RIP Jerry Springer
 

https://www.tmz.com/2023/04/27/jerry...ger-dead-dies/

Jerry Springer, one of the most influential and controversial figures in TV history, has died ... TMZ has confirmed.

Jerry hosted the smash hit syndicated talk show "The Jerry Springer Show" for 27 years ... and it was never a boring moment on the raucous and wild show -- which was known for its outrageous guests who usually got into crazy fights as the audience cheered, "Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!"

A family spokesperson says Jerry was battling a "brief illness." Our sources tell us it was cancer, and he was diagnosed a few months ago, and this week he took a turn for the worse.

The spokesperson says he died Thursday morning, peacefully at his home in the Chicago area.

Wow.

I had a buddy drag me to the Jerry Springer show as an audience member once. And it turned out to be the most nonsense show ever - it was strippers. Stripping. And that's it. Nothing else - no "story", no "drama", just strange. It made no sense.

But my buddy and I hung out after and met a cameraman who worked there named "Frank" who gave us a tour of the place after the show, so that was fun.

I don't know what kind of icon we could really say that Springer was - but he was an icon.

At the time it aired in a very innocent, carefree 90s, there was nothing quite like it...then everything became like it, and it definitely wore out it's welcome.

I have fond memories of staying off school sometimes and ITV would air it around 2 in the afternoon, about an hour before the kids programmes came on.

I remember watching the show a lot when I was in 10th grade in High School. My H.S. classes didn't start till after 11:00am so I watched Jerry and Maury on TV till I left for school in the morning. That was the first time I ever really saw it, although I remember my parents talking about it in the early 90's.

I only ever watched it during that time, but I'll never forget it. The first time i ever heard the word, "transexual' was on that show, I saw endless lesbians, I heard the word, "carpet muncher" for the first time, "dyke," I saw woman say "I'm really a man!" and then of course Steve the bodyguard stopping all the fights and people throwing chairs at each other chanting, "Jerry! Jerry!"

I think people have to remember in the pre-internet and pre-youtube days, seeing all these "alternate lifestyles" first happened on Jerry Springer.

Wow, this one came really sudden. Well, he was all too recognizable and in his own way entertaining to many, and he will be remembered well. Rest well in heaven Jerry Springer.

I suppose if you have to go from pancreatic cancer then I guess being 79 and not even knowing until you're time it almost up, skipping the stress of knowing about it for a long time, isn't so bad.

Used to watch his show after school back in the day, at least until it became a one theme show about trashy, screaming people wanting paternity tests.

I liked how the show popularized "freaks" and crazy nutjobs, like people having affairs with family members, midgets, women who were really men and their partner somehow didn't know (I don't see how that's possible, but whatever), and of course a lot of lesbos and gays.

You guys have to remember this is pre-internet, pre-social media, pre-youtube. This was the only outlet for people like this. It was like a circus or a clown show. It's why the show was so popular to see "underground society" on TV for the first time.

It's funny they didn't use the term "transgender" back then, they used to say "she-males" or "transexuals." I wonder why they stopped calling them she-males.

Because she-male is probably offensive

Probably my favorite of his show, and honestly probably the only one that ever actually stuck in my mind, was a woman who'd had fraternal twin sons... who quite obviously has two different fathers. Good god woman... she wasted no time at all in those hookups.

Because terms sometimes fall to of use and the people actually affected by the label want one they personally are okay with being called? Seems fair to me that anyone who has to put up with being labeled (which probably applies in some form to most of us at some point or other in life) should get to be the one who insists on what they're called.

After all, us adults who are into and collect from a "kids franchise"... we could all certainly be called some things, but likewise we have every right as the fans of this franchise to protect it and our own name from the stereotypes that still plague it.

Jerry was actually born here in the UK during the war, so... I guess we can call him a British export back to you guys? :lol:

But maybe because of that, he was a ubiquitous presence, along with Ricki Lake, on British daytime TV during the 90s.

Probably the same reason you don't see many folks calling Black people colored or porchmonkey anymore. Language evolves.

A long time ago I called the Jerry Springer show and left them a message telling them a made up story about how I am involved in a love triangle involving a trans person. They ended up calling me back and left me a message saying that they would pay for my flight and hotel stay to be on the show. However, I couldn't get any of my friends to go on the show with me.