I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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Someday I would really love to do a talk show. That's something I've always been interested in. I like to talk, and I love to help people.
I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.
Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn't possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.
Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.
Since I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a talk show host.
To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
All my life, all I've wanted to do was a talk show, and I've done it for most of my life. Now to break away from that is kind of a challenge.
I've been so fortunate in my career and my own life just to have all these opportunities, and the talk show has always been one of my favorite formats.