The Toughest Job in Morning TV

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Added: Mon. Jan 04, 2010 1:40pm
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Quad-hosts: Chatter shows always have four hosts.

Tough because your face time is limited. People go into television – especially chatter shows – because they have egos large enough to fill a oil tanker. Having to share that face time with three other people is hard. Plus you have to pretend that you actually like the other person.

Harder yet is to pretend that you are listening and care what they are saying.

Jimmy: “Consuela, have you ever eaten a fingernail?”

Consuela: “Jimmy you are such a tease, of course I have. Our next guest explains how fingernails are the first thing men look at.”

Duke: “That’s not who I look at Consuela.”

Tiffani: “Well, Bob, that’s because you are married to that ugly dude you found during Fleet Week.”

Limited Attention Span of Audience:

Since there is no plot, and the segments are varied, viewers wander in and out with their attention span.

Duke: “Our next guest wore his wife’s underwear on his head for a month and nobody noticed.” Welcome Mr. Trump.

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