April 27th, 2023 at 12:13 PM ^
RIP. Huge part of my childhood during those formative elementary school years.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:32 PM ^
Me too. Love Jerry. RIP!
April 27th, 2023 at 12:15 PM ^
RIP. I guess the Nineties are truly over
Not until Bill Clinton passes from the scene.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:16 PM ^
While at Michigan, I bought the Springer "Too Hot for TV" VHS tape - it was on regular rotation in my shit hole apartment. RIP Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!
April 27th, 2023 at 12:19 PM ^
I would see him quite a bit when I worked in downtown Cincinnati - chatted w/ him a few times. He struck me as a very smart, warm and genuine guy.
He had a heck of an interesting life. The story of him getting in trouble for paying a Covington, KY prostitute with a check (a check that bounced, no less!!!), and then rebounding from that to being elected Cincinnati mayor just 3 years later --- it's not all he will be remembered for, but it's a colorful part of his story.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:19 PM ^
Whoa…. This is sad to hear. Good or bad, that man was a trend setter for television. RIP
April 27th, 2023 at 12:24 PM ^
I was friends with a woman who helped care for his daughter, who is learning impaired. We happened to run into him at a restaurant, and he was one of the warmest, most friendly people I've ever met. His intelligence was clear even from his shows. My friend said it was very real--he was incredibly kind and patient with his daughter and everyone around him.
I'm not crazy about where TV and media in general have gone of late, and you could point to his show as being part of it becoming more crass. On the other hand, he pointed a spotlight on our society and parts of it that we didn't previously acknowledge. Mixed feelings abound, but I will send a metta meditation and any extra merit his direction.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:28 PM ^
On the other hand, he pointed a spotlight on our society and parts of it that we didn't previously acknowledge.
Hey, you're talking about my kin...
April 27th, 2023 at 12:33 PM ^
The show I went to was around 1995 and it had a bunch of drag queens/cross dressers as guests, so he was certainly ahead of his time.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:25 PM ^
Got to meet him a few years back. Could not have been nicer. RIP
April 27th, 2023 at 12:26 PM ^
Wow, was he sick? If he was, I had no idea...
It doesn't seem like anyone in the general public knew, or at least, I don't remember it being covered at all. On the radio, they said he found out he had pancreatic cancer only a few months ago, and it sounds like he kept it more or less to himself and, I would imagine, his closer orbit.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:27 PM ^
Funny, I was just describing the other side of a lawsuit I’m litigating as looking like “the Jerry Springer show “. All felons.
RIP
April 27th, 2023 at 12:48 PM ^
He put a spotlight on the degradation of American society, glorified it, & got rich doing it. His show looked like it belonged on Idiocracy.
And he was very self-aware, as well. He admitted freely that his show was absolutely stupid, and that he would never watch it himself if someone else were hosting it.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:34 PM ^
RIP. That must have been fun to go to one of his shows.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:39 PM ^
It was!
April 27th, 2023 at 12:43 PM ^
Springer was an objectively awful human. His life’s work was exploiting poor people and encouraging violence for personal profit. Good riddance.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:54 PM ^
It was basically just another version of fake wrestling for entertainment. All for show and mostly fake. I'm sure those people were paid and did it voluntarily. It may not have been entertaining for some but it was definitely engrained in popular culture and referenced a lot.
How you been, varmint?
It was scripted entertainment. Maybe save some of your venom for those genuinely awful people in public life who do the same?
In spite of his show’s reputation as “trash TV,” which sparked competitors including Maury Povich and Steve Wilkos, Springer often expressed empathy and compassion for the people who filled his set with the kind of drama that lead to ratings gold.
"Know this," he said during a 2015 episode. "There's never been a moment in the 25 years of doing this show that I ever thought I was better than the people who appear on our stage. I'm not better. Only luckier."
Springer didn’t ambush people by setting them up for real world problems, he gave them a check for acting. My best friend does voice acting for these fake morning radio dramas, ie war of the roses. Not everything aired is real. OP should save that hate for Jenny Jones. For all that were too young to remember: https://allthatsinteresting.com/jonathan-schmitz
Didn’t realize Schmitz was released in 2017, 22 yrs after killing a man with a shotgun.
While I didnt hate the guy he definitely made a living airing trash for a long time.
Yeah, but it was our "trash". It was wholesome "trash" compared to the abject trash on social media today. There is literal porn on Twitter. I'm not being prude and just talking about the ass pics and almost naked woman on Instagram. I mean some lady getting jackhammered by the pizza guy type of porn. Back in my day the worst you could do was Jerry Springer, a JC Penning Catalog and that one night when Cinemax had a free trial. Jerry Springer's show was Dora the Explorer compared to what we have now.
amazing people can throw this shit out there without even knowing the guy
d-baggery at its finest
April 27th, 2023 at 11:52 PM ^
A good friend of mine was his editor for 22 years. He started with him in Chicago and then moved to Connecticut when the show moved there. His accounting of him is a very nice, smart, personable guy who treated everyone who worked on the show like family. I'm going to take him at his word.
April 27th, 2023 at 12:47 PM ^
Jerry once gave up his seat in a crowded airport terminal so my grandma could sit down. RIP.
Never could figure out why anybody would waste even 30 seconds watching that stuff.
The same reason people slow down to get a good look at car accidents.
Also, the Talk Town portion of UHF totally reminded me of Springer's shows
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!!!!!!
RIP to my favorite former Cinci mayor who was busted for paying for a hooker with a check.
Won't speak ill of the man, but his show was absolute shit. RIP.
Claymation Jerry Springer: "What about my final thought?"
Opponent: "YOU JUST HAD YOUR FINAL THOUGHT!"
/disemboweling ensues
I wasn't a huge Celebrity Deathmatch fan but that one always stuck with me.
RIP Jerry.
I once sat next to him on a flight to sarasota, and he was shockingly tall.
Used to watch his videos at my tailgates.
He saved a lot of dudes from unnecessarily paying child support.
He also proved that a lot of dudes should be paying child support.
by all accounts a very nice and generous man in person. RIP
Wasn't that Maury Povich?
Where do you think Maury learned that from?
RIP.
Freshman year of college my roommates and I would watch his show every morning at 9 am. Best way to bond with roommates let me tell ya.
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He was a deeply cynical man who amplified the worst voices in our culture and pushed society that much closer to idiocracy. And he made a ton of money doing it. I’m not mourning his death.
Thank you. He profitted from heartache and distaste.
Ferris?