“How much Metamucil does Regis buy?” demanded Kelly Ripa of an audience member who claimed to shop at the same market as Ms. Ripa’s co-host, Regis Philbin, right after a recent Monday morning taping of ABC’s Live with Regis and Kelly. It was a little after 10 a.m., and this sassy piece of dental floss Read More
Conan O’Brien is going to The Tonight Show.
And The Tonight Show is not coming back to New York.
On Tuesday, Sept. 28, NBC’s Late Night host Conan O’Brien stepped onto the stage at Studio 6A at Rockefeller Center and announced to his audience that he would be taking over NBC’s Tonight Show in Read More
Who is the 2003 Media Man of the Year?
This year, in an era devoted to idea distortion and digital degradation, we cite the exception: a 55-year-old comedian cross-referenced in the Indiana Biography Index under “wise guy,” and they weren’t wrong; whose idea was that TV should be better; who, fueled by a driven work Read More
Best wishes on a speedy recovery. Sure was a great run up to the operation. Top form with Hillary. Total class the way you broke the heart news with Regis, who handled it perfectly. Great television.
The people who work for you are too blinded by loyalty to suggest this, Dave, but it’s really in Read More
Dear Dave,
You don’t know me, but we go back a long way. I was one of maybe six people in the nation who caught every episode of your long-forgotten, failed but brilliant Morning Show , the one you did before you switched to late night and became a big star. I loved that morning Read More
At my family’s Passover seder this year, we celebrated the survival of the Jewish people-my grandmother in particular. At the age of 98, she entered New York Hospital on Feb. 11 in severe pain. Her small intestine had become blocked. The doctor in the emergency room gave us two options-either operate and she’d probably die, Read More
