So long, Oprah
Good riddance to bad rubbish
LISA THALHEIMER
Opinions Writer
Some time in 2011 we will say a final goodbye to The Oprah Winfrey Show. And I could not be happier.
I find Oprah to be a rude, snobby, stuck-up self-congratulator. She doesn’t let her guests speak for more than 10 seconds before she tries to change the subject on them and she never looks interested in what she is doing.
This isn’t a recent thing that has sprung up because she’s getting bored of the show. Even when I was eight years old and home sick from school, I was annoyed with how rude she was to everyone on her show.
Okay, she gave everyone in the audience a free car and her “Oprah’s Big Give” episodes get the audience a ridiculous amount of free swag, but that doesn’t make her a good talk show host or a good person. I find it ridiculously annoying how most of the publicity the show gets comes from Oprah being the first to talk to someone (usually a celebrity) after a dramatic incident in their life.
Look at competing daytime talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres. She gets her publicity from being a funny person and focusing on the positives in life. At the same time, Ellen is not afraid to tackle heavy subjects on her show like lesbian and gay rights and animal cruelty. While she discusses and tries to improve upon these heavy subjects, it is not just her sitting on a couch tooting her own horn about how great she is for helping the world. Unlike Oprah, Ellen is able to focus in on problems and make her audience recognize how serious they are, all while keeping it lighthearted.
A staple of The Ellen DeGeneres Show is that after her opening monologue, she dances with the audience. Ellen has fun with audience members and lets them participate in almost every episode.
I think Oprah just likes having the camera on herself rather than on some nobody audience member, which is completely ridiculous. She always looks pissed off. I don’t want to see that.
A few weeks back, it was almost painful to watch The Oprah Winfrey Show when she had Ellen on. While Ellen and her wife Portia De Rossi looked relaxed and happy the entire episode, Oprah’s usual and unappealing “why are you talking so much on my show” glare became very obvious. After a montage of funny things that have happened on Ellen’s show, Oprah could not cut to commercial fast enough. That lady needs to relax.
I’m glad that Oprah will say goodbye to daytime TV. I don’t know where I will find my afternoon dose of anger, but I’m sure I can figure something out.
Besides, the world is going to end in 2012 anyway.
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Ellen WORSHIPS Oprah because when Oprah first started, she helped create the trashy talk show industry of the 1980s & 90s (i.e. Ricki Lake, Jenny Jones) which did more to bring gays into the mainstream than any other 20th century development. That’s why Ellen had Oprah play the therapist on the historic coming out episode of her sitcom in the late 1990s. I find Oprah quite funny too with her comments & facial expressions. Oprah can also make me cry like no one else. I never cry watching Ellen.
You think Oprah is afraid of taking on heavy subjects?? My goodness you really don’t know much about her do you?
well to coment on that . oprah acts like she gives away all that stuff in reality the sponseres give the gifts another thing . she seems selfish never haveing kids or someone to share her wealth. strang she also acts like black history is all that matteres what about all the other races and hardships they have gone through . shes not that great of a host seems a little prejidice herself
Agreed with Lisa.
I personally prefer Ellen more.
Well check out when Oprah was on Ellen’s show, she didn’t even give Ellen a chance to talk. It was like Oprah interviewing Ellen. She just kept talking about her dogs.
And she was being so rude at the end of the show, I think she just walked out with Ellen, go grabbed her dogs and walked them.
She also had ridiculous command on her people about getting her boots, and her dogs can’t do sidewalks, etc.
Lastly, I can tell Ellen was nervous when she was on O’s show, and O wasn’t giving E a chance to ask any serious questions, or she just wanted to act like the queen.
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Noboby asked you to watch Oprah and she can say anything she want to say.She hard for everything she has.How many talkshows before her did they give anybody anything.Ellen and Oprah get along fine.DO NOT WATCH HER and stop talking about her.
I love you so much Oprah,just to bad I cant come to your show.I though I will try and get the ticket before going back home South Africa,but I was refused entry.GOD BLESS YOU I LOVE. Ruth .