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Tuesday, May 15, 2001

Top Ten Signs You're A Bad Talk Show Host
  
Your typical workday: 1 hour doing show, 4 hours apologizing
Instead of warm embrace, guests greet you with swift kick to the kidney
When you say, "We'll be right back," studio audience starts booing
You spend entire show blabbing about your kids Cody and Cassidy
Your only question for Ellen DeGeneres: "How's your boyfriend?"
Network president would rather hang out with Fidel Castro than you
Best part of the program is when audio guy shows you naked vacation photos
Instead of "Applause," lighted sign reads, "Laugh Or We Release The Bees"
You just don't make guests feel welcome
For your "monologue," you point out audience members you think might be gay
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You're regularly beaten in the ratings by whatever's on that surgery channel

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Instead of R.E.M., you book a couple of guys from UPS

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You ask every guest the same question: "Wanna do it?"

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In trying to explain your erratic behavior, your publicist alternates between the words "exhausted" and "dehydrated"

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About the only thing the Israelis and the Palestinians can agree on is that you suck

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Your first question for every guest is, "And you are...?"

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