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Talk Soup | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Presented by | Greg Kinnear John Henson Hal Sparks Aisha Tyler |
Narrated by | Beau Weaver |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 11 |
Production | |
Producers | Aileen Gram Moreno Alex Duda Angela Gordon Mark Tye Turner Stan Evans Jeff Zimmer Bob Taylor Brad Gyori David Bernstein Gregg Cannizzaro Lara Kierlin Ben Cheng Heather Stewart Tom Greenhut |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | E! |
Release | January 7, 1991 May 17, 2002 | –
Related | |
The Soup | |
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Talk Soup is a television show produced for cable network E! that debuted on January 7, 1991, and aired until August 2002. Talk Soup aired selected clips of the previous day's daily talk shows—ranging from daytime entries like The Jerry Springer Show and to celebrity interview shows like The Tonight Show—surrounded by humorous commentary delivered by the host. Although Talk Soup poked fun at the talk shows, it also advertised the topics and guests of upcoming broadcasts. Despite this, several talk shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, refused to allow clips of their shows to be shown on the series.[1] During its run, Talk Soup was nominated for five Daytime Emmy Awards, winning once in 1995 for Outstanding Special Class Program. A show based on it, The Soup, aired from 2004 to 2015.
The show frequently poked fun at actors Randolph Mantooth and Mario Van Peebles. Also featured was a womanizing Argentine sock puppet named Señor Sock that had bought several ThighMasters because he was madly in love with Suzanne Somers.