Larry King is no stranger to on-air banter, but how about real-life heckling?
It's a legitimate concern that the former CNN "Larry King Live" host will have to face when he kicks off a stand-up comedy tour this spring.
The 77-year-old former talk show host will be trying his hand at a different kind of live show - on the stage in front of an audience - when he launches a seven-city tour titled - appropriately - "Larry King: Standing Up."
King's routine will revolve around stories of his "life growing up as a street-smart kid in Brooklyn" and his experiences as a broadcast journalist, according to a statement.
No doubt audiences will be enthralled by his with and self-effacing humility.
Larry King: STANDING UP. The Emmy®, Peabody and CableACE Award-winning broadcasting icon will be giving fans a hilarious and insightful look inside the legend with a series of exclusive, one-night-only performances for audiences across the country. Starting with his life growing up as a street-smart kid in Brooklyn to tales from his storied career as the greatest interviewer of all time, Larry King's style and wit will give audiences an evening to remember. Audiences will also have the extraordinary opportunity to ask their own questions of the broadcast veteran (and now stand up comedian!) in a Q&A with Larry King at each performance
It's pretty clear Jesse Ventura is suffering from something, be it early Parkinson's or just a result of too many steroids and hits to the head as a wrestler. But something else has seeped into his brain. The man is just a freakshow.
Meanwhile, Oliver Stone is there to promote some hagiography of Oliver Stone. King, as usual, is just clueless.
The only respite of sanity is GOP Congressman Connie Mack.
The delusional Ventura, who demands to be called Governor, says Stone's paean to Hugo Chavez should be mandatory viewing in every high school of America. The man is nuts. When Mack challenges his lunacy, Ventura calls it censorship.
Meanwhile, Stone claims Venezuelan media is more free than ours is, despite all evidence to the contrary and owners of television stations being locked up. King is so out of it he probably has no knowledge of this so why even expect a follow-up?
Best chuckle in the second clip comes about five minutes in when Stone says Obama is ethical and rational. Ventura is impressed by Obama because he can read a TelePrompter. Then it descends into name-calling from Ventura. Classy.
Honestly, avoiding any discussion of Larry King doing the nasty is proper editorial judgment if you ask me. Let's face it, you're CNN. You can't afford to have what few remaining viewers there are reaching for the remote.
Anderson Cooper and his crew at CNN had a conspicuous case of amnesia Friday night when they aired a segment on celebrity cheaters including Tiger Woods, Jesse James, Eliot Spitzer, Mark Sanford and David Letterman. "What was striking was who was absent -- Larry King," noticed radio producer Tom Somach. "His cheating scandal got as much press as any of the others. I guess the fact that King has a show on CNN protected him. It was ridiculous and an absurd conflict of interest."
I guess the statute of limitations now applies to Bill Clinton.
Larry King and his wife are so estranged they can’t even agree to divorce at the same time.
The talk show host filed for a divorce Wednesday from Shawn, his wife of 13 years, and minutes later she submitted papers asking for her own divorce, TMZ reported.
The marriage collapsed after Shawn accused Larry of having an affair with one of her close relatives, TMZ said. Cars reportedly screeched out of his driveway after an "explosive argument" at their Beverly Hills home.
"It's a very sad day in Larry's life and he hopes the divorce will be amicable,” Susan Carter, King’s attorney, told the entertainment website.
On one side you have backstabber Scott McClellan, a guy who endorsed Obama in 2008, letting us know how "divisive" the Tea Party is, and on the other side we have David Frum, who recently was drummed out of a conservative think tank for his relentless bashing of conservatives. So where do they show up? Why with the hapless Larry King on the rapidly deteriorating CNN.
McClellan obviously missed the news that the Tea Party is far more popular than Congress. He says they're "marginal" and have limited influence. If that's the case, why is everyone talking about them?
I have to laugh how Frum calls Larry King an important show. The dude is stuck in some 1992 time warp or something.
Did I hear that correctly? Right at the end of this part of an interview of Joe Biden by Larry King did Biden say the current administration wishes to continue to have the success that the previous administration had on their efforts against terrorists?
Joe, Joe, Joe. Didn't you get the memo? All these problems are inherited and nothing done during the previous eight years is worthy of note or praise. They are going to send you to that undisclosed location again.
He does assert that another 9/11-style attack is unlikely, but I hope they don't think for one minute that some radicalized nutjob isn't out there plotting and planning it. There are plenty of Islamic jihadists who fancy themselves the next UBL, and while it is the suicide bombers who do the damage, it is the men behind them who warp their thinking and convince people to commit these acts of barbarism that are the threat.
People like the moderate imam who has figured in so many recent events like the Ft. Hood jihad attack and the attempted bombing of an airplane on Christmas day.
The guys with the bombs we have had pretty good success against. It is the guys who foster their actions that scare me and, quite frankly, I don't want to talk about prosecuting them or reading them their Miranda rights. I would rather they endure about 30 days of good old Medieval Inquisition-style torture and then be taken out back and shot.
But that's just me, and I tend to be a softy sometimes.
Finally, help is on the way for the beleaguered New York Mets.
Jerry Manuel's coaching staff just got a lot bigger.
Boasting more than a millennium's worth of experience, a feisty group of elderly Long Island softball players filmed an instructional video yesterday that they hope will re-introduce the not-so-Amazin' Mets to the game's fundamentals.
"I may not be able to get around like I used to, but I know the basics," said Ed Ottinger, 74, of Seaford. "And I think the Mets need a little help with that."
The rangy outfielder with deceptive speed said that he and his crew of septuagenarian swatters had grown tired of the Mets' bumbling ways and hoped that the Tom Emanski-style video might wake them up.
Things came to a head when the group convened for one of their three weekly doubleheaders after Luis Castillo's infamous flub of a pop-up against the Yankees in June.
"They griped that we're 70 and we're better than these guys," said Howard Cannon, a spokesman for the Bristal assisted living company that sponsors their league.
Sonny Richards, 71, said that the Mets season had come to resemble a blooper reel of dropped pop-ups, baserunning atrocities, and inexplicable balks.
"The players these days don't seem to know the basics of the game," he said. "It's all in fun, but we wanted to show them how to do the simple things."
Yes, the simple things. Like catching popups and busting it to first base, the latter of which they've been allergic to for several seasons. The basics that most of us learned in Little League.
Slick gloveman Sal Frosina, 71, lamented the loss of fundamental baseball knowledge that ruled the summertime pickup games of his youth.
The former Brooklyn Dodgers-turned-Mets fan said that the kids who didn't know the basics of tagging up, putting the body in front of grounders, and backing up plays at the plate were left to watch their buddies have all the fun.
"When I was growing up, if you didn't know the game, you didn't play," he said. "It was that simple."
Speaking of the Mets, if you're waiting for real help on the field rather than fielding abuse from retirees, be prepared to wait a long time.
If you're wondering why the Wilpons won't open their wallets, according to this fish-faced freak, it's because Bernie Madoff cleaned them out to the tune of $700 million.
NO wonder the injury-plagued Mets can't hire some hitters, it turns out team owner Fred Wilpon lost $700 million in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. Estimates put his loss at below $500 million, but Wilpon's pal Larry King told GQ it was $700 million. "Freddie says he's not angry, he's betrayed," said King, who lost $2.8 million.
Don't expect to see Madoff pal Chuckie Schumer throwing out the first pitch any time soon.
Cable hack acknowledges he has a 47-year-old son, but his life was in a swirl way back when so he didn't bother with the kid. What a guy.
LARRY King is going public with the news that he has a son -- Larry King Jr., no less -- he didn't acknowledge for 33 years.
The son -- from a brief, previous marriage to Annette Kaye -- appeared for the first time with King on "Larry King Live" this week.
"I knew there was a Larry King Jr. out there, I'd heard that, but I didn't know he was mine. The marriage was very short and she told me if it's a boy, I'm gonna name him Larry King Jr.," King, 75, told The Post yesterday. "Then I never heard again."
Larry Jr. was born in November 1961.
Why had he never sought out the son? "My life was in a swirl then. I had other children," he explained, alluding to son Andy and daughter Chaia. "I know there was a doubt in my mind that I had a son."
He was probably too busy running from creditors and swindling people.
Meanwhile, King was caught again in yet another lie.
King, who's been married eight times to seven women, also got caught yesterday in a factual discrepancy in his book about winning $8,000 on a horse when he was down on his luck.
He claimed the horse was named Lady Forli and that he saved himself from financial disaster with a timely winning bet at Calder racetrack in 1971.
Turns out Lady Forli wasn't foaled until 1972.
Blame it on memory, King says.
"I think 1971-72 was right, but the essence of the story, of course, is totally correct," he said.
The television laughingstock had a major exclusive last night. Somehow I missed this must-see TV.
Well, once again Larry King's bookers have got the big get -- Levi Johnston is scheduled to be on the CNN show tonight, unless his pickup breaks down in Saskatchewan.
It's billed as an "exclusive" -- at least for this week.
Johnston's such a huge star that LK actually had to wait until after Johnston did the Tyra Banks Show.
But the nation is pretty gosh-darned excited to get maybe its ninth look at this high school dropout hockey player who is said to have impregnated Bristol Palin, the Alaska governor Sarah Palin's teenage daughter. What better reason to put someone on prime-time TV for millions to not watch?
There's nothing like the word "former" to help splinter families wide open, which is great TV entertainment. Watching other families squabble and pretending we don't.
So the former future son-in-law of the former future Republican vice president will undergo probing interrogation by the suspendered one, who's been getting married and remarried and remarried and doing this interviewing gig thing since even before Joe Biden became a senator.
Wardrobe note: On tonight's show everyone will probably be wearing a shirt, unlike on "Cops."
Because most of the nation's TiVos have already been set to record both of the Billy Mays specials tonight, as a public service the Ticket has collected virtually all of Levi Johnston's answers in ...
Following this exclusive interview, CNN actually reported this bombshell.
Teen father Levi Johnston dropped a bombshell into the middle of the escalating family feud between Johnston’s family and the family of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose eldest daughter is the mother of Johnston’s infant son.
In an interview with CNN’s Larry King, Johnston, his mother, and his sister acknowledged that they have a lawyer and are contemplating taking legal action to protect Johnston’s parental rights.
Here on this panel you have Penn Jillette and someone named Stephanie Miller, who Larry King calls very popular, even though I've never heard of her. A really smug, arrogant bitch, to say the least. She's probably some Air America twit with zero ratings. Then you have James Carville. Coupled with King, that's a whole lot of ugly for one television screen.
Anyway, King makes the utterly absurd statement that "somebody's got to think for the masses," an incredibly insipid statement for someone living in America, where individual liberty is our most cherished freedom. Or at least it used to be.
Scroll to after the 5:00 mark for this astonishingly stupid statement.
Hey Larry, maybe someone's got to do the thinking for you, probably your wife telling you when to change your Depends.
But no, I don't need anybody to do my thinking for me, thank you very much.
Is it any wonder this addle-brained, fish-faced freak has no ratings?
Well, isn't this a whole bunch of fun? I was quite amused watching this tonight. I hope you, too, get the same feeling as did I. Is it anyone else but me that thinks Joy is flummoxed by Ann's vocabulary and historical references? Joy tries flippantly to laugh things off, but it's not too convincing.
Here ya go, folks. Enjoy!
There was no contest here. Even Joy's "comedic" skills were like a dull bowling alley shoe compared to Ann's Marine high-gloss dress shoe; I could see my reflection in Ann, but looking at Joy all I could see was swamp water. Heh.
And there's a HILARIOUS P.S. to this Larry King appearance.
Today on The View, Whoopi prompted Joy to promote her guesting for Larry tonight, and Barbara asked Joy about Ann "Are you going to take her on?", to which Joy replied "When you're sitting for Larry, you're objective more or less. I don't give my opinion as much on that show. So I'm perfectly capable of being neutral, but I will question her. Seriously I can!"
Even Whoopi rolled her eyes at THAT one. And as you can see by the previous videos, she was anything but objective. But then again, who expects liberals to keep their word? What a concept...someone keeping their word.
I guess when you have a history of ripping people off, you manage to dummy up when it comes to getting swindled yourself.
ADD Larry King to the ever-lengthening list of people who lost money with Ponz scum Bernie Madoff.
A perfectly placed source said the host of CNN's "Larry King Live" lost "over $1 million with Madoff. It was a lot of money." King's spokesman, Howard Rubenstein, declined to comment.
The personal loss would explain why the usually garrulous King, 75, has been so quiet about the Madoff scandal - even when it was announced that celebrities like Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick were among those who lost their life savings with the Ponzi-scheme mastermind.
It wouldn't be the first time King has faced financial fallout. In 1978, he declared bankruptcy. Page Six reported two years ago that King owed money to creditors in Miami Beach. Joann Biondi, author of "Miami Beach Memories," said, "Some locals snarl at just the mention of his name."
Very few Democrats and their media suck-ups want to mention Madoff, especially since he helped fill their coffers with his stolen money for so many years. At least one of the upsides to the biggest swindle in American history is we've seen much less Chuckie Schumer, one of his primary recipients, and for that we should be thankful.
CNN fossil Larry King has been overwhelmed by hopenchange and now even one of his spawns wants some melanin injections.
CNN's orange-haired septuagenarian chatterbox Larry King has been bowled over by the new Age of Obama, enthusing that his youngest offspring (from his seventh marriage) wants to be black. I guess it's a case of black being, er, the new black.
Interviewing a visibly uncomfortable Bob Woodward on his eponymous CNN show last night, Larry, 75, gushed: "My younger son Cannon, he is eight. And he now says that he would like to be black. I'm not kidding. He said there's a lot of advantages. Black is in. Is this a turning of the tide?"
Who even knew King was still able to procreate in this century. Man, imagine waking up to that fish face every morning. Yikes.
Cannon also asked his daddy if he would lose the suspenders and to please stop shamelessly dropping names.
Paris Hilton plans to appear on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Wednesday night, a day after she's scheduled to be released from jail, a spokeswoman for King said Saturday. "We do have Paris on Wednesday," said the show's spokeswoman, Bridget Leininger. "She'll do the whole hour."
Maybe she'll do King to help spice up the ratings.
