if Brian quoted the wrong post.[/quote]

I did my very best to sit through both the Tuesday & Wednesday shows in their entirety but sadly, I failed. On today's episode especially, there were only so many whale torture videos and old man butt cancer anecdotes that I could take before I hit the ole "delete" button on the DVR and began longing for the days of afternoons with Temptestt Bledsoea and Queen Latifah. (More on this later)

And who would have ever guessed that Barker would be as predictable as ever? I mean, will we EVER hear enough of Barker saying, "I wish I had a refrigerator for every one of you," or certainly America's favorite, "She came on down and they came on out."

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! STOP IT, BARKER!! YOU'RE KILLING ME!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! AGAIN!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! EVEN AFTER THE 50TH TIME, IT IS STILL SO FUNNY!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! OH OH MY SIDES ARE SPLITTING!!!

But I digress...

But, on a positive note, "THE HUCKABEE SHOW" could turn out to be the cause of the next big return of game shows in daytime. Not because of Barker's appearance...no no...that's not it. Simply put, this is easily the biggest steaming pile of poodle puppy poo-poo to hit the airwaves in many years. The production values are horrific. I would say that it feels like you're watching a typical locally-produced effort but, in reality, it really feels more like bad cable-access. The audience is tiny. The house "band" is pitiful. And worst of all, Huckabee generally comes across as kinda creepy and a bit of a jerk (or maybe even more than a bit) I can't imagine even the folksiest, right-leaning of audiences would enjoy this train wreck for more than a few minutes. So, if we could be so lucky, in the next six weeks that Huckabee is supposed to be on America's TV schedule, perhaps he and his show will put the final nail in the worn-out daytime TV talk show's coffin, opening up lots of future time slots for much more worthy programming.

But I'm probably wrong and this goober will turn out to be the next freakiin' Oprah!

Ewwww...I think I just threw up in my mouth a little...

Jake

[J.R.]

C'mon, JakeT, tell us how you *really* feel about The Huckabee Show. ;-)

[MTCesquire]

So....what was so wrong with Queen Latifah's talk show?  You never got back to that.

[WarioBarker]

Interestingly, the video of Barker's "favorite moments" managed to mis-spell Fremantle (and the footage seemed to be from the "50 Years Of Bob" special in 2007). Refreshingly, the Yolanda clip managed NOT to show the part that always gets shown (i.e., the top falling down).

/Robert W. Barker, will you please go now!

[whewfan]

Never saw Queen Latifah's show (nor did anyone else or it would still be on the air) but Tempestt Bledsoe's show basically tried to copy Ricki Lake's hip, young, attitude and talk in lingo that only 20 somethings would understand (hell I was IN my 20s when Ricki Lake was on and I didn't really understand what she or her guests were saying) However, Queen Latifah, Tempestt and Ricki Lake are all ABOVE the trash talk show.

Silly question... anyone ever see Richard Bey's "talk show"? It looked like a seriously demented game show. Take the obviously phony guests of Jerry Springer, the constant "fighting", and put it on a game show set.... sound effects... hell Richard Bey OUTDID Springer in that department.

[cmjb13]

[quote name=\'whewfan\' post=\'245193\' date=\'Jul 29 2010, 08:33 AM\']Never saw Queen Latifah's show (nor did anyone else or it would still be on the air) but Tempestt Bledsoe's show basically tried to copy Ricki Lake's hip, young, attitude and talk in lingo that only 20 somethings would understand (hell I was IN my 20s when Ricki Lake was on and I didn't really understand what she or her guests were saying) However, Queen Latifah, Tempestt and Ricki Lake are all ABOVE the trash talk show.

Silly question... anyone ever see Richard Bey's "talk show"? It looked like a seriously demented game show. Take the obviously phony guests of Jerry Springer, the constant "fighting", and put it on a game show set.... sound effects... hell Richard Bey OUTDID Springer in that department.[/quote]
I did see Tempest's show. Must have been around 1994. Went with a friend who just wanted to see it.

I did see the Richard Bey show in late 1995. I remember going to the studio dressed in a suit. Everyone on line was asking why we were dressed up. We told them we were coming from work (which wasn't true). The topic was women who were looking for men, but couldn't find a good man (or something along those lines). One of the women mentioned she was at the Million Man March. I wanted to ask how she couldn't find a man at the Million Man March, but Richard never did get around to me.

I seemed to recall this airing around Christmas, so there may have been decorations on set.

I have it on tape somewhere. Maybe one day I'll find it.

[BrandonFG]

Tempestt was fall-1995, the same season that Gabrielle Carteris, Mark (L.) Walberg, and (wait for it) Carnie Wilson had shows. Neither made it to the following season, for good reason. IMO, the problem with Latifah's show was that it was about three or four years after everyone and their mom had a daytime talk show, well after the genre wore out its welcome. She wasn't offering anything new in the late-90s.

[quote name=\'whewfan\' post=\'245193\' date=\'Jul 29 2010, 08:33 AM\']Never saw Queen Latifah's show (nor did anyone else or it would still be on the air) but Tempestt Bledsoe's show basically tried to copy Ricki Lake's hip, young, attitude and talk in lingo that only 20 somethings would understand (hell I was IN my 20s when Ricki Lake was on and I didn't really understand what she or her guests were saying) However, Queen Latifah, Tempestt and Ricki Lake are all ABOVE the trash talk show.[/quote]
Ricki and Tempestt were both by the same production company IIRC. I'm guessing the similarities were for that reason.

Silly question... anyone ever see Richard Bey's "talk show"? It looked like a seriously demented game show. Take the obviously phony guests of Jerry Springer, the constant "fighting", and put it on a game show set.... sound effects... hell Richard Bey OUTDID Springer in that department.

I think you took Richard a little too seriously. Richard Bey was bad TV and knew it, hence the games and stuff like goofy sound effects...it actually made it a fun little guilty pleasure (at least it was when I was 12). Besides, that was when there weren't that many game shows on TV...had to take what I could get. ;-)

The problem with the mid-90s shows was that, they all looked the same. Rehashed topics like "You Stole My (Wo)man", "I'm a Woman Who's Really a Man", etc. *Click*. Rosie O'Donnell turned things around, but then made it so that everyone and their mom had a chat show.

/That's one thing I don't miss about 1994-96
//The beginning of the end of television as we know it
///Night Stand with Dick Dietrich, now THAT was good TV!

[JakeT]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'245198\' date=\'Jul 29 2010, 08:48 AM\']The problem with the mid-90s shows was that, they all looked the same. Rehashed topics like "You Stole My (Wo)man", "I'm a Woman Who's Really a Man", etc. *Click*. Rosie O'Donnell turned things around, but then made it so that everyone and their mom had a chat show.[/quote]

But ya know, nothing will ever be quite as good as the late-80s when each weeknight, right before I began my typical night of restless sleep and serialized nightmares, I'd lie in bed with the covers pulled up just below my eyeline and watched and listened to the screams and bellows of Morton Downey, Jr....each night, the words "ZIP IT!!!" echoing in my brain as I tried to drift off...

Jake