oprah's last season...

[shockey]

her 25-year reign ends may 25. for several weeks, if not months, the show has ended with a varying montage of oprah 'moments.' it's been like the world's longest, most self-serving farewell column. seems as if every show makes reference to her leaving the airwaves (as if she'll never ve on tv again). it's been way more obnoxious than johnny carson's final season was. every celebrity guest is compelled to take their opportunity to pay homage to the queen, speeches that conclude with the oprah hug and kiss.

has it been over the top? am i the only one hating on these kiss-her-ring moments? ??? ??? ???

discuss....

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I've been hating on Oprah for the last 20 years or so.

Her show, when it first started, was actually very good. People discussed issues, and problems in life. She copied after Phil Donahue, but it was still a good alternative.

Then she jumped the shark. She started having celebs on every other show, started promoting every little product, did her stupid "Know your Spirit" crap, and it turned into a farce.

 

[BYH]

Have we gotten shotglass' approval to express our disdain for Oprah? Or no?

Her show airs here after "General Hospital," which my wife watches on DVR every day. There's nothing better than seeing the opening clip to Oprah displaying the number of shows left. Good riddance. Seven to go now, hooray.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Just because YOU DIDN'T GET A CAR!!!

 

[21]

Can't stand her TV persona, but she has incredible instincts for delivering what her audience wants. When everyone was doing the cheesy 'Who's The Daddy' and 'I Cheated With Your Brother's Daughter's Transvestite Twin,' shows, she went the other way and got to women who really wanted something positive and helpful. Her guests/experts have been consistently solid. She's annoying as hell, but she's done something right.

 

[Brian]

She unleashed Phil McGraw on America and for that alone I hope Steadman Graham outlives her and gets her vast, vast, vast, vast fortune. Vast.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I've always wondered how much of the ubiquity of the Oprah name is by her bidding, and how much is it the creation of safe P.R. people. Either way, it's undoubtedly successful and she's beloved by millions.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I've always wondered how much of the ubiquity of the Oprah name is by her bidding, and how much is it the creation of safe P.R. people. Either way, it's undoubtedly successful and she's beloved by millions.

I see what you did there.

 

[dooley_womack1]

If only I were that clever.

 

[Liut]

She's rented United Center for the finale?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I work with someone who has one of the Oprah cars. Let me go ask her if she is sick of Oprah.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

One of the Georgia papers did a story on when she went to Macon, I think... to do her "Favorite Things" show.

They invited people who were relatively poor. Then she gave them Ugg boots (Big need for those down south) a refrigerator that most of them couldn't fit in their house, $6 cupcakes and some other absurd ****. The article made her look about as stupid as I've ever seen.

 

[shockey]

Can't stand her TV persona, but she has incredible instincts for delivering what her audience wants. When everyone was doing the cheesy 'Who's The Daddy' and 'I Cheated With Your Brother's Daughter's Transvestite Twin,' shows, she went the other way and got to women who really wanted something positive and helpful. Her guests/experts have been consistently solid. She's annoying as hell, but she's done something right.

oh, no question.

i just wish more 'icons' would leave the room quietly. but, hey, it ain't that way in sports so why should i expect more from entertainers? i'm asking way too much of folks worth millions who never are told 'no' by anyone, anywhere, anytime...

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I usually watch once or twice a year. The last time I watched was when Ebert was on.

 

[heyabbott]

Can't stand her TV persona, but she has incredible instincts for delivering what her audience wants. When everyone was doing the cheesy 'Who's The Daddy' and 'I Cheated With Your Brother's Daughter's Transvestite Twin,' shows, she went the other way and got to women who really wanted something positive and helpful. Her guests/experts have been consistently solid. She's annoying as hell, but she's done something right.

If everyone else "...got to women who really wanted something positive and helpful..." she would have went with "...'Who's The Daddy' and 'I Cheated With Your Brother's Daughter's Transvestite Twin,' shows...". She's her version of Barnum, Bailey and Trump.
I am not now nor have I ever been her part of her target audience, so her show and her persona have no meaning for me. She didn't hurt anyone that I know of and made oodles of money for herself and her friends. She is the American dream.

But to all those that deified her, made her a secular saint, **** you.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Can't stand her TV persona, but she has incredible instincts for delivering what her audience wants. When everyone was doing the cheesy 'Who's The Daddy' and 'I Cheated With Your Brother's Daughter's Transvestite Twin,' shows, she went the other way and got to women who really wanted something positive and helpful. Her guests/experts have been consistently solid. She's annoying as hell, but she's done something right.

. . . excepting her extreme naivete regarding dubious and or sloppy book authors . . .

 

[Care Bear]

I see snippets of Oprah on The Soup, and she seems about as full of herself as I was led to believe.

I stopped watching her after the James Frey **** - is he still supposed to appear on her show, or did that already happen?

 

[shockey]

I see snippets of Oprah on The Soup, and she seems about as full of herself as I was led to believe.

I stopped watching her after the James Frey **** - is he still supposed to appear on her show, or did that already happen?

round 2 is today (man, how gay am i for knowing this?) can't believe this clown was THE guest for two of her final shows, considering so few people recognize the name, i'd reckon. i mean, the 'firestorm' he/oprah created was about 5 freakin' years ago.

just another clue about how self-involved oprah and her staff are. yup, long overdue for goodbye. it was a tremendous run, drive home safely so you can continue the 'book club.'

 

[BYH]

Any good Oprah did--and to be fair, she did nothing--would have been negated by unleashing Gayle King upon the world. Without her best friend giving her thousands of opportunities she didn't deserve, Gayle would have been a talentless flash in the pan whose existence may or may not have been fever dreamt by Connecticut viewers. Instead she's gotten talk shows and sidekick gigs on Oprah and I'm sure she'll have a show on the worst network ever when it launches.

Good news though: The seventh-to-last show is airing now!!!!

 

[21]

Okay, media folks at this last taping have been tweeting for five solid hours about who's there. How long can this last? She must have enough material from tonight for a whole new season.