Today, a talk show clip of a woman dumped for her twin or “proud to be a b***h” would go viral before you finished this sentence. Decades ago, we had Talk Soup. Debuting Jan. 7, 1991, the irreverent four-day-a-week E! show hard-launched the career of host Greg Kinnear, who, noted The New York Times, seemed “constantly bemused by the oddballs and topics at hand, without ever resorting to bashing or mean-spiritedness.” John Henson succeeded him, plugging in more comedy sketches, followed by Hal Sparks and Aisha Tyler, who reminds Us, “As outrageous as it could be, Talk Soup also had an Emmy!”
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