The Alec Baldwin Show

This show was sooooo bad I had to turn it off and immediately delete it from my dvr never to watch again. Just another hollywood opinionated political talk show sharing their vomit....yawn! Apparently there are no more talented writers or entertainers who can make a good talk show. This show made me sad. I watched two old rich privileged egotistical angry hateful once good actors try to stay relevant promoting hate! People are tired of this. We already have enough shows like this on tv and soon this show will be archived on a shelf somewhere.

My goodness how awful. I was curious to watch a new interview show since my retirement from late night viewing, after Leno and Letterman split. I thought that maybe I'd find humor or at least the intimacy of a clever interview. Sorry, not here.

I'll tell you what that smell is, and it's simply awful! The first two interviews were with Robert DeNiro and Kim Kardashian and they were simply "dumb and really boring".

I watched the first two (2) interviews Alec Baldwin hosted with the top Hollywood film star Robert DeNiro, and former porn star and now reality TV's Kim Kardashian. I recall a few years ago when Alec Baldwin was being interviewed by the superior Hollywood host interviewer for Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Robert Osborne, God rest his soul. Then Alec attempted to take over Robert Osborne's interview seat after Robert succumbed to his illness. Let's face it, there are very few really sincere professional Hollywood interviewers who can complete the necessary preliminary homework before sitting down face to face as interview host and interviewee celebrity to bring out some hidden secrets and true feelings of their guests and I just have not seen that ability and/or work effort from Alec Baldwin.

In the Kim Kardashian interview Alec asks Kim about her reality show "but this is something that you took control?" and Kim's response was "I really wanted it....since I was 11, 12 years old and I watched the real world." Really Kim? Is that what possessed someone to turn the camera on during an intimate sexual romp encounter with your then boyfriend Ray-J? Before that sex tape was released the then 22-year-old Kim was a little known heiress to the late lawyer Robert Kardashian, and she was employed as the personal stylist of singer Brandy Norwood and Kim became the girlfriend of Brandy's little brother Willie "Ray J" Norwood. Baldwin (purposely?) neglected to ask any question about the initial fame and success Kim attained from her sex tape. Kim even told Alec not once, but twice, "you can ask me anything", and yet Alec avoided the Kim Kardashian infamous sex tape which is really what gave Kim's name such instant notoriety and recognition. Totally misleading, and this is the kind of star quality The Alec Baldwin TV show is attempting to build his brand on?

What I gleaned from the very first interview Alec did with Robert DeNiro was nothing other than DeNiro slouches demonstrably like a slob in his chair and DeNiro probably only used this opportunity to share with his buddy Alec their personal views on the political landscape.

Boy, how I miss the late great Brian Linehan and Robert Osborne as bona fide Hollywood host interviewers. I won't be watching any further episodes of the really boring The Alec Baldwin Show unless Alec's can secure either Clint Eastwood or Donald Trump as their future guest(s). Now either of those two interviews would be quite interesting that even a baboon could be the host interviewer and it would still be entertaining.

I really wanted to love this show, as I'm a fan of Baldwin. However, he seems more interested in grandizing himself rather than being engaged in the conversation. Most late night hosts - or any host (Fallon, Kimmel, et al) are great because they let the guests shine and can pivot on the fly based on what they get the guests to open up about. In the first episode, he clearly talks FAR more than the guest (De Niro) to the point it looked like he, De Niro, was getting bored. I think this show is trying to aim at long form, "smart," conversation; I don't know. Either way, it doesn't hit the mark. It's not clever. It's not funny. It's not educational. It's just Alec monologuing with himself with a few moments in between dedicated to the guest. It didn't flow.

Show should be titled "All about Alec." I felt embarrassed for him. A little like my disappointment years ago when Chevy Chased bombed on his talk program. Alec Baldwin won't make 8t past whatever number of shows are under contract. Also, I suspect he will have a tough time getting the artists a large audience would want to see and that the producers will demand for continued support.