On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 3:43 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember occasionally watching the Joey Bishop show as a kid, but don’t > really have distinct memories of Regis from back then. Those begin with his > AM Los Angeles show, I think when I was in jr and sr high school. After > that, my main exposure to him was as a regular guest with Dave. Dave had a > handful of regular male guests that I disliked intensely (Phil, Richard, > Trump of course) and were the only reasons I would ever turn Dave off. At > first I had Regis in that same category, but over time I came to appreciate > Regis for his wit and broadcasting skills, and he was clearly in a much > more competent and likable level than the other guys, even if there were > always some things I did not like about him. >
Regis had a rare talent of being high energy and not self conscious when he was on camera, no matter if he had something prepared or he had to talk spontaneously. Almost everybody gets self conscious when they see the red light on a TV camera and they might need a few seconds to get beyond it and start talking. Regis could just go without a second thought. That's what made him a good talk show host and especially a good fill-in talk show guest. If he didn't have anything to promote or any reason to be in the news it didn't matter. Just bring him on the show and let him go for a segment. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGnga0WP7%3DZ62N33uoHm83wJ4%2BW-RM7QO%3DFGSyyhDhzPQ%40mail.gmail.com.
