Do you consider yourself a television junkie? Television talk show hosts today pick a wide range of topics they think viewers will be interested in and want to watch everyday and eventually become hooked. Each talk show host has their own beliefs and offers advice to guests to try to better their situation. Some hosts reunite families, offer counseling, or give miraculous makeovers while others promote profound nudity, explicit language, and uncontrolled violence. However, I find these shows intriguing and interesting because each host has their own style.
There is no college degree that will make you be able to be a talk show host, but I do think you must be able to gossip and be ready to think outside the box. Topics of talk shows usually are appealing and meant to grab the viewer's attention. Ricki Lake, for example, uses topics that viewer's young and old would appreciate. This host is a short, chubby, stylishly dressed young woman who does nothing but council, listen, and asks questions. My friends think of her as an inspiration, but to me she is a role model. She dresses in classy outfits with all the accessories as if she is a model for Glamour Magazine, and with a cute hairstyle and enormous amount of make-up to cover up any blemishes. Every woman can relate to her she has topics ranging from children in gangs, teen pregnancy, cheating partners, and abusive relationships to fabulous makeovers, gift ideas, and wedding proposals. Her studio is full of hurried movement before the show begins with staff making the final touches, the rustling of guests getting ready to appear on national television, and viewers chatting among each other. .
Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has some viewers in an uproar. The Jerry Springer show, with its attitude, language, violence, and negativity, does not do anything to keep the show civil. His idea of a talk show has to be bizarre and out of control.
