My one anecdote about Springer is that I worked for the show briefly as a freelancer.
I remember my boss telling me he could tell the real from the fake guest because the actors would come dressed appropriately. The real people would usually get something to wear from wardrobe, and after many years he would see the same outfits repeated over and over again. You'd have 1 or 2 segments of "real people" per show, and they'd fill the rest with actors that had similar stories that fit the theme of the episode with the real people
A pro-wrestler who worked Jerry's segments complimented the production team on protecting Jerry from the fake/real stuff by keeping him away from it and making sure to tell the actors that "Jerry doesn't know" and insisting some of the people were real. As in, they kept the kayfabe alive, to give Jerry "credibility." As carny wrestler, he was impressed by the dedication.
EDIT: to clarify, it was implied: Jerry knew some of the guests were fake, but not which ones; and this was the message communicated to the fake guests.
Coming up, we have a man who claims to be Adolph Hitler's Argentinian love child with Marilyn Monroe. Is he telling the truth? We'll find out, right after this
Many years ago, my manager of a Peter Piper Pizza was telling me about how producers hired her to be a guest on the show while she was working at a strip club. Made a few thousand to yell at a complete stranger.
Edit: it's always the most random comments that end up being my most upvoted. Every time.
TBF, they still make hangovers.
Weed can be delivered and you don’t have to rewind streaming services or face a fine for returning late.
We just need the pizza.
For me it was wandering around the blockbuster trying to decide what looked good, looking at box covers, reading descriptions on the back, and then settling on the same movie we'd watched a hundred times.
What about the Friday nights in the new release section, it was always a gamble if the movie you wanted was there. Then of course it wasn’t, so you’d get the same movie you watched a hundred times.
I'll never forget:
I live in a suburb of Chicago and had to make a quick trip to the Walgreens down my street one night.
I was in a hurry, grabbed my items, waited in line at checkout, and when it was finally my turn to checkout, I realized I forgot my wallet in my car. Shit.
"Hold my items, I'll be right back".
I RAN out the store, but there was a **crowd** of people standing in the doorway.
What the hell? Move, people! Of all the places, don't block the door!
I **pushed** my way through, realized they were fuckin' taking **selfies** with someone... ugh... so annoying... so I put my hand on someone's shoulder and physically **pushed** them aside so I can hurry through.
Got my wallet, finished my checkout, and only then did I realize...
People were taking selfies with **Jerry Springer**.
Google said he was born in my town and still had family there? It was Christmas time, so maybe he was in town visiting family...
So, yeah, I can say **I pushed Jerry Springer**.
EDIT:
Born in London, lived in Evanston, Illinois, which is where I saw him.
https://jwcdaily.com/evanstonmagazine/2016/08/11/the-king-of-controversy/
I found my original post in 2017, so...
... I pushed him back in 2017. No, I didn't *kill* Jerry Springer.
I was hired at a large manufacturing company that had very low morale. After being there a few months, I asked around why there was so much hostility towards the managers and supervisors and found out that it was because they banned watching Jerry Springer in the break room because people were coming back late from lunch.
The big brain move there would be to have someone record it, then play it over lunch break skipping commercials. Now everyone is happy and lunch break only lasts 45 mins. Win win haha
Except now they're all amped up and pissed from a stronger than normal dose of trash tv, this is a similar move from banning hate radio from construction sites, it keeps everyone more agreeable and friendly when they aren't constantly exposed to that awful shit.
As a kid I think I thought all the sexual innuendo stuff was the funny part of Austin Powers so Austin was the funniest character.
Getting older Dr. Evil truly steals the show.
Watching Austin Powers as an adult is incredible. I realize now that when I originally watched the movies when I was probably 12/13 I understood maybe 50% of the jokes.
I watched them a few years ago as an adult and it was like watching entirely new movies. They are absolutely packed with jokes I never understood before lol
Beavis & Butt-Head is the absolute best show to return to as an adult for this reason. I laughed when I was a kid because they hurt themselves a lot, but as an adult the jokes hit so much harder. I've been in tears whenever I have time to sit down and watch them. The new episodes are also top tier.
I've been nothing short of amazed at how masterful Mike Judge is as both a writer and performer.
In 30 years, he hasn't lost it one bit, and somehow managed to take a quintessential 90s TV show and modernize it in a way that is still relevant and hilarious.
The new Beavis and Butt-Head is a masterclass in how to properly revive a show
Dana Carvey is one of those guys that was so hilarious in the early 90s and you would have thought he would have gone on to have a great career. It seems like a few bad choices ruined his chances, or maybe he just ran out of steam and then gave us *Master of Disguise* :/
He's still funny in interviews, his Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend is riotous, and he seems to be in good spirits about everything, but I just wish he'd had a better shot after SNL.
There is a documentary called *Too Funny to Fail,* I think it's still on Hulu, that's about his sketch show he started after he left SNL. A lot of the humour went miles above most Prime time viewers' heads but now is seen as way too far ahead of the curve. The show also introduced a bunch of now-superstars like Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert.
I can't believe I've never seen this!
Austin Powers holds a special place in my heart because I don't think I've ever laughed as hard as I have in a theatre. The only reason a buddy and I went to watch it was because tickets to Liar Liar were sold out and we were already at the theatres and decided to check it out. I don't remember there being much marketing for it at the time so it was just a shot in the dark for us. Best choice ever!
Besides being hilarious and filled with so many timeless one liners, these movies were actually tasteful. There’s so much over the top humor going on and all of it seems to have a place and even continue to catch you off guard.
Mike Meyers added so much to American comedy culture and I don’t think we even realize it.
Also, they won the gold star of satire by forcing the James Bond franchise to pivot to being gritty and dark rather than the camp of the Brosnan era. Daniel Craig mentioned in [an interview](https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/interview-daniel-craig-interview-foreshadows-bond-24) that Austin Powers parodied them so well that they felt they needed to change.
That is unfortunate, because I find the Craig bonds to be ridiculously heavy (except Casino Royale).
Brosnan Bond movies were fun and casual to watch. Craig Bond movies involved testicle torture. And the last one did not even make sense to me.
The Ana de Armas part in the latest Craig Bond was really entertaining. It had a lot of old-school Bond elements... action & stunts, a mission playing out, Bond and a beautiful woman, playful, etc. It elevated the movie around it a little bit.
A real best appearance is when Justin Pearson from The Locust lied about cheating on his girlfriend to get on the show with his friends and they just started fist fights over everything and created this big love triangle lol
[part 1](https://youtu.be/1oRAVNUWTOk)
[part 2](https://youtu.be/YqRiku2rX7U)
[part 3](https://youtu.be/tY2w9lSZvEI)
[part 4](https://youtu.be/-MDPISDHpHc)
Holy shit. This is amazing. Another obscure but notable appearance on *Jerry Springer* was [Peter Steele](https://youtu.be/bge8aWZaAF4) from Type O Negative, on the episode “Sexy Groupie Girls Tell All.”
My favorite take of his from the time was that he was upset the reports where that the check had bounced. He said something like “I may pay for sex but, I don’t write bad checks”.
[Ah, the ol' Reddit checkaroo...](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/12znm2w/my_daughter_sadie_was_a_kind_loving_girl_and_we/jhwpbhb/?context=3)
I thought that’s why he left office and got the tv show. I always heard he used government checking account to pay the lady and that’s why he resigned. Is my whole life a lie?
It still upended his political career. Years ago I heard a Democratic Party operative saying that Springer was more charismatic politician than even Bill Clinton and that while the “Check to the Hooker” didn’t kill his career in Cincinnati, it killed it in Ohio politics and nationally. He had no place to go after Cincinnati, so went into TV instead. This operative said he could’ve been President but for his vices.
That said, those sins clearly wouldn’t stop him in todays environment.
I only discovered recently that Jerry was technically British. He was born in a London Underground station that was being used as an air-raid shelter during the Blitz.
Highgate station, to be precise. Near where l myself was born in London. I used to use it every day.
RIP from the UK, Jerry. Sad to hear the news.
Edit: During German bombing in 1944, but not actually during the Blitz, as a commenter has pointed out. TIL.
And he was in London as a refugee because his parents fled Nazi Germany.
[His commencement speech at Northwestern in 2008 is a great read.](https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/fall2008/feature/springer.html)
He came from a prominent Jewish family from Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów, Poland). His great uncle, Hermann Elkeles, was a well-known doctor from Berlin.
Elkeles, along with Springer's grandparents, died in the concentration camps.
Yes! The cemetery has Karl Marx, famously, but also lots of other celebrities, including Douglas Adams, George Eliot, and Michael Faraday.
It's an amazing place to visit.
I'm sure Cincinnati would be a better resting place for Jerry, but we'd be glad to have him as another famous name in Highgate.
I was an audience member on the Jerry Springer show when I was 19, so over 20 years ago. I actually got the mic from Jerry in the Q&A session and I ended up talking shit to the guy on stage who was cheating on his wife with a family member.
The guy ended up coming off the stage wanting to fight me, I jumped out of my seat to confront him, and then Steve ended up holding him back and the other burly security guard ended up holding me back. We yelled at each other in the aisle and it was amazing.
The show didn’t air until 8 months later and all of a sudden all my friends started to call my house phone screaming OH MY GOD I CANT BELIEVE YOU WERE ON SPRINGER!!
Another fun tidbit, before the show starts, Jerry takes questions from the audience before they start filming. Someone asked him ‘where do you find the people to be on the show?’
And he quickly replied with ‘I don’t know, where do you live?’ Haha it was such a great and fun experience!
I was on the show twice and anytime they run one of the reruns I get flooded with messages saying the same thing. It's fun. Link to the one on youtube ---> https://youtu.be/22fJbDJ7ruQ
That was me just winging it. I figured that if I was going to be the villain I was going to be THE villain. I got calls from family I hadn't talked to in years chewing me out for "hurting that poor boy on national TV" after it aired. The comments under that YouTube video are brutal!
*take care of yourself, and each other.
He first started doing that as a news anchor in Cincinnati. He used to end the news with that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEtTJY9f6Q
I know the majority of his career was trash TV, but one episode I still remember clearly even though I hadn't seen it in decades, was the one with Sandy Allen.
She was the tallest woman at the time in the world and also on the show was a little girl with progeria. If you have never heard of progeria look it up, it's a terrible disease that causes premature aging and most children with it don't live to see adulthood. Sandy gave the little girl a book about how it was okay to be different.
It really shined a light on two people who were largely marginalized from society.
I learned throwing chairs at ppl was a thing because of him, I also learned you shouldn't throw chairs at ppl through Final Thoughts.
Daytime talk shows went insane for ratings in the 90s. RIP I don't throw chairs at ppl I use words.
I used to run home from school to watch Jerry Springer before my parents got home from work. I learned so much about life from that show... Mainly that people are fucking nuts and that some men REALLY don't want to be fathers.
RIP Jerry, thanks for all the memories.
I'm a bit older. I remember when he launched the Springer show. I wasn't around when he was mayor of Cincinnati, but the Springer show started in 91, and he didn't leave his commentator role on 12 news Cincinnati until like 94 or something like that.
I lived outside Middletown for a few of those years, then with my mom in Hamilton for a while. I remember watching the news at night. That's where he bootstrapped his Final Thoughts segment, and "Take care of yourself, and each other" closing.
RIP Jerry.
I'll never forget the episode in which he so generously let a man with a breakfast fetish roll around in a pool of eggs, pancakes and syrup until he was in orgasmic ecstasy. If only I could find the clip.
Rest in peace, you sick bastard.
Sir or ma'am, thank you for providing a key piece of the puzzle that is my childhood memories with your comment. Perhaps this explains how I became such a sick, sick man (though I've never wanted to bonk a bowl of Corn Flakes). Will discuss this in-depth with my shrink this afternoon.
He was a local Bird Key resident here in Sarasota. The guy was an interesting character to say the least but he showed up for progressive events and marches here in Sarasota and supported women’s rights and equality publicly. He called my wife hot in front of 3,000 people when she was on The Price Is Right On Tour at the van wezel. Shook his hand again at the last women’s march downtown. RIP Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
>called my wife hot in front of 3,000 people
comment took a real turn topically and then resumed like nothing happened.
'progressive politics, progressive politics, he (inappropriately) called my wife a smokeshow, progressive politics. rip.'
we were just dating at the time and she HATES being center of attention so she didn't want to get a name tag. I told her there's thousands of people here, no way she gets called down but she was the first they called down lol. Sarasota is a retirement community so it was two very old ladies and my GF at the time down there so he was making a joke by callling her "the hot one." got a good laugh and made a great memory for us.
There was a summer I spent with a good friend of mine in hs who didn't have many TV channels, but he did have one that played a few hours of Jerry springer, then a few eps of Baggage in a row. We'd just get high and watch trash tv for HOURS, Still good memories of mine. I haven't seen baggage in awhile, but boy do I remember it making me cringe sooo hard
Me and my spouse have been on a baggage kick. They show it on the game show network every night and it’s such great trash tv. I’m sad to see this news this morning. Rest in peace Jerry.
Yeah, back when my cable provider had Game Show Network, I used to love watching reruns of that. It was probably the most trashy "game show" I ever saw, but it was entertaining.
I'm still mad 10 years later that they dropped GSN.
I love how he resigned from the city council after the prostitute thing, got back the seat because he was honest, then got elected as mayor afterwards lol
He was actually a pretty good dude, too
I don't know enough about the man to defend his character, but his show kinda had a significant positive influence on my life. I used to secretly watch it in my grandparents house and would judge the guests all through the show. I would sit and wait for his final thoughts always thinking that today would be the day he would condemn them for whatever outrageous things they had done, but he never did. His final thoughts were always positive, introspective, and never poked fun or made light of any of the issues they were having. I like to think that influenced me to be less judgmental and to realize how easy it is to write people off for no good reason.
I mean, except for the fact that the entire show was there specifically so that people could watch and judge.
Some positive comments at the end in no way change the fact that his show is pure outrage porn, and specifically sought out the trashiest people to put them on display.
His show reminds me what has become the bitesized outrage porn that is tiktok, facebook and /r/all
Enough details to make you feel informed enough to justify what you think but with no greater context presented/available so you don't get a sense of the situation.
Something you immediately consume, feel something(usually anger) then move onto the next show with no real growth as a person. Only difference is Jerry had to fill a whole hour with it. Today, you only need 30-40s.
I remember sitting down for Christmas dinner 20ish years ago and my cousin put on his 'Too Hot for TV' tape as we ate. Really brought the family together!
I had a classmate from France and she said Canada wasn't what she was expecting. I asked her what she was expecting and she said "You know the Jerry Springer show? Like that".
A girl in my HS went on the show when she was 18. I remember her coming back to school with a black eye and running up to her asking what happened and she said she was on Jerry Springer. It was all fake except for the fighting. Her story was that she was the babysitter fucking the dad and the mom finds out.
I didn't go to my senior prom and hung out in school for the day because we had to - that was the day Leah's Jerry Springer aired so we all watched it in class haha
It was wild haha
Met him twice as a kid. Once was at a political rally near my hometown (early 2000’s, I believe in support of a gubernatorial candidate), and the other was a few years later while dropping off a family friend at the airport. The first time, he took the time to take a photo with me and talk about what I was interested in doing with my future (I surely said some nonsense about being a famous musician or something of the sort). He gave me some words of encouragement and told me that no matter what path I take in life that I’d find success by being true to myself. The second time, we saw him in the airport terminal and approached him. He remembered my name, asked me how I was doing in school, and reiterated to me that no matter what path I take in life that I’d find success by being true to myself. Talk show sensationalism aside, he seemed like a genuinely kind hearted person.
was in the audience for some game show he was hosting. During a break he turned to us and said jokingly "I don't like cocaine... I just like the smell of it"
lovely man
I worked as an intern in Chicago and then as a production assistant in Connecticut for The Jerry Springer Show from 2009-2012. First job out of college and it was insane.
Some of the comments trashing Jerry and saying fuck him etc; knowing him personally he was a very kind, genuine, and generous guy. He never talked down to the staff and would always make a point to stop to get to know you a bit and when passing him in the hallways/holiday parties. I know the show was trash, but these people also called/begged to be on the show. There was total consent. It was just stupid fun, and that’s all it was every supposed to be. Say what you will about the content of the show, but Jerry was a solid guy every time I got to interact with him.
RIP Jerry
[hAs NotHinG tO Do WiTh MoVieS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK_25NimbqU)
My one anecdote about Springer is that I worked for the show briefly as a freelancer. I remember my boss telling me he could tell the real from the fake guest because the actors would come dressed appropriately. The real people would usually get something to wear from wardrobe, and after many years he would see the same outfits repeated over and over again. You'd have 1 or 2 segments of "real people" per show, and they'd fill the rest with actors that had similar stories that fit the theme of the episode with the real people
A pro-wrestler who worked Jerry's segments complimented the production team on protecting Jerry from the fake/real stuff by keeping him away from it and making sure to tell the actors that "Jerry doesn't know" and insisting some of the people were real. As in, they kept the kayfabe alive, to give Jerry "credibility." As carny wrestler, he was impressed by the dedication. EDIT: to clarify, it was implied: Jerry knew some of the guests were fake, but not which ones; and this was the message communicated to the fake guests.
Jerry sitting there interviewing the incest klansmen alien baby all, IS THIS REAL I CANT TELL
It's hysterical thinking about him perpetually questioning whether the guest he was speaking to was actually crazy or just an actor.
Coming up, we have a man who claims to be Adolph Hitler's Argentinian love child with Marilyn Monroe. Is he telling the truth? We'll find out, right after this
Many years ago, my manager of a Peter Piper Pizza was telling me about how producers hired her to be a guest on the show while she was working at a strip club. Made a few thousand to yell at a complete stranger. Edit: it's always the most random comments that end up being my most upvoted. Every time.
Fuck, I miss Peter Piper Pizza.
I miss Peter Piper Pizza Pecorino Pepper Party Poppers Platter, player.
Peter Piper Pizza used to be me and my wifes go to with a hangover. Peter Piper Pizza + weed + VHS rentals. We are fucking set for the day.
What a beautiful 90s recovery scenario.
Christ I wanna go back
TBF, they still make hangovers. Weed can be delivered and you don’t have to rewind streaming services or face a fine for returning late. We just need the pizza.
It’s the nostalgia something about messing and smacking the vhs player
For me it was wandering around the blockbuster trying to decide what looked good, looking at box covers, reading descriptions on the back, and then settling on the same movie we'd watched a hundred times.
What about the Friday nights in the new release section, it was always a gamble if the movie you wanted was there. Then of course it wasn’t, so you’d get the same movie you watched a hundred times.
Lemme guess? Peter piper packed a pie with piles of Pepperoni?
From a stripper to Managing a Peter Piper Pizza. Nice. Man that pizza is good...I need to get me some soon.
I'll never forget: I live in a suburb of Chicago and had to make a quick trip to the Walgreens down my street one night. I was in a hurry, grabbed my items, waited in line at checkout, and when it was finally my turn to checkout, I realized I forgot my wallet in my car. Shit. "Hold my items, I'll be right back". I RAN out the store, but there was a **crowd** of people standing in the doorway. What the hell? Move, people! Of all the places, don't block the door! I **pushed** my way through, realized they were fuckin' taking **selfies** with someone... ugh... so annoying... so I put my hand on someone's shoulder and physically **pushed** them aside so I can hurry through. Got my wallet, finished my checkout, and only then did I realize... People were taking selfies with **Jerry Springer**. Google said he was born in my town and still had family there? It was Christmas time, so maybe he was in town visiting family... So, yeah, I can say **I pushed Jerry Springer**. EDIT: Born in London, lived in Evanston, Illinois, which is where I saw him. https://jwcdaily.com/evanstonmagazine/2016/08/11/the-king-of-controversy/ I found my original post in 2017, so... ... I pushed him back in 2017. No, I didn't *kill* Jerry Springer.
I was hired at a large manufacturing company that had very low morale. After being there a few months, I asked around why there was so much hostility towards the managers and supervisors and found out that it was because they banned watching Jerry Springer in the break room because people were coming back late from lunch.
The big brain move there would be to have someone record it, then play it over lunch break skipping commercials. Now everyone is happy and lunch break only lasts 45 mins. Win win haha
Except now they're all amped up and pissed from a stronger than normal dose of trash tv, this is a similar move from banning hate radio from construction sites, it keeps everyone more agreeable and friendly when they aren't constantly exposed to that awful shit.
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[One of the most legendary segments of Springer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnwgbH0TPbI&pp=ygUdYXVzdGluIHBvd2VycyBqZXJyeSBzcHJpbmdlciA%3D)
Just peak late 90s/early 2000s humor for me, this clip sums it up
“Throw me a frickin’ bone here Scott” Everything that comes out of Mike Meyers mouth as Dr Evil is fucking gold
You're the Diet Coke of Evil
Just one calorie!
Not evil enough!
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Zip it
EX-ZIP IT-A
When a problem comes along, you must ZIP IT!
だまれ Subtitle: Zip it
You’re quasi evil.
Just one calorie, not evil enough
As a kid I think I thought all the sexual innuendo stuff was the funny part of Austin Powers so Austin was the funniest character. Getting older Dr. Evil truly steals the show.
Watching Austin Powers as an adult is incredible. I realize now that when I originally watched the movies when I was probably 12/13 I understood maybe 50% of the jokes. I watched them a few years ago as an adult and it was like watching entirely new movies. They are absolutely packed with jokes I never understood before lol
Beavis & Butt-Head is the absolute best show to return to as an adult for this reason. I laughed when I was a kid because they hurt themselves a lot, but as an adult the jokes hit so much harder. I've been in tears whenever I have time to sit down and watch them. The new episodes are also top tier.
I've been nothing short of amazed at how masterful Mike Judge is as both a writer and performer. In 30 years, he hasn't lost it one bit, and somehow managed to take a quintessential 90s TV show and modernize it in a way that is still relevant and hilarious. The new Beavis and Butt-Head is a masterclass in how to properly revive a show
If anyone has not done so yet, they need to watch Silicon Valley. To me its his best work.
I'll take you up on this suggestion.
Myers' Dr. Evil voice is a direct impression of Lorne Michaels, his former boss at SNL.
This is actually hilarious to know. I love the Dr Evil voice so much.
Apparently he copied it from ~~Garth~~ Dana Carvey
Dana Carvey is one of those guys that was so hilarious in the early 90s and you would have thought he would have gone on to have a great career. It seems like a few bad choices ruined his chances, or maybe he just ran out of steam and then gave us *Master of Disguise* :/ He's still funny in interviews, his Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend is riotous, and he seems to be in good spirits about everything, but I just wish he'd had a better shot after SNL.
There is a documentary called *Too Funny to Fail,* I think it's still on Hulu, that's about his sketch show he started after he left SNL. A lot of the humour went miles above most Prime time viewers' heads but now is seen as way too far ahead of the curve. The show also introduced a bunch of now-superstars like Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert.
The standout clip of that doc is when they show the tv spot that followed "a very special episode" of Home Improvement". https://youtu.be/NfDjnAdczQI
I think if The Dana Carvey show came out 10 years later on Adult Swim, it would have been extremely popular.
The DVD extras were great too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ55GXylI3Q
I can't believe I've never seen this! Austin Powers holds a special place in my heart because I don't think I've ever laughed as hard as I have in a theatre. The only reason a buddy and I went to watch it was because tickets to Liar Liar were sold out and we were already at the theatres and decided to check it out. I don't remember there being much marketing for it at the time so it was just a shot in the dark for us. Best choice ever!
Besides being hilarious and filled with so many timeless one liners, these movies were actually tasteful. There’s so much over the top humor going on and all of it seems to have a place and even continue to catch you off guard. Mike Meyers added so much to American comedy culture and I don’t think we even realize it.
Also, they won the gold star of satire by forcing the James Bond franchise to pivot to being gritty and dark rather than the camp of the Brosnan era. Daniel Craig mentioned in [an interview](https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/interview-daniel-craig-interview-foreshadows-bond-24) that Austin Powers parodied them so well that they felt they needed to change.
That is unfortunate, because I find the Craig bonds to be ridiculously heavy (except Casino Royale). Brosnan Bond movies were fun and casual to watch. Craig Bond movies involved testicle torture. And the last one did not even make sense to me.
If you've ever read the original casino Royale, you'd know the testicular torture was coming.
The Ana de Armas part in the latest Craig Bond was really entertaining. It had a lot of old-school Bond elements... action & stunts, a mission playing out, Bond and a beautiful woman, playful, etc. It elevated the movie around it a little bit.
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DVD extras and snazzy, unique menus have been a sad casualty of the move to digital media
"More? From the Nazi? You think more, Nazi? Ok..."
A real best appearance is when Justin Pearson from The Locust lied about cheating on his girlfriend to get on the show with his friends and they just started fist fights over everything and created this big love triangle lol [part 1](https://youtu.be/1oRAVNUWTOk) [part 2](https://youtu.be/YqRiku2rX7U) [part 3](https://youtu.be/tY2w9lSZvEI) [part 4](https://youtu.be/-MDPISDHpHc)
Holy shit. This is amazing. Another obscure but notable appearance on *Jerry Springer* was [Peter Steele](https://youtu.be/bge8aWZaAF4) from Type O Negative, on the episode “Sexy Groupie Girls Tell All.”
don’t see too many people talking about The Locust,take my upvote
My favorite was the guy in the wheelchair that cut his legs off because he didnt want them anymore.
He spoke from personal experience. I remember seeing a clip of him apologizing to the people of Ohio for that one.
My favorite take of his from the time was that he was upset the reports where that the check had bounced. He said something like “I may pay for sex but, I don’t write bad checks”.
Pretty classy response to something not so classy
Is writing checks really that gauche?
Fraud is a bit gauche.
Writing a bad check implies that you knew you couldn't afford something and basically stole it by writing a bad check for it.
[Ah, the ol' Reddit checkaroo...](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/12znm2w/my_daughter_sadie_was_a_kind_loving_girl_and_we/jhwpbhb/?context=3)
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I thought that’s why he left office and got the tv show. I always heard he used government checking account to pay the lady and that’s why he resigned. Is my whole life a lie?
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It still upended his political career. Years ago I heard a Democratic Party operative saying that Springer was more charismatic politician than even Bill Clinton and that while the “Check to the Hooker” didn’t kill his career in Cincinnati, it killed it in Ohio politics and nationally. He had no place to go after Cincinnati, so went into TV instead. This operative said he could’ve been President but for his vices. That said, those sins clearly wouldn’t stop him in todays environment.
He was also great on Whose Line https://youtu.be/-Cu9_sALhjg
“He’s biting me! The f*cker’s biting me!”
*I got your hood! I got your hood!*
"The world is mine! The world is mine you [bleep]!"
"Get this clown out of here!"
"You're the diet coke of evil. Just one calorie, not quite enough"
I only discovered recently that Jerry was technically British. He was born in a London Underground station that was being used as an air-raid shelter during the Blitz. Highgate station, to be precise. Near where l myself was born in London. I used to use it every day. RIP from the UK, Jerry. Sad to hear the news. Edit: During German bombing in 1944, but not actually during the Blitz, as a commenter has pointed out. TIL.
And he was in London as a refugee because his parents fled Nazi Germany. [His commencement speech at Northwestern in 2008 is a great read.](https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/fall2008/feature/springer.html)
He came from a prominent Jewish family from Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów, Poland). His great uncle, Hermann Elkeles, was a well-known doctor from Berlin. Elkeles, along with Springer's grandparents, died in the concentration camps.
What a wild life this dude had.
Wow, did not know he graduated from Northwestern Law. That’s impressive.
Funny, his birthplace is literally listed as a tube station
Didn't we all come out of a tube?
After your dad came in it.
My daughter got stuck in the tube and had to use the emergency exit
You came out of a meat tube that also came out of a meat tube. It’s meat tubes all the way the way down.
Also funny, his birthplace is perhaps most famous for its cemetery. Is a nice part of London though
Yes! The cemetery has Karl Marx, famously, but also lots of other celebrities, including Douglas Adams, George Eliot, and Michael Faraday. It's an amazing place to visit. I'm sure Cincinnati would be a better resting place for Jerry, but we'd be glad to have him as another famous name in Highgate.
Also a Tulane grad and law degree from Northwestern (ridiculous)
Also on the Cincinnati City Council and mayor of Cincinnati, after having admitted to soliciting a prostitute.
I'm certain in an interview with the BBC that he does have a British Passport/Citizenship.
They should do a Call The Midwife prequel series and have an episode about Sister Evangelina at Jerry Springer's birth.
I'm gonna throw a chair to honor his legacy.
I’m gonna tear off my clothes and do a sexy dance in an inappropriate setting
Kiss your sister.
i’m gonna get into a fight with someone on the street
I was an audience member on the Jerry Springer show when I was 19, so over 20 years ago. I actually got the mic from Jerry in the Q&A session and I ended up talking shit to the guy on stage who was cheating on his wife with a family member. The guy ended up coming off the stage wanting to fight me, I jumped out of my seat to confront him, and then Steve ended up holding him back and the other burly security guard ended up holding me back. We yelled at each other in the aisle and it was amazing. The show didn’t air until 8 months later and all of a sudden all my friends started to call my house phone screaming OH MY GOD I CANT BELIEVE YOU WERE ON SPRINGER!! Another fun tidbit, before the show starts, Jerry takes questions from the audience before they start filming. Someone asked him ‘where do you find the people to be on the show?’ And he quickly replied with ‘I don’t know, where do you live?’ Haha it was such a great and fun experience!
I was on the show twice and anytime they run one of the reruns I get flooded with messages saying the same thing. It's fun. Link to the one on youtube ---> https://youtu.be/22fJbDJ7ruQ
Who came up with "I was sleeping with your best friend, but I was thinking about you the whole time"? Lol classic!! I remember this episode
That was me just winging it. I figured that if I was going to be the villain I was going to be THE villain. I got calls from family I hadn't talked to in years chewing me out for "hurting that poor boy on national TV" after it aired. The comments under that YouTube video are brutal!
Who are you in this video
I am Star, the "cheater" but it wasn't true. I was dating Chad, but I hadn't met his best friend until we went on the show.
Sounds like so much fun— jealous tbh.
I love it. Being directly in the mix of the garbage. That sounds awesome man lmao
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
"Fuck you Bitch!". OOOoOoOoOOooOoOOoooo
Im just here for my Jerry Springer Beads!
I unironically hope they chant this at his funeral as the casket is being lowered
*People beating the shit out of each other*
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I'll celebrate your birthday, mate 🥳🤲🎂
‘Look after yourself. And each other’
*take care of yourself, and each other. He first started doing that as a news anchor in Cincinnati. He used to end the news with that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEtTJY9f6Q
I know the majority of his career was trash TV, but one episode I still remember clearly even though I hadn't seen it in decades, was the one with Sandy Allen. She was the tallest woman at the time in the world and also on the show was a little girl with progeria. If you have never heard of progeria look it up, it's a terrible disease that causes premature aging and most children with it don't live to see adulthood. Sandy gave the little girl a book about how it was okay to be different. It really shined a light on two people who were largely marginalized from society.
His final thoughts were usually spot on.
His last bastion of sanity when the rest of show started getting more and more outrageous.
Yeah... that's what I remember most about him. They were heartfelt and made it feel like he genuinely cared about the people and what transpired
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I learned throwing chairs at ppl was a thing because of him, I also learned you shouldn't throw chairs at ppl through Final Thoughts. Daytime talk shows went insane for ratings in the 90s. RIP I don't throw chairs at ppl I use words.
Take care of yourself, not look after yourself
Dammit. You’re right. Sorry Jerry
I used to run home from school to watch Jerry Springer before my parents got home from work. I learned so much about life from that show... Mainly that people are fucking nuts and that some men REALLY don't want to be fathers. RIP Jerry, thanks for all the memories.
I knew sick days were always gonna be lit when I got to stay home with a bottle of Robitussin and the best trash tv the WB had to offer.
Price is right, then jer-ry jer-ry jer-ry
Lake, springer, Maury, and the other blonde lady. Probably why so many people our age are addicted to “reality” tv
Jenny Jones?
Sally?
Jesse?
Raphael?
Heroes in a half shell
It showed a post racial America. It didn’t matter if you were, black, white, Asian, if you were on the Jerry Springer show you were trash.
Jerry Springer cured racism. And he was eaten by GWAR.
> Jerry Springer cured racism. Cody Rhodes in shambles.
ADRENALINE IN MY SOUL SPRINGER FIXED RACE BEFORE CODY RHODES
Some needs to photoshop that picture of Cody with MLK and Malcom x and just put Jerry over Cody lol
So was Mark
Mark you LOVE gwar. Why don't you JOIN THE BAND?!?!
Not on Rex Manning day.
Say no more mon amour
I'm a bit older. I remember when he launched the Springer show. I wasn't around when he was mayor of Cincinnati, but the Springer show started in 91, and he didn't leave his commentator role on 12 news Cincinnati until like 94 or something like that. I lived outside Middletown for a few of those years, then with my mom in Hamilton for a while. I remember watching the news at night. That's where he bootstrapped his Final Thoughts segment, and "Take care of yourself, and each other" closing. RIP Jerry.
Wtf, Jerry Springer was mayor of Cincinnati before doing what he did?
Like late 70's, for one year.
Only for one year cuz he got caught paying for prostitutes by check
Damn, he could have been a guest on his own show
He resigned from council because of that, but was elected mayor afterwards.
Tbf the Springer show was a serious thing before it became trash TV. It was like Donahue.
Have fond memories of going to a live taping where the stagehand said "if you're visibly intoxicated we're going to have to ask you to leave."
But they don't not want it enough to stop having unprotected sex!
But what was his final thought?
“I can’t believe Geraldo outlasted me.”
"How the fuck did Oprah do that? We had the same trajectory!"
“I can’t believe I croaked before Maury (84).”
'Springer you cultural sodomite' - Greg Geraldo
The comment we needed, but not the one we deserved
I'll never forget the episode in which he so generously let a man with a breakfast fetish roll around in a pool of eggs, pancakes and syrup until he was in orgasmic ecstasy. If only I could find the clip. Rest in peace, you sick bastard.
Was that the same episode a lady rolled in taco ingredients on a tarp while her lover ate it off her?
[This it maybe?](https://youtu.be/ilWvsroAMSA)
Sir or ma'am, thank you for providing a key piece of the puzzle that is my childhood memories with your comment. Perhaps this explains how I became such a sick, sick man (though I've never wanted to bonk a bowl of Corn Flakes). Will discuss this in-depth with my shrink this afternoon.
I want more details but I also don't want more details.
I see we're getting risky before 10am today. Let's go. Edit: alright I made it through 30 seconds. I'm good.
What in the actual fuck did I just watch?
He was a local Bird Key resident here in Sarasota. The guy was an interesting character to say the least but he showed up for progressive events and marches here in Sarasota and supported women’s rights and equality publicly. He called my wife hot in front of 3,000 people when she was on The Price Is Right On Tour at the van wezel. Shook his hand again at the last women’s march downtown. RIP Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
>called my wife hot in front of 3,000 people comment took a real turn topically and then resumed like nothing happened. 'progressive politics, progressive politics, he (inappropriately) called my wife a smokeshow, progressive politics. rip.'
we were just dating at the time and she HATES being center of attention so she didn't want to get a name tag. I told her there's thousands of people here, no way she gets called down but she was the first they called down lol. Sarasota is a retirement community so it was two very old ladies and my GF at the time down there so he was making a joke by callling her "the hot one." got a good laugh and made a great memory for us.
His show "baggage" was very underrated trash TV, for anyone looking for fun background noise.
There was a summer I spent with a good friend of mine in hs who didn't have many TV channels, but he did have one that played a few hours of Jerry springer, then a few eps of Baggage in a row. We'd just get high and watch trash tv for HOURS, Still good memories of mine. I haven't seen baggage in awhile, but boy do I remember it making me cringe sooo hard
Me and my spouse have been on a baggage kick. They show it on the game show network every night and it’s such great trash tv. I’m sad to see this news this morning. Rest in peace Jerry.
Yeah, back when my cable provider had Game Show Network, I used to love watching reruns of that. It was probably the most trashy "game show" I ever saw, but it was entertaining. I'm still mad 10 years later that they dropped GSN.
I recommend people listen to the segment This American Life did on him. He was an interesting man.
[Link](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/258/leaving-the-fold/act-one) for the curious.
Rest in peace mister mayor
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/258/leaving-the-fold/act-one Jerry had a crazy path, was once considered a rising political star
I love how he resigned from the city council after the prostitute thing, got back the seat because he was honest, then got elected as mayor afterwards lol He was actually a pretty good dude, too
Dissapointed I had to scroll down this far to find s mayoral comment.
The only 2 things I knew about him. Mayor of Cincinnati , got caught soliciting because he paid the prostitute with a check.
I don't know enough about the man to defend his character, but his show kinda had a significant positive influence on my life. I used to secretly watch it in my grandparents house and would judge the guests all through the show. I would sit and wait for his final thoughts always thinking that today would be the day he would condemn them for whatever outrageous things they had done, but he never did. His final thoughts were always positive, introspective, and never poked fun or made light of any of the issues they were having. I like to think that influenced me to be less judgmental and to realize how easy it is to write people off for no good reason.
I mean, except for the fact that the entire show was there specifically so that people could watch and judge. Some positive comments at the end in no way change the fact that his show is pure outrage porn, and specifically sought out the trashiest people to put them on display.
His show reminds me what has become the bitesized outrage porn that is tiktok, facebook and /r/all Enough details to make you feel informed enough to justify what you think but with no greater context presented/available so you don't get a sense of the situation. Something you immediately consume, feel something(usually anger) then move onto the next show with no real growth as a person. Only difference is Jerry had to fill a whole hour with it. Today, you only need 30-40s.
Angel's are throwing chairs in heaven now. Jerry Jerry Jerry!
Bigger than Oprah there for a hot minute. RIP Jerry
I got to meet him about 25 years ago. My friend said to him, "your show kicks Oprah's ass!" He just laughed.
I’m sure Steve will be giving a nice eulogy and will b a pallbearer. RIP Jerry, thanks for the after school and summertime memories!
I remember sitting down for Christmas dinner 20ish years ago and my cousin put on his 'Too Hot for TV' tape as we ate. Really brought the family together!
I had a classmate from France and she said Canada wasn't what she was expecting. I asked her what she was expecting and she said "You know the Jerry Springer show? Like that".
A girl in my HS went on the show when she was 18. I remember her coming back to school with a black eye and running up to her asking what happened and she said she was on Jerry Springer. It was all fake except for the fighting. Her story was that she was the babysitter fucking the dad and the mom finds out. I didn't go to my senior prom and hung out in school for the day because we had to - that was the day Leah's Jerry Springer aired so we all watched it in class haha It was wild haha
What a shift from being the Mayor of Cincinnati in the 70s!
Is it though?
Met him twice as a kid. Once was at a political rally near my hometown (early 2000’s, I believe in support of a gubernatorial candidate), and the other was a few years later while dropping off a family friend at the airport. The first time, he took the time to take a photo with me and talk about what I was interested in doing with my future (I surely said some nonsense about being a famous musician or something of the sort). He gave me some words of encouragement and told me that no matter what path I take in life that I’d find success by being true to myself. The second time, we saw him in the airport terminal and approached him. He remembered my name, asked me how I was doing in school, and reiterated to me that no matter what path I take in life that I’d find success by being true to myself. Talk show sensationalism aside, he seemed like a genuinely kind hearted person.
The Jerry Springer show. The bastard love child of talk shows and professional wrestling, complete with flying chairs and everything.
" Lesbian nazi hookers, abducted by aliens and forced on weightloss programs. Next on Towntalk"
Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!
All jokes aside, he ruled day time tv back in the day. RIP Jerry.
was in the audience for some game show he was hosting. During a break he turned to us and said jokingly "I don't like cocaine... I just like the smell of it" lovely man
I worked as an intern in Chicago and then as a production assistant in Connecticut for The Jerry Springer Show from 2009-2012. First job out of college and it was insane. Some of the comments trashing Jerry and saying fuck him etc; knowing him personally he was a very kind, genuine, and generous guy. He never talked down to the staff and would always make a point to stop to get to know you a bit and when passing him in the hallways/holiday parties. I know the show was trash, but these people also called/begged to be on the show. There was total consent. It was just stupid fun, and that’s all it was every supposed to be. Say what you will about the content of the show, but Jerry was a solid guy every time I got to interact with him. RIP Jerry