Don't confuse bad guests with bad hosts. The majority of the responsibility for whether an interview is interesting or not has to be down to the host. With Opie's distracted mind that can't stay on a topic for more than 30 seconds and Jimmy's child-like, embarrassingly obvious questions; these two would struggle to make any interview compelling.
Like him or hate him, Piers Morgan is an interesting interview... And the only reason why is because he's alpha'd these two weak cucks and took control of the interview right from the off both times, similar to what Larry King did with Opie.
They had Seth Rogen and James Franco right when The Interview was blowing up, and it was an utterly boring conversation where they asked the same questions you'd expect from a morning zoo. They get these highly-respected scientists or physicists in like Neil DeGrasse Tyson or Brian Cox and Opie asks the same questions about aliens while Jim regurgitates the one piece of scientific information that he knows about worm-holes to each and every one of them whenever they're in. They had Manny Pacquiao in and Jim tried to get him to sing-a-long with a song, because Jim had seen a clip of him doing karaoke.
They sacrifice the credibility of themselves as interviewers the second anyone walks through the door so that Opie can get a 15 second clip of Jim awkwardly hugging them, when the 'bit' was old after the first few times.
Look back at the old interviews that were great to listen to, Ant was always the one asking the questions and leading the interview. Jim would chime in with funny little comments, or inside jokes like Chip or Uncle Paul for the audience. Opie literally didn't speak at all - and now he's the one leading the interviews. It's no wonder that the guests are disinterested and terrible to listen to.
I might agree.... sometimes there was some good shit, and a surprise. But it always made me uncomfortable because they were all very insecure and not up to snuff. I always came for the comedians they sit with, not the celebrities that breezed through.
I might agree.... sometimes there was some good shit, and a surprise. But it always made me uncomfortable because they were all very insecure and not up to snuff. I always came for the comedians they sit with, not the celebrities that breezed through.
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8 DoubleGuns 2015-03-11
Don't confuse bad guests with bad hosts. The majority of the responsibility for whether an interview is interesting or not has to be down to the host. With Opie's distracted mind that can't stay on a topic for more than 30 seconds and Jimmy's child-like, embarrassingly obvious questions; these two would struggle to make any interview compelling.
Like him or hate him, Piers Morgan is an interesting interview... And the only reason why is because he's alpha'd these two weak cucks and took control of the interview right from the off both times, similar to what Larry King did with Opie.
They had Seth Rogen and James Franco right when The Interview was blowing up, and it was an utterly boring conversation where they asked the same questions you'd expect from a morning zoo. They get these highly-respected scientists or physicists in like Neil DeGrasse Tyson or Brian Cox and Opie asks the same questions about aliens while Jim regurgitates the one piece of scientific information that he knows about worm-holes to each and every one of them whenever they're in. They had Manny Pacquiao in and Jim tried to get him to sing-a-long with a song, because Jim had seen a clip of him doing karaoke.
They sacrifice the credibility of themselves as interviewers the second anyone walks through the door so that Opie can get a 15 second clip of Jim awkwardly hugging them, when the 'bit' was old after the first few times.
Look back at the old interviews that were great to listen to, Ant was always the one asking the questions and leading the interview. Jim would chime in with funny little comments, or inside jokes like Chip or Uncle Paul for the audience. Opie literally didn't speak at all - and now he's the one leading the interviews. It's no wonder that the guests are disinterested and terrible to listen to.
8 imcreggschinkell 2015-03-11
I really liked when crocodile dundee came in and talked about juicing
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16 billisinthefridge 2015-03-11
His plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun in...there were no survivors.
8 Cletus_Van_Dam 2015-03-11
You're kiddin.
9 homerj123 2015-03-11
He was run over by a piece of obsolete farming equipment.
3 Binski13 2015-03-11
I never liked any interviews they did even back in o&a days they just aren't good at it.
1 blackirishlad 2015-03-11
I might agree.... sometimes there was some good shit, and a surprise. But it always made me uncomfortable because they were all very insecure and not up to snuff. I always came for the comedians they sit with, not the celebrities that breezed through.
3 Slette 2015-03-11
Not even Artie? I thought that was the most compelling, or at least most anticipated radio the show had done since Ant's sudden death.
2 JCP_1975 2015-03-11
The problem this show suffers from is bad hosts, not good guests. Bennington can interview a chair and it would be funny and / or entertaining.
7 Binski13 2015-03-11
That chairs name is fez and he's trying his best
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1 blackirishlad 2015-03-11
I might agree.... sometimes there was some good shit, and a surprise. But it always made me uncomfortable because they were all very insecure and not up to snuff. I always came for the comedians they sit with, not the celebrities that breezed through.