{"id":8762,"date":"2023-08-09T17:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T00:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8762"},"modified":"2023-08-09T17:22:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T00:22:33","slug":"rewind-talk-show-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8762","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Talk Show Burnout?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of those archived articles, headlines, photo-toons, BilgeBucket Lists and other content over the past twelve years. In honor of our 20th, and because we\u2019re sick of the current state of affairs in the world, we\u2019ll be reposting more items from 2003 through 2009 throughout this year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s face it, folks – television is not what it used to be. Reality television SUCKS and the daytime talk shows are just a revolving door of SUCKAGE. We can’t watch two seconds of any daytime talk show without flipping the channel for something else . . . anything else . . . even commercials! Back in the early eighties, there were only a couple talk shows like Donahue and Sally Jesse Raphael. Then Oprah conquered the airwaves which brought a massive influx of semi-celebrities trying to duplicate her success. Then hosts like Maury Povich, Jerry Springer and Jenny Jones came on the scene and television was officially swirling the drain. We’ve often marveled at the people in the audience, especially Springer gawkers and wondered why the hell they’d want to be in the audience and watch this bilge in person. Surely, they must be paid to sit through these crapfests. Which brings us to our article published on December 22, 2006<\/strong> where we speculate on the very real phenomenon of professional talk show audience member burnout. Maybe folks at The View<\/em> will cover this important issue in a future show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional Talk Show Audience Member Burns Out <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Marla Donnelly, a professional audience member for talk shows ranging from Maury<\/em> to Dr. Phil<\/em> has resigned from her position citing exhaustion. She is the third professional audience member in the last three weeks to quit her position. Larry Dawson quit in early December and Kathy Corcoran quit last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just couldn\u2019t do it anymore,\u201d said a sullen Donnelly. \u201cI mean that last Oprah\u2019s Favorite Things giveaway was grueling, but then Ellen had her 12 Days of Giveaways. I mean a person can only get so excited about a cappuccino maker. I don\u2019t even drink coffee so it was really tough screaming like a banshee when I saw it. Then we were asked to have an orgasm over towels from Ye Olde Hardware Shoppe. Towels for Pete\u2019s sake! I just couldn\u2019t be a screaming Mimi anymore. I had to get out of there.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawson agrees with Donnelly. \u201cI had to take time off because I just couldn\u2019t fake enthusiasm when inside I felt like vomiting. I was doing the Maury show last month and I\u2019m telling you, after the tenth failed paternity test, you just stop caring. Come on! The woman\u2019s a slut if she can\u2019t even pick out the father out of ten guys. These women are worse than Paris and Britney combined. And don\u2019t even get me started on Springer. If I never see another love tryst between a redneck, his three hundred pound wife and his transvestite lover, it will be too soon.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corcoran said, \u201cWhat did me in was the Rachael Ray Show<\/em>. That rotating platform made me nauseous. Plus we had to applaud every time she added a pinch of cayenne pepper or dash of oregano. I\u2019m sorry, oregano just isn\u2019t that exciting. Not only that, Rachael was just too damn perky. No one\u2019s that perky. Not even Katie Couric was that perky. At the end of one of her shows, I was ready to kill and I sing in my church choir.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not surprising,\u201d said audience member manager, Fay Goodman. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy these days being an audience talk show member. Back in the old days, there was just Donahue<\/em>. Then Oprah came on, then Springer, then Jenny Jones. Then everybody and their brother were getting talk shows. Remember Tempestt Bledsoe\u2019s show? Or Charles Perez\u2019s show? Thankfully, most of us have forgotten those timewasters. Now there are so many different shows on so many different networks. I know several of these women rush from Emeril to Martha and then over to Montel. It can really be quite grueling.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donnelly however didn\u2019t rule out a return in the future. \u201cI know I\u2019m tired of the routine now but you never really get it out of your system. I know that sometime in the future, I\u2019ll be watching Oprah and I\u2019ll instinctively jump off the couch and start screaming like a howler monkey and send my seventeen cats up the draperies. We\u2019ll just have to wait and see.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of … Continue reading “Rewind: Talk Show Burnout?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[377,2461,2460,1025,2463,2012,849,2462,169,945,2459,1274,79,2464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8762"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8773,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762\/revisions\/8773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}