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Let me reiterate the title of this post, I think Larry King is a tool! If you are not familiar, Larry King, I believe, might be the luckiest human being on the planet. The guy has been in broadcasting for almost 100 years. (I might be a little bit off on that, but it is has been a really really long time.) The guys whole shtick is those suspenders he wears every night. I have always thought King was a tool because every time I watched an interview he has done, all he does is throw softballs and would not know how to be controversial or ask a tough question even if his life depended on it.
Last week, Jerry Seinfeld was on his show. Unless you have been living under a rock the last couple of weeks, Seinfeld has been everywhere promoting his new bee movie coming out. Anyway, Seinfeld was being interviewed with Larry King and Larry showed his ignorance and began asking Jerry some ridiculous questions that anyone who has been actually ALIVE for the last decade would of known the answers to. In response, Seinfeld kind of took Larry to task. Watch the video below and then we can discuss this.
So I have seen some comments to this video that people felt Seinfeld was out of line which I could not disagree more. I thought Seinfeld was right on the mark and even held back. After watching this video, I decided to do a little research on Larry King and found an interview he had done which he commented that he does not like to prepare at all for interviews and likes to just go in cold to each interview he does.
WOW! There’s someone to really look up to. What do you think my boss would say if I told him that I prefer to not prepare to learn anything about what my job is and hmmm just make it up as I go? Yea, I don’t think I would have a job too much longer. Don’t you think it is time that we start holding everyone to a higher level these days? And I mean everyone; politicians, broadcasters, writers and marketers!
I would like to nominate Larry King as the Hipster’s Tool of the Week. Do I have a second?
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Second.
You shoulda seen his interview with Brittany. It’s gold, Jerry, gold.
(Interesting that you embedding of the YouTube video didn’t transmit through to the feed reader. I was all ready to tell you how inconvenient you made it for me to have to click out to a new window. But alas
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While it hurts me to say it, I have to agree with you on this one, mostly!
I do think you are right on that King should reconsider “going into interviews cold”. But I think you’re back to apples and oranges again, Cord, when you make the statement that you “…prefer to not prepare to learn anything about what my job is and hmmm just make it up as I go”.
Now, even by your own words you indicated that Larry King had been in broadcasting for almost 100 years (and you’re wrong on that, I checked the wiki, and he actually invented broadcasting just after 33 A.D.
). My point is that even a tool is going to learn something just from the repetitive motions of doing things over and over for that long!
Now you want to talk about holding to higher standards? Did you happen to catch Bill Maher’s interview of the ex-world champion chess grand master, Garry Kasparov? I was so totally blown away by him, by the interview that Bill performed, and realized that someone over there is holding those folks to higher standards (probably themselves, something else a few people in this country just don’t seem to know how or why to do).
Here’s the link to that vid on YouTube if your readers are interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvMHjXMiyy4
Good stuff!