How Hilarious and Awkward was the Larry King Live Finale?: A Movieline IM Discussion

Louis: The best part of the Larry King finale was the tweets. I was obsessed with the tweets they kept showing at the bottom of the screen. The night's big winner? Jenny McCarthy: "I'm going to miss your sexy ass!"

Julie: Second place goes to Snoop Dogg: "Make sure you check the boss."

And third goes to Jimmy Fallon: "Congrats."

Louis: [I'm] DYING.

Julie: I thought whoever was in charge of wrangling Larry King tribute tweets failed though. After five minutes, it was all anonymous Tweeters like Janice B. and Joanna M. I wanted Oprah, El Kutch and P. Diddy

Louis: Yeah, where were Shaq and Paula Poundstone?

Julie: Lady Gaga and DJ Pauly D?

Louis: Fidel Castro and Elayne Boosler?

Julie: Ugh.

Louis: But wait. The absolute best moment. Was Katie Couric's poem.

Julie: I had to mute the television after the first couplet. I couldn't deal.

Louis: And now, a short statement about poems: There is always the woman in the office who writes rhyming poems to people who leave the company. Always. Katie Couric was that woman last night.

Julie: To use Larry King's favorite question, why? (...did she do that?)

Louis: Well, first of all, she needed an efficient way to say things like, "From Heather Mills' leg to Ross Perot's twang, you did not insult, or harass, or harangue." That was real. That was very real. And Larry responded the best way he know how: pretending to pay attention. Also, Katie: You cannot do this with Bill Maher in the vicinity. They cut right to him for the stankface, and he delivered.

Julie: Did he comment on the poem? My TV was muted for 10 minutes after the poem just to be safe.

Louis: No one commented on the poem. No one said, "Katie, you have a real command of the English language." Or, "Katie, your use of dactylic pentameter was trenchant and eerily moving."

Julie: That was horrific. Poetry readings make me uncomfortable. Louis, don't ever read poetry to me. Oh! I know what we need to talk about. Remember when surprise guest Bill Clinton appeared via satellite and Larry King awkwardly interrupted his intro to say "We're both in the zipper club."

Louis: YES.

Julie: And everyone was so freaked out that a few moments later, producers made Larry explain that by "zipper club," Larry did not mean some kind of underground fetish community but that they both had had heart operations.

Louis: I had hoped that we'd see Barbara Walters bite her lip in ecstasy at the first mention of "zipper club," or Seacrest clutching his chest and shrieking. But instead we got baffled Bill Clinton, whose zipper club antics got him impeached. So, honestly, maybe CNN did that part right!

Julie: Good for them?

Louis: Yeah. I did not anticipate finding a positive here. Should we end this right now? On this note?

Julie: Yes.

Louis: I'm fine with that.

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