I have to assume that she’s actually trying to be funny here. My advice to people is: if you’re not funny, do not try to be funny. This may be the most dreadful thing I’ve ever seen.
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Wow, that was bad. And I can tell I haven’t watched network TV in a long time. The last time I did she was hot! When did she turn 90?!
Dammit John, you have to admit that took guts. Maybe some of these news celebrity takes themselves too seriously anyway. They spend far more time worrying about the right shade of MAC concealer than their copy.
Wow is right !!! That was horrid. I was afraid there was going to be a nip-slip when she laid on the piano.
I wonder why she felt she had to embarrass herself so and if it turned Maury on.
And to think she used to be a reasonably respected journalist. Now, if the Gong Show were still on, she couldn’t even qualify for it.
Ain’t so bad, I seen worse.
I made it 15 seconds before stopping it. That was painful to watch.
omg, wtf was that?! I couldn’t even finish it. that was horrendous.
It’s not that I didn’t warn you!
You’re right John, this is very bad… there’s nothing really to say about this but to laugh and feel sorry for the woman.
i think the grunt she uttered while getting off the piano was the single most brilliant thing i have seen in a looooong time.
That made my dog start to howl along. (He’s a million percent better, by the way) She is completely tone deaf! The only thing she could have done worse would include Ping Pong balls, and I thought she was going for it for a second.
On another note, was it Quaaludes the guy in the blue suit was on? Imagine having to sit through the ones of rehearsals he had to go to…that guy deserves a medal!
And to think of it she was the host of the CBS news.
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Ok, after this no matter what comes on TV we have no reason to complain. I wonder who’s utterly boneheaded idea this was. Well, I guess it is a fitting finale for one of the worst news commentary shows EVER on TV.
The only thing that I think of that would be worse… maybe… John Dvorak dressed in drag singing on the finale of Cranky Geeks… on second thought for many of us that might worthy of pay-per-view!
I tried to think of what could be worse when several visions came to mind.
Rush Limbaugh in a bathing suit.
Bill O’Reilly admitting he made a mistake.
George Bush winning in 2004.
That was horrid. Why couldn’t she have gone out with some classy retrospective on highlights of her career? Funny? No.
Gotta give her some credit – pretty good body for a 60 year old woman! I was glad she didn’t take a header off the piano.
That was just wrong.
The Soup has shown a few outtakes of her supposed comedic talent. Every one is just or as nearly dreadful.
What was it that Mark Twain said, “man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to”
Goes in spades to this idiot.
Eat you heart out, Bai Ling!
Sung to the tune of – it’s obvious
She tanked on the melody
It’s good Bob Hope is dead
He’d go after her head
His theme song’s sung like it’s been done by the famous Mister Ed
How badly it sucked
It left me in agony
the comedy’s no good
directed by Ed Wood?
after doing this she shouldn’t go outside without a hood
Embarassment lives
her whine about the pay was just annoying
the talk about Maury was too cloying
I can’t imagine anyone enjoying
this stupid song, until it’s gone
It must be an elegy
a song sung for the dead
be careful where you tread
the composers and musicians should be screaming for her head
That’s all I can stand
J/P=?
Ah, did anyone else but me notice that there was a piano player and that he appears to be playing… but there is no extremely needed music? Or was that part of the hilarity?
Is it something? No, I don’t think so. It could have been cool if she’d been able to sing for real. Connie should now do backup on Rosanne Barr’s Star Spangled Banner.
RBG
I loved it- GO Connie! Too Many are Too Serious-
Does anyone actually believe this was serious? Really?
She deserves an Oscar (well…maybe not)
Cut her some slack (and between her & Maury they probably have more dough$$$ than all of us put together)
RBG, I noticed there was no music as well despite the guy pretending to play the piano. I just assumed that this was a pre-editing video. I assumed that they would add the music after-the-fact in the mixing studio.
Did this air like this in raw form? That would have been even more hilarious.
Connie Chung could be used as a case-study in poor career choices.
Does anyone remember her from those early days… especially as weekend new anchor. She had that perfect “anchor” combination of likability, pleasant looks and seeming sincerity. Some of you will mock me for saying that, but she had it — BACK THEN. She could have taken over for any of the current retiring news anchors today.
But, instead, through a series of bad choices… here she is on this video. I can’t help think that, somehow, her husband is behind this.
(Look at the face of the fake piano player. It’s the face of a guy who is horrified to be there but was ordered to do it.)
#19 John Paradox, good lines…
“I can’t imagine anyone enjoying
this stupid song, until it’s gone”
Those who turned it off early are definitely from the “instant gratification” crowd. Only we who listened to the bitter end are rewarded with deep and lasting gratification.
Excuse me while I take a nap on my bed of nails.
Next week An American Idol…..A duet with William Hung
I’m sure Maury Povitch would call it classy.
Say is that Newt Gingrich in the front row applauding her exit?
More on America’s semi-sweetheart at
http://www.salon.com/people/rewind/1999/07/10/chung/
Makes me want to revisit the 1st amemdment….
I’m thinking maybe she should do some porn with Mandingo.
What’s the matter with you all?? This was hysterical, and she knew exactly what she was doing. If there had been a laugh track, I think everyone may have “gotten it” sooner. She knows she can’t sing, she knows she can’t vamp, and had she done it on SNL or Letterman, it would have been deemed brilliant.
Lighten up.
I can’t wait for that song to be available at the karaoke bars.
Hopefully the last in a long line of bad career choices. Yes, I too, was expecting (and hoping for) the ping-pong balls.
News anchor or boat anchor? One last career choice, Connie.