{"id":129734,"date":"2025-08-08T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129734\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:38:09","slug":"the-late-night-shows-that-failed-to-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129734\/","title":{"rendered":"The Late Night Shows That Failed to Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>YEAR: <\/strong>1998 <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>EPISODES:<\/strong> 12<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBasketball great Magic Johnson was not, it turns out, such a great talk show host. THR was kinder than other critics, saying Johnson\u2019s \u201cgentle and kind persona, so perfect for an interviewee, was too weak for an interviewer.\u201d Johnson\u2019s sidekick, meanwhile, comedian Craig Shoemaker, had such terrible chemistry with the host that he was fired on the third episode \u2014 during a commercial break. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YEAR: 1998 EPISODES: 12 Basketball great Magic Johnson was not, it turns out, such a great talk show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[79084,171,79085,15467,76178,79086,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-129734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-chevy-chase","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-joan-rivers","11":"tag-late-night","12":"tag-magic-johnson","13":"tag-pat-sajak","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114994604297956477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}