Whoopi Goldberg to join The View

[Bombero1956]

This is a good thing in my opinion.


http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/tv/whoopi_to_view_63880.asp

[applegrove]

1. I love her. I think she will be great.

[Subdivisions]

2. Excellent, EXCELLENT choice. I might even watch now! n/T

[Bombero1956]

3. I just noticed

my star is gone and I renewed my monthly donations too.

[ljm2002]

15. Talk to the admins...

...I'm sure they will help you straighten it out.

[Bombero1956]

24. I'll do that

feel nekid without my star.

[Donnachaidh]

4. you mean they are not hiring that walking black hole Kathy Griffin?

You mean I won't be able to watch her whinge on and on and on about her botox, her sex life, and the center of her universe -- herself?

Barbara actually hired someone with political views? Damn! Perhaps the rapture clock should be set back? :sarcasm:

[acmavm]

8. Love Whoppi and like you HATE that Griffin creature.

[tammywammy]

12. Over the weekend I accidentally caught a few minutes of her show

What the heck was that? I was mesmerized for no more than 5 minutes, in awe of something so horrible. That was 5 minutes I'll never get back.

[acmavm]

31. I have no idea what the deal is with that woman. All I know is that

she's rude, boorish, offensive, loud, and untalented.

[Blue Belle]

48. I like Whoopi... and Kathy G.

Yes, she is a little self-absorbed, but she also had the balls to call out the Today show right after they let Anne Coulter spew her vile against the 9/11 widows.

[sandnsea]

16. She's a comedienne, one

And her show pokes fun at the shallowness of Hollywood, two. She's hysterical. Sad you don't get her. In fact, she's such a classic working class Democrat, it helps me to see the problem the party has with the elite snobs. The same ones who sneered at that "Roseanne creature", no doubt.

[tammywammy]

21. Hey, I don't really care for Griffin either

But I love Roseanne.

[sandnsea]

22. Cut from the same cloth

Don't see how you can get one and not the other.

[tammywammy]

35. I get her

I just don't like her. :shrug:

[youthere]

40. I get her...

and I like her...to each his/her own, right?

[tammywammy]

42. Yep

:toast:

[youthere]

49. vive la difference!

:toast:

[Donnachaidh]

27. that's just it - I *do* get her

she's just as shallow as the people she talks about. Oh gee, look at me, I raised $5,000 for a charity. But in the meantime I've made a salary of (put whatever amount she's made in the last year) telling people what a *wonderful* person I was doing that.

She's one of the very many NON-celebrity leeches out there that make Americans look bad in the world.

[sandnsea]

29. No, you don't get her

She's poking fun at herself and her life. She's showing the kinds of things that go on, what people really have to do to be successful in show business. Making fun of it, and herself, in the process.

[itsrobert]

37. You're on target. The others just aren't smart enough

to pick up on it.

[nashville_brook]

47. *hint* -- self-lampooning is what makes it funny

some folks don't get it -- i fear them.

[AndreaCG]

44. Reality shows ARE self centered by their nature

You don't think Kathy Griffin knows that and is sending them up? Stuff like Anna Nicole and Paula Abdul's shows are ripe for satire.

Furthermore, not only is KG quite political (anti-Bush) she has done numerous charitable things like visit the troops in Iraq and put on those shows in the prisons and did meticulous research with the inmates so she could make the shows relevant to them. Do you KNOW how hard it is to craft a new set in a couple of days? Even 10 minutes worth of new jokes? I don't buy that she did them merely for the sake of the show. As for the botox and stuff, most modern comics talk about things in their personal lives. If she's self centered, she doesn't try to hide it. Let's face it, most of us are. I know I am. But I'm also a good friend, nice to my mom (mostly) and a concerned citizen.

I wasn't that familiar with her stand up prior to the reality show but I was so impressed by it. and her relationship with her parents and her assistants.

[nashville_brook]

46. KG does political matierial -- you obviously don't *get* her -- your loss

oh, and, "walking black hole" is downright offensive.

[Staph]

5. I love it!

Whoopi will destroy that little republican ditz!

[goclark]

23. Go get her Whoopi !

[Bombero1956]

6. I can hear it now

when she nails that repuke idiot

" I'm not Star Jones honey"

[Warren Stupidity]

7. She and that AwfulBot woman will last five minutes.

I'm wondering if Whoopi even knows what she is getting into.

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. I wonder too. Whoopi will probably last as long as Rosie did and

bu$hbot Hasselbeck isn't going anywhere. Sad.

[snacker]

9. Whoopi is a little too mellow for me.

I saw her cohost one time when Elisabeth and Joy were arguing about flip-flopping. Elisabeth was talking about Mitt Romney and Joy said he was a flip-flopper. Elisabeth quickly mentioned John Kerry and an argument ensued. Whoopie said that two wrongs don't make a right and that just because Republicans accused Kerry of flip-flopping, doesn't mean Democrats should point a finger at Romney. She lost me then and there...

[Cirque du So-What]

10. I'm not a viewer

but I hear about the show on DU and occasionally from coworkers. I'm glad that Whoopi's formidable voice will join the panel as a counterbalance to Elisabeth Hasselbeck's unabashed neocon apologia.

[Bluestar]

11. I like Whoopi but I hear that Sherri Shepherd is going to be

named a co-host also (on our local entertainment news this a.m.). Sherri irritates me to death. I don't know if I can stand watching Whoopi if Sherri is there. I like Kathy Griffin--it's weird, I'm a 58-year-old woman and I seem to have the same sense of humor as the male gays Kathy appeals to!

[sandnsea]

20. Me too

I don't know Sherri Shepherd though. I love Kathy's quick wit, she's hysterical.

[BlooInBloo]

13. Woohoo! The View threads are back! The View threads are back!

[CatWoman]

45. LOLOLOLOLOL

You are too much :)

:hi:

[scarletwoman]

14. Meh... She was on the View as a guest host just a week ago or so, I was decidedly unimpressed.

In fact, quite a number of her statements had me scratching my head and thinking WTF?

She didn't come off to me as being particularily well-informed or well-spoken. She seemed to me to be a somewhat shallow thinker, basically making "conventional wisdom" type of pronouncements -- which frankly surprised me, as I had been under the impression (mistaken, apparently) that she had a bit more on the ball than that.

In any case, The View is a truly execrable show with only rare and fleeting nano-moments of something vaguely resembling worthwhile discussion. Just my humble opinion, of course...

sw

edited for speeling ;)

[sandnsea]

17. She will be excellent

She's a much more measured person than Rosie so I think she'll make the most important points and leave some of the conspiracy theories unsaid, as they should be if you want to keep your national platform.

[hashibabba]

18. I like Whoopi and I might even tune in once in a while to watch.

Maybe when she was guesting, she didn't think it was appropriate to mouth off at the blonde. Hopefully now, she'll give it to her between both eyes. We can only hope.

[TahitiNut]

19. Shit! Damn! Now, I'll be seduced into watching that program!

That's NOT what I need ... but Whoopi is one of my favorite peoples.

[Swamp Rat]

25. I LOVE Whoopi!!!!! ... I hope she beats the shit out of that dumb blond.

Rhetorically. :D :loveya:

[Norquist Nemesis]

26. SWEET!!!

I might even try to catch a few airings.

[Dinger]

28. I wonder What Their Ratings Are Since Rosie Left?

In fact, what about Olbermann's vs. o'lielly's?? Where does one go to find ratings for t.v. shows?

[ronnykmarshall]

30. Madam Whoops will be great on the show.

I wish Kathy Griffin could also be one.

But I'd rather watch Kathy on her own show.

That woman is a scream.

[a kennedy]

32. Count me as another love Kathy Griffin fan.....

love her show, and love the premis of the D List, and what she has to do to get on the "A" list like her date with Sanjaya!! I cried at that one. Loved the final show with her going to Ireland. I think she great.

[terrya]

33. I think Kathy Griffin talks about her appearance on "The View" in her act.

And if it was true (I didn't see it), she WON'T be invited back.

I love Kathy Griffin. She is a scream!

And Whoopi is a good choice for "The View".

[ronnykmarshall]

41. That's right ..

She also pissed off Star Jones when they co-hosted E!'s red carpet coverage of the Emmy's (or Golden Globes) a few years ago.

God I love Kathy!

[debbierlus]

34. Love Whoopi - maybe she would add some real dialogue

[RB TexLa]

38. Does this show really have significance?

I've never seen it except for some clips linked here of Rosie O'Donnell and someone talking back and forth over the war.

[Forkboy]

39. I never found her overly funny or anything,but she's a smart,good person.

I remember first seeing her do her show on HBO like a hundred years ago (ok,the mid 80's) and it wasn't stand up but her doing multiple characters,a lot like Eric Bogosian,someone else I like.She was amazing,and I wish she had stuck to doing more of that (if she did more stuff like that,I never sa it,sadly).

She is capable of some good,sarcastic zingers though,and I hope you good people will report those directed at the moran back to those of us who don't watch. :)

[mzmolly]

43. Awesome!!!

:toast: I LOVE Ms. Goldberg!