That her show started as a spectacle?
People would stand around the water cooler and talk about "that fat sassy black woman - who tells it like it is".
This was in the days of Mike Douglas, Dick Cavett and Phil Donohue (who was considered "edgy" at the time).
Does anyone else remember the early days of her show?
2006-11-27 07:24:41 · 15 answers · asked by Salami and Orange Juice 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
Oh, I thought it still was a joke.
2006-11-27 07:26:41 · answer #1 · answered by Local Celebrity 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Phil Donohue said, before Oprah arrived, that if his show ever was in trouble due to a competitor it would be due to a black woman arriving on the scene. He understood there was an untapped potential in the talkshow market that a woman could take advantage of. Most other people didn't take Oprah seriously, but Phil understood the potential.
2006-11-27 15:35:08 · answer #2 · answered by KatGuy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I remember before her show...back to her days at WJZ TV (Channel 13) in Baltimore, Maryland. She used to host a talk show with Richard Sher called "People are Talking". She was the first black co-host for a "national" call-in talk show. She had a big afro too, as did her caucasian co-host. Though the show was meant to be a serious talk show, she never got serious recognition, until she appeared on the 6 o'clock news with Jerry Turner and Al Sanders a few years later. After leaving Baltimore, she moved to Chicago, where she eventually started up her talk show, but she started very small at first.
2006-11-27 15:32:14 · answer #3 · answered by wespectmyauthoritah 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you have to start somewhere and everybody changes so stop hatin you cant dog oprah that fat sassy black woman as you like to call her is a rich *** fat sassy black woman...plus how many opportunities where their for black women at that time to have a show unless they were sassy and had ricky lake material
2006-11-27 15:29:08 · answer #4 · answered by the one 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
she was considered a joke b/c she was a lone black woman in a white tv world. joke or not she is still around decades later so she is doing something right.
2006-11-27 15:29:25 · answer #5 · answered by cami 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I do remember, but the jokes on them now huh?
2006-11-27 15:26:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
That fat lady turned out to be $$$$$.
2006-11-27 15:28:38 · answer #7 · answered by Ms. Jacksonville, FL 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
oprah is the best black woman alive
2006-11-27 15:26:14 · answer #8 · answered by Micah G 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes!
2006-11-27 15:26:55 · answer #9 · answered by Funky Monk 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
She still is a joke.
2006-11-27 15:26:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋