I have said many times that I prefer to watch hard news. I don’t like nonsense.
I watched Hannity and Colmes because hard-edged political debate brought current issues to the surface in a forceful way.
Yet with the departure of Alan Colmes, Sean Hannity has filled part of his program with what he calls his “Great American Panel.” The panel contains some of the most random combinations imaginable.
It reminded me of one episode of “Politically Incorrect” with Bill Maher many years ago. Arianna Huffington was the resident conservative at the time. Next to her was rock star Jesse Dupree, the lead singer of Jackyl. I do not even remember the conversation. I just wondered who thought of pairing Ms. Huffington and Mr. Dupree.
An episode of “Cheers” made fun of the Cable Ace Awards when the announcer called out, “and now, Margaret Thatcher and L L Cool J.”
The first Great American Panel contained rock star Meatloaf. Recent panels have contained Tony Danza among others. Yet Hannity finally allowed the truly bizarre to take over.
The panel consisted of former Virginia Governor George Allen, Democratic strategist Kirsten Powers…and comedian Gilbert Gottfried.
Like many people, I thought, “what the heck is Gilbert Gottfried doing on Hannity?”
As I said, I like hard news, and abhor nonsense. Yet by the time this show was over, I was thrilled I had watched it. In the same way David Letterman would just give up when Howard Stern got going, Sean Hannity realized that he had lost control of the show the moment Gilbert Gottfried spoke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlgVAQ8v20M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODrIhQbHtDI
When Hannity and Powers were debating health care and the budget, Hannity turns to Gottfried and asks, “Are you following this by the way?”
Gottfried replied, “No, I wasn’t listening, but she (Powers) is kinda hot. Yeah, I’d definitely do that.”
Later on Hannity asked Gottfried, “Do you have any opinions about this bailout bill at all?”
Gottfried replied, “No, but I was told if I sit here long enough I get a ‘Hanging with Hannity’ coffee mug.”
Gilbert Gottfried will be inflicting himself on tour at several locations.
http://www.gilbertgottfried.com/
Fox News will never be the same.
Like Mr. Hannity, I cannot begin to think about what to add. I just know that it was a riot watching that panel.
eric
Meatloaf is Awesome.
Almost makes me wish I had a tv.
Almost.
I saw that episode, it was hiilarious watching Gilbert just take the whole studio by surprise. You could hear the crew in the background just rollin.
When asked about steroid use Gilbert said “nah my penis is already too small”
Man, I swear , you just know that Hannity was freaking more than he would let on.
G. Allen was sitting there probably trying his best to keep his composure also, Powers looks like she could actually be a liberal with sense of humor
Finally, Hannity finds his niche! That was the most substantial Hannity show scenes ever!
JMJ
As soon as I heard Gottfried was going to be on that panel I knew I must watch, and I wasn’t disappointed. I was hoping that George Allen would scream “macaque”; that would have been the only thing that could have topped the GG takeover of the show.