RIP Larry King

[Baron Scicluna]

Another one gone.

 

[TigerVols]

“Goodbye, Sheboygan!”

 

[Scout]

Only 87?

RIP

 

[wicked]

Toledo, hello!

I didn’t know until a few years ago that he did color on Dolphins games early on.

 

[BTExpress]

Probably said the wrong thing in his new gig and got poisoned, amirite?

 

[DanOregon]

Between him and Regis and Hugh Downs, (edit - can't believe I forgot Trebek) that's a lot of broadcasting hours lost in the last year. Lost two kids in the last year. RIP Larry. Long-time fan. One-time caller.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Bye Larry, loved your show

Larry King, legendary talk show host, dies - CNN

 

[Songbird]

Toledo, hello!

An obvious " ... at St. Peter's Gate" cartoon.

 

[maumann]

Kept me company on my early morning newspaper deliveries on the Mutual Broadcasting Network. And before that, as a Miami radio personality. Childhood friend of Sandy Koufax, as he mentioned frequently.

RIP, Larry.

 

[Chef2]

Only 87?

RIP

But enough about his number of wives.

 

[Songbird]

I was working in Jamaica, stoned as hell one night after work, watching Larry King, who had on Donald Trump.

It was that interview that crystalized who Donald Trump was.

Larry King said Trump had built the second largest building in Chicago (or maybe the country, can't remember which).

And without missing a beat Trump came back with "The biggest since World War II."

And that is Donald Trump in a nutshell: never second in anything, always angling and using facts to prop himself up as the best.

Trump's chest puffing in that moment amused me and I took another hit from the J.

 

[matt_garth]

" ... Or when Larry King, the talkmeister, goes around telling stories about how they were buddies back in high school. The story King tells most often is the Carvel story: an innocuous tale of high school joyriding to New Haven, Connecticut, to buy Carvel ice cream, Koufax's favorite, for 15 cents a scoop. The only problem with the story is it never happened. David Finkel, a reporter at the Washington Post, working on a profile about King, wanted to hear Koufax's version. A couple of days later, 'the recluse' returned his call, setting the record straight. 'This is Sandy Koufax,' he said. 'I've never been to New Haven.'" -- "Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy" by Jane Leavy

Kept me company on my early morning newspaper deliveries on the Mutual Broadcasting Network. And before that, as a Miami radio personality. Childhood friend of Sandy Koufax, as he mentioned frequently.

RIP, Larry.

 

[MileHigh]

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, hello.

RIP to a broadcasting legend, and a husband to many.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

It won’t happen, but it would be nice if siriusXM or radio.com set up a channel of his old radio shows, which were gold back then.

I wonder if Heaven has a Duke Zieberts.

 

[Alma]

It won’t happen, but it would be nice if siriusXM or radio.com set up a channel of his old radio shows, which were gold back then.

I wonder if Heaven has a Duke Zieberts.

It’d be nice if there were a similar show now, as opposed to the Tucker Carlsons and Chris Cuomos of the universe.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

" ... Or when Larry King, the talkmeister, goes around telling stories about how they were buddies back in high school. The story King tells most often is the Carvel story: an innocuous tale of high school joyriding to New Haven, Connecticut, to buy Carvel ice cream, Koufax's favorite, for 15 cents a scoop. The only problem with the story is it never happened. David Finkel, a reporter at the Washington Post, working on a profile about King, wanted to hear Koufax's version. A couple of days later, 'the recluse' returned his call, setting the record straight. 'This is Sandy Koufax,' he said. 'I've never been to New Haven.'" -- "Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy" by Jane Leavy

a "scoop" of carvel?

 

[User 149557]

One of the great Onion pieces ever:

I Am ****ing Insane

His columns were really a Trump speech before Trump speeches, pinballing from random thought to random thought.

 

[heyabbott]

He was what he wanted to be, A Legend.

sneaky tall.

RIP

 

[HanSenSE]

In the 80s, on my first job in the business, I had an old Pinto with a five-button AM radio. The only thing interesting I could find at night besides sports was the King show. I became hooked. Always drew something out of his interview subjects that I never knew, but the open phone hours were gold, everything from politics to baseball.

 

[DanOregon]

Seems like Katie Couric would be a natural for the "one-on-one" interview show - whether for a cable news show or whatever. King's gone, Charlie Rose is toast. It's right there for the taking if anyone wants it.