Will Larry King retire?

September 29th, 2009

There’s some speculation going around that Larry King may retire when his contract is up in 18 months. Though he himself says he probably won’t.

"I’m signed through 2011 . . . then we’ll see," said King. "I should retire? Retire to what? If I didn’t work, I don’t know what I’d do. I’ll probably fall over right on the set one night."

 

I really hope he doesn’t. Larry King is awesome! He’s an American icon who’s show is like no one else’s. I remember when he was on Real Time with Bill Maher, Bill Maher brought up the fact of how Larry King doesn’t talk a lot. He simply asks questions and listens. Larry said something like it’s because people watch a show to see the guests. His shows time is for his guests to speak and that he can do his speaking when he’s a guest ( like he was on Bill Maher ).

I can’t imagine any of these people that are speculated in replacing him measuring up at ALL.

“Rumored contenders to take Larry’s chair include ‘American Idol’ host Ryan Seacrest, network anchors Diane Sawyer and Katie Couric, CNN correspondent John King and co-host of ‘The View’, Joy Behar.”

Any of those mentioned replacing someone like Larry King HAS to be a joke.

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