Larry King's guest tonight is Howard Stern, thereby proving that even two guys who loathe each other can get along for an hour if they think it'll help their ratings.
Tip for Howard Stern, who I know doesn't read this site: Next time Mr. King berates you for having naked women on your radio show and talking about sexual stuff, ask him about the time he had Marilyn Chambers on his radio program. She invited him to have sex with her during the news break and then to discuss it in the following segment. Not only did they attempt it but The Iron Horse of Broadcasting (L.K.) was, perhaps understandably, unable to perform in such an odd circumstance. For all of Stern's "littering the airwaves," as King has put it in the past, I don't think he's ever gone that far with a guest, at least during a broadcast.
As everyone in the world has heard eleven times by now, Howard Stern's radio show moves to Sirius radio next Monday. I won't be springing for a Sirius subscription because of it but I'll bet a lot of people have or will. Frankly, I sometimes like Stern when he's doing a one-on-one conversation with a guest. When he wants to be, and when the guest has something to say, Howard is a very good interviewer. But every time I've tuned him in the last few years, the premise has been to bring in some poor young lady who cluelessly thinks an appearance on The Howard Stern Show will help her career, and get her to disrobe and/or talk about her sex life while Stern's cohorts insult her I.Q. and (often) her appearance. Or sometimes, they bring in some geeky, slightly-retarded male and abuse him. Neither fits into any known definition of Entertainment for me but, hey, someone must like it. Stern has always done well and one of these days, some cable TV channel will put him on uncensored and they'll all make so much money, they'll have to digitize it and store it on CD-Rom.