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Rosie O’Donnell’s talk show ends a day early
SunTimes.com ^
| 29 March 2012
| LORI RACKL
Posted on 03/30/2012 6:59:22 AM PDT by smokingfrog
The short life of “The Rosie Show” got even shorter Thursday when OWN aired the finale of the anemically rated program a day early.
Talk show host Rosie O’Donnell did the equivalent of slipping quietly out the back door when she capped off Thursday’s broadcast not with any parting words, but with a performance by singer Josh Kelley.
Kelley’s performance had been taped — and had aired — a few months ago, back when O’Donnell was doing her show in front of an audience in a much larger space at Chicago’s Harpo Studios.
The show since had been stripped of its live band, game show segments and confetti showers in favor of a small, quiet set where O’Donnell presided over one-on-one interviews.
The retooling couldn’t save the daily talk show, which was drawing fewer than 200,000 viewers on the fledgling Oprah Winfrey Network.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: fail; oprah; rosie
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:02:25 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:03:05 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: smokingfrog
Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life Rosie.
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:03:15 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: smokingfrog
When you are a mean nasty psycho Beyotch people remember these things.
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:03:38 AM PDT
by
verga
(Party like it is 1773)
To: smokingfrog
It figures that a talentless lightweight like Oprah would start a network that's slowing going down the tubes thanks,in part,to having hired a particularly despicable...and talentless...lightweight like Rosie O’Donuts.
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:03:49 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Jimmy Carter Is No Longer The Worst President To Have Served In My Lifetime.)
To: smokingfrog
Oh The Huge Manatee!
Oh, Rosie, oh, girl
Oh, Rosie, oh, girl
Steal away, now, steal away
Steal away, baby, steal away
(courtesy Led Zeppelin......)
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:03:55 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: smokingfrog
Wouldn’t it be too bad if rosie never worked a day more in her lifetime? I wonder if her wife would stay with her then?
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:04:33 AM PDT
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
To: smokingfrog
A tragedy of epic proportions...
Rosie, I mean, not the cancellation of the program. :-)
To: smokingfrog
Reminds me of that episode of Sienfeld where Kramer found the set of Merv Griffens show in the garbage. He took it home and started producing his own talk show in his apartment.
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:08:29 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: smokingfrog
By all logical standards, an entertainer who is not entertaining should not have a job. Rosie O’Donnell is as entertaining as a tax seminar.
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:12:07 AM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: Gay State Conservative
lightweight like Rosie O’Donuts
There are many things I could call Rosie O'Donnell, but "lightweight" isn't one of them.
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:15:49 AM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
To: smokingfrog
It is no surprise, in a nation where Rosie O’Donnell became known as “the queen of nice,” that so many Americans still continue to think that Obama is at heart a nice guy.
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:18:17 AM PDT
by
Maceman
(Liberals' only problem with American slavery is that the slaves were privately owned.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
There are many things I could call Rosie O'Donnell, but "lightweight" isn't one of them. Aaahhh,c'mon...you've gotta have a sense of humor about this stuff! ;-)
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:19:32 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Jimmy Carter Is No Longer The Worst President To Have Served In My Lifetime.)
To: smokingfrog
200k seems like a lot for tripe like what Rosie was dishing out.
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:19:36 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Now that Perry's out, I guess I'll just have to vote for "Generic Republican Candidate")
To: MizSterious
200k seems like a lot for tripe like what Rosie was dishing out. I don't know why Rosie bothers.She could make that (or more) in one night of standing on a street corner in the Castro District.
Well...maybe not! ;-)
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:22:44 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Jimmy Carter Is No Longer The Worst President To Have Served In My Lifetime.)
To: Maceman
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:23:04 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:23:16 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Burning the Quran is a waste of perfectly good fire.)
To: smokingfrog
LOL, she thought it would be easy.
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:36:16 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: Maceman
Oprah is falling just as fast, she just started to fall from a higher place.
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posted on
03/30/2012 7:36:38 AM PDT
by
Average Al
(Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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