Feherty Show

I'll start by saying I'm a big fan of Feherty. I have been since he hosted Inside the PGA Tour for a show back in the 90s. He opened the show by entering from a port-o-pot. It was great. When he went to CBS I enjoyed his commentary and the back and forth with McCord. That being said, I cringed at the start of his new season start to the show. As long as I can remember, he always started with a monologue of some sort. In the past it was done without an audience, with the exception of "Feherty Live" shows. Now he has an audience, or it looks like it from behind. When I heard the laugh track I couldn't believe it. After each joke the exact same laugh track ran, so they either block audience laughs or their was no actual audience! I never saw anything but a rear shot so I don't know. I stopped watching after the third joke so maybe things changed. I love Feherty, but if this is the new format, I'll At least pass on the monologue.

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Ric at Joes

Feherty is a buffoon. I posted something on FB a week or so ago that Feherty quit being funny or compelling when he started taking Feherty too seriously.

He can be a candidly and wickedly good journalist, poignant and funny, but he's forever getting in the way of himself now. He has this checklist of questions and quips he just HAS to get through, no matter what, and as a result he soils himself and otherwise good interviews. Cue up the Nick Saban piece for evidence of that. And the studio show has just gone off the rails.

It's as with McCord. McCord was fine out the chute, but after all these years he's just a caricature. Now I don't want my analysts/announcers being smarmy eunuchs like Nantz, but the Bozo Show isn't the answer either.

Don't know that I would call him a buffoon, but he has surely slid down the food chain in recent years. I like most of the interviews still and he even comes up with a decent quip here and there. Unfortunately he also spits some out that remind you of Rich Little doing Richard Nixon these days. I'm sure a line of producers and directors over the years have encouraged him to milk his character. Bad news is he fell for it.

I miss the guy that walked out of the port-o-pot!

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Ric at Joes