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Its Time For Don Imus To Retire

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The Voice of Reason

His show which airs on, of all things, The Fox Business Network, is not entertaining. The jokes and routines are stale; many of the guests, especially his wife and that blonde lawyer, are just boring.

Imus had a more entertaining program when he was on MSNBC. The retirement of long-time news reader and sidekick Charles McCord resulted in a void that hasn't been filled. Over the years I read where it was McCord who played a major role in writing some of the funny routines Imus used.

Imus' program went from an off-the-wall type of comedy to where today all he does is belly-ache about his health, talk about how much money he has, and look totally bored on TV.
 
The Voice of Reason said:
His show which airs on, of all things, The Fox Business Network, is not entertaining. The jokes and routines are stale; many of the guests, especially his wife and that blonde lawyer, are just boring.

Imus had a more entertaining program when he was on MSNBC. The retirement of long-time news reader and sidekick Charles McCord resulted in a void that hasn't been filled. Over the years I read where it was McCord who played a major role in writing some of the funny routines Imus used.

Imus' program went from an off-the-wall type of comedy to where today all he does is belly-ache about his health, talk about how much money he has, and look totally bored on TV.
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In my opinion, your post would have been just as timely 15 years ago.
 
The Voice of Reason said:
Imus had a more entertaining program when he was on MSNBC. The retirement of long-time news reader and sidekick Charles McCord resulted in a void that hasn't been filled. Over the years I read where it was McCord who played a major role in writing some of the funny routines Imus used.
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...Imus lucked out by ripping off Larry Lujack's world-weary schtick (at the time the hottest thing in Top 40 radio, at WLS Chicago) and getting a job at WNBC New York, where nobody'd heard of Lujack. He then tried to glom off of Howard Stern's act on the same WNBC a dozen years later, and managed to revive his stagnant career. I'll have to check my old LPs, but I'm pretty sure McCord is credited as co-writer on the two RCA Victor albums Imus put out in '72 and '73...
 
mrschimpf said:
Isn't there anything else FBN could run besides him that could get ratings?
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Well it sure isn't Dagon McDowell. She hosted the morning show on Fox Business when Imus was on vacation for one week and she can't interview people worth a damn. That and she has trouble completing a sentence without tripping over her tongue.
 
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