Howard in 2005: "The Show is so much better without celebrity guests. If it was up to me, we would do away with them."
Posted Dec 1, 2016, 12:32 AM UTC
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Omg it's sour shoes asking the question, I would've never known if he didn't start singing at the end.
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Jeff sounded like he was going to die then.
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This was back on terrestrial radio, where commercial breaks every ten minutes meant you can't have a really good interview with celebrities.
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Opposed to now where he still can't have a good interview with constantly mentioning Daniel Day Lewis stayed in character during filming of Lincoln, projecting his daddy issues, asking if the celebrity ever fell in love with his costar, just running down a singer's discography and ask if he remembers some of his biggest hits, talking over guests and not letting them answer the question, not listening to the answers, and repeating the same guests every 4-6 months and conducting the same interview?
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You have summed up every stupid celebrity kiss ass session (interview) he does in the post Turk era. Or when he talks over them as they are finally answering a question with a possibility interesting answer so he can continue with his scripted boring set of lame questions. What made HS the king was not scripting his interviews and going off the cuff like two people chilling and riffing.
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I won't deny that his interviews have become formulaic, but at the time, he was basically alternating between asking a question and throwing to commercial during intrviews. I can understand why he would hate doing them then and want to get rid of them. He got to Sirius and started being able to do really good interviews, and he wanted to do more. Who knows, maybe he's sick of them again, and that's why he's not even trying any more.
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I like it when he has great guests on. I loved the Jeffrey Dean Morgan interview. I learned a lot about him.
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He also said radio is a habitual medium and not working a full week is doing a dis-service to your audience.