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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I liked it. She got me turned on a little.
I truly believe she was making fun of the tv industry, and what she thinks of her tv viewers. Obviously this wasn’t meant to be funny but an expression of deep seated anger and frustration. Cut her some slack: she’s been through a lot with her husband in the news and now a failed show. So what she makes a lot of money. Having money says nothing about “who we really are ” as people. She’s still a person with a heart and soul and obviously she knew she this act would not help her career. It sounds to me like her way of saying f…..k… off.
I thought that was hilarious. I always liked Connie and now I like her even more. I guess all the critics out there couldn’t find any depth or underlying literary purpose for the performance and totally missed the fact that she did it to have some fun at her expense. Anyway i loved it. Critics, Get a life!!!
It sounded like a pack of wild dogs falling off a cliff. It wasn’t funny, it was SAD. Would have been good at a burial. All part of the anti-Bush, anti-Republican crowd.
Well, if anyone could have saved this performance, it would have been John Paradox. But unfortunately Chung did not have his counsel.
Wow! That could not have been a bigger disaster. And I’ve always been a fan of Connie’s.
I’m going to jump on the “blame Maury” bandwagon. Yep. It’s got to be him.
I so wish Connie had married David Letterman instead. He’s always seemed to be sweet on her. And it would have saved Connie from the coarsening influence of Tabloid TV Maury.
I never was a fan of Connie Chung. But this piece was extremely painful to watch. It is sad to see somebody who could have pretended to be a serious journalist leave a career in such a dreadful way and throw it all. Doesn’t she have friends, family , a husband who could have stopped her and tell her how pathetic she was.? She will never resurface after this.
Born August 20, 1946. Show me another 60 year old (yeah, SIXTY) who looks as good in that dress. Maury was her downfall, from the start. Good women, bad choices! It was delicious to watch exactly because it was so painful to watch. I’m waiting for Screeetch to launch a video begging campain to save his house.
Those commentors who claim that, with this “performance,” CC can’t ever again be a “serious journalist,” have obviously never seen reporters and anchors off-air. Most are a gaggle of clueless, arrogant jerks. And isn’t “serious journalist” an oxymoron, anyway? It’s been years since America has had “serious journalism.”
i get it..!!!!!!!….. says pierres wife
First thing that came to mind was a menopausal cathouse madam overdosing on heroin. Can’t wait for the duet with William Shatner.
WOW… Thank god Dan Rather didn’t see this before his last broadcast… He may have wanted to upstage her.
(Maybee a harpsicord and a monkey with a tutu, I mean c’mon Dans a funny guy right ?).
After THAT, there can only be one question:
“What’s the frequency, Connie?”
But she does look good for sixty, I’ll give her that….!
Why have a piano player when he doesn’t play a note?
The Beginning of her downfall was the insultng comments she made to Oklahomans after the bombing of the Federal Building, THIS, most assuredly was the end. (And not a moment too soon)
That was absolutely Dreadful. I’m sorry, you are not going to Vegas.
WTF! The kid from “Life goes on” can sing better than her. I was waiting for the ghost of Jack Ruby to come in and end it. Her career is over. Stick a fork in her she is done folks. The next time you will see her she will be telling you that your shirts will be ready for pick-up on Thursday. I bet Maury wanted to run in as she was
“singing” and hand her divorce papers. I feel bad for their kid. Can you image having them as parents? I would rather have had the Rosenbergs. If she is ever on TV agian, she will play the part of Dr. Phil’s wife on Maury’s show. I hope the rest of the liberal media hosts go out the same way.
I would rather play naked twister with the “Golden Girls” than to hear that again! She has a voice that can make dogs stop humping. As you watch that horror show, if you look in the background, you can see Muary trying to hang himself. Doesn’t She have people that work for her that could have told her before hand that would kill her career? No wonder Dan Rather does not like her. He heard he sing off camera. Look for her on TV on a show called “Where are they now?” I can’t wait to watch Bill O’Reilly tonight o hear what his take on this is. Good night sweet Connie, we hardly knew ye. Now don’t the the door hit you in your Rosie O’Donnell looking butt on the way out.
I think sand (#32) nailed it.
What!?! No mention about Muary’s $100 Million Sexual Harassment suit in the song!?! Thanks for those memories! What a way to go out. I was hoping either that her dress would have caught fire from one of those candles and we could have had us a Richard Pryor moment or she that she would have fallen off the piano and broken a hip. Lets hope Larry “Grand Larceny” King doesn’t try to top that one. Goodbye Grandma Connie, Its time to go to the home now.
WHY? MOMMY WHY?
Little Matthew.
Of course she was poking fun at herself and the industry. The problem is…IT WASN’T FUNNY!!! It would have been just as uncomfortable on Letterman or Leno. It should be a new Fox show, WHEN UNFUNNY PEOPLE TRY TO BE FUNNY. It would be great to see Bruce Willis or Stallone making all sorts of jokes that the paps laugh at. What a painful hour that would be.
At least Bruce Willis can sing (Some what). When will Connie join “The View”?They need another liberal bitter old woman on that show. Maybe her and Barbara Walters can tell stories of how they really feel about Dan Rather. I hope that Kathleen Gingrich is smiling and thing “The B!$@h got what she deserved”.
She’s 60?!! Dang!
(oh yeah, the music and singing were dreadful, but hilarious. I think my favorite part was when she slid off the piano. The positive points she gets for even trying this singing-on-the-piano stunt balance out the negatives for being a marginal singer.)
Positive points!?! Positive points!?! There where no positive points!?! Here is my positive point: It ended! What are some of you people on anyway? Stop being such kiss-up and admit the truth: 1) It sucked. 2) She made an ass out of herself. Please stop with the whole “She was making fun of herself”. B.S. Whatever she was trying to do she ended up having her own “Howard Dean” moment. And look what happened to that dipstick.Come on people, put down your left colored glasses and admit the truth. Come on, you can do it! Start clicking your heels together and keep repeating: I will admit the truth! I will admit the truth!I will admit the truth!…..
I agree with #44. I completely lost respect for her when she came to OKC after the bombing and was RUDE,RUDE,RUDE. I lived in Oklahoma City then and actually felt the blast. It is a town filled with good people who needed compassion, not Connie. I don’t wish bad things to happen to anyone, but I feel that she went out in extactly the way she deserved- in shame.
Wow….Connie is a hottie. Her voice sucks but you must admit she looks hot for s senior citizen
Good God, I thought the best meltdown of a celebrity that has ever been broadcast on national t.v. was when that tool Tom Cruise gooned out on Oprah’s couch, but I was wrong. Incredibly, this monstrosity tops even that classic t.v. moment. Just how drunk was Connie Chung when she taped this? Of course, if I had to be married to that lech, Maury Povich, I would probably stay gassed 24/7. Since her career as a “serious journalist” has now been officially shit-canned, maybe she can start a new career as a “singer” (!!!???) and go on tour with that other great talent, Ashlee Simpson…
WTF?!!! I was watching this clip and my 6 year old son came in the room and said matter-of-factly “Wow mom, she’s really horrible!”. You can always count on a truthful opinion from a child!
Terrrriffic, I liked it
Has anyone confirmed that this actually aired as-is?
I have a theory: She was lip-synching along to a pre-recorded track but the feed we hear is the direct feed from her microphone, never intended to be aired.
Something like this happened with pop star Enrique Iglesias — he apparently lip synchs to a DAT for live performances, but he uses a real microphone, so one of the sound engineers actually recorded the feed once from his mike. There’s an MP3 of it going around the web somewhere.
In any case, I got the idea that perhaps this is the direct feed from her mike, which was going to be dumped in post-production, with music and vocals dubbed in. I also thought this may be the case because we can’t hear the piano player at all.
Not sure if this is what happened or not, but I’m curious to hear if anyone has info as to whether or not this is actually the version that aired.