Beware of dogs
What can be said about animals on television that hasn’t been said during segments with Joan Embrey on “The Tonight Show” or David Letterman’s “stupid pet tricks?” Were you to ask Oprah, her answer would, no doubt, differ from mine. With Joan Embrey, you’d get the intelligence of a genuine animal expert, and with Letterman, you get clever quips. With Oprah, you get no experts and no clever quips. For an entire hour.
And, again, with the Skype thing? Oprah has more money than several small countries, but she can’t send a professional camera crew to the homes of people (and their pets) she wants to appear on the show? Even when she interviewed Felicity Huffman about her pets, she couldn’t hire a cameraman? In Los Angeles? If I wanted to watch blurry videos, I’d watch the internet. It is cheap. How cheap? Dick Clark would think this was cheap. Now, that’s freakin’ cheap.
Whereas Carson or Letterman simply allowed their audiences to enjoy the cute and/or odd animals, Oprah has to make her audience cry. So between the two legged dog and the dog with no eyes, viewers heard the tale of a puppy mill where 80 dogs were killed because the owner didn’t want to pay the vet to treat them for flea bites. What a downer. Where’s the dog that bowls when you need him? Or the one who howls during the NBC news theme?
Episode Summary:
- Dead puppies aren’t much fun
Tomorrow’s Guest:
Spike Lee… supposedly “live” and probably via Skype
on Sep 25th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
My would-be home state is going to change the law to prevent such an atrocity, but it’s still unclear whether paying a vet would have driven the kenneller into bankruptcy…
on Sep 26th, 2008 at 7:52 am
I like Oprah because she makes me laugh and cry. No other host can provoke such a range of emotions.
on Sep 26th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I agree. Oprah just has a certain quality about her that I like. You can’t teach it, you can’t train it, you can’t recruit it, she just has it. I think she’s sensational.