Who is the best television Interviewer?

[Sexy_Dave]

Linehan by a mile for entertainer interviews - he was so well prepared many interviewees would exclaim "how did you know that?"

Preparation is key and he was the king at it.

 

[Sexy_Dave]

 

[Yoga Face]

george strombolopolous


bill maher

 

[ClassAct]

Howard Stern by a country mile. He's the only guy with the balls to ask the real tough questions. Dylan ratigan of MSNBC fame gets honorable mention, but is a distant second.

 

[lenharper]

Sean Hannerty interviewing Sarah Palin is about as low as you can go

 

[hvacman]

Pierre Burton by far. He would let the guest speak. Brian Linahan was also very good.

 

[Questor]

Charlie Rose. Jon Stewart (most of the time). Mansbridge.

Jon Stewart, from time to time. Unfortunately, most of his interviews are really lame. He spends far too much energy on trying to be funny. I cringe when he brings on an actor and the whole interview is just a shameless plug and Stewart's incessant giggling. On the other hand, when he wants to do a serious interview, he can be brilliant.

Surprised no one has mentioned Steve Paikin.

I have to agree with this. Paikin is the best.

george strombolopolous

George S is great too.

 

[TheShadow]

Linehan by a mile for entertainer interviews - he was so well prepared many interviewees would exclaim "how did you know that?"

Preparation is key and he was the king at it.

Plus,he was also one of the very few who constantly had a lineup of stars wanting to be interviewed by him.He didn't have to do any chasing,which was quite common in his day,especially with the elite personalities.

 

[Nickelodeon]

Dating myself, but it's gotta be Dick Cavett. Sample with John and Yoko below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPowBNpEdQg&feature=related

 

[sleazure]

Jon Stewart, from time to time. Unfortunately, most of his interviews are really lame. He spends far too much energy on trying to be funny. I cringe when he brings on an actor and the whole interview is just a shameless plug and Stewart's incessant giggling. On the other hand, when he wants to do a serious interview, he can be brilliant.

I have to agree with this. Paikin is the best.
George S is great too.

Fucking amateurs!!!! Dame Edna has them all beat.

 

[sleazure]

Dating myself, but it's gotta be Dick Cavett. Sample with John and Yoko below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPowBNpEdQg&feature=related

Dating myself, but I might agree. Was it Dick Cavett who interviewed Janis Joplin? There's an interview on one of her albums where she talks about going to her highschool reunion.

I guess that was David Frost's era, too.

(and Tom Snyder's)

 

[Zombie]

Surprised no one has mentioned Steve Paikin.

Oh yeah, Paikin is quite good. Haven't seen the show in a while

 

[Zombie]

Jon Stewart, from time to time. Unfortunately, most of his interviews are really lame. He spends far too much energy on trying to be funny. I cringe when he brings on an actor and the whole interview is just a shameless plug and Stewart's incessant giggling. On the other hand, when he wants to do a serious interview, he can be brilliant.

Very true. I hate the actor interviews.

 

[Greekstar]

Paikin is good. But no one could make anyone sweat like Mike Wallace from the old 60 minutes.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Steve Paikin is excellent. So is that BBC journalist on Hard Talk. Brian Linehan was brilliant but since he interviewed entertainers, it doesn't put him up there with real news journalists.

 

[thewalker]

Michael Coren.