Dick Clark has Stroke

lookout123 • Dec 8, 2004 3:14 pm
Ok, if Dick Clark is out of the picture, who is going to host the New Year's Eve fest in Time Square??? If Clark isn't there, will we even have a New Year or will we be stuck in 2004 until he can recover??? what do we do, what do we do?

Click for Dick
Radar • Dec 8, 2004 3:21 pm
The man is 75, it shouldn't be a shock. Still he's cool and I hope he recovers.

Dick Clark is so old, he went to a fortune teller and she said in a previous life he was....Dick Clark.
lookout123 • Dec 8, 2004 3:23 pm
Radar wrote:
The man is 75, it shouldn't be a shock.


but, but - i didn't think he was human. :gray:
wolf • Dec 8, 2004 3:29 pm
But ... but ... but ... he's timeless!

The maid must have thought the picture in the attic was just old trash and got rid of it.

The event could be hosted by his replica from The Hollywood Wax Museum ... or perhaps digitally enhanced footage of previous years.

Or maybe pixar could throw something together.

Miss America survived the loss of Bert Parks, and Guy Lombardo ain't playin' on New Year's Eve no more. I remember when Dick Clark was the newer, hipper, alternative ... the Rockin' New Year's concept was not immediately embraced.

Just so long as they don't get Conan O'Brien to host anything. I really fucking hate Conan O'Brien, mostly for failing to be humorous.
lookout123 • Dec 8, 2004 3:32 pm
i'm picturing one of the idiots like the MTV guy that was on TRL that all the 12 year girls liked... what was his name? Carson Daily

or even worse, Ryan Seacrest.

it is just like the election, if we are going to replace the old guy, we better have something better to put in there. unfortunately, i don't see any better choices here either.
ladysycamore • Dec 8, 2004 5:43 pm
lookout123 wrote:
i'm picturing one of the idiots like the MTV guy that was on TRL that all the 12 year girls liked... what was his name? Carson Daily


Yikes!!! :3_eyes: I'd rather have Conan..*sorry Wolf* :D

or even worse, Ryan Seacrest.


Bite your tongue! Nah, hopefully, he'll be too busy playing Casey Kasem on "America's Top 40".

it is just like the election, if we are going to replace the old guy, we better have something better to put in there. unfortunately, i don't see any better choices here either.


Sad, but true.
:(
Elspode • Dec 8, 2004 11:15 pm
Dick Clark is one of those people that is definitely going to get one of my pining, sappy obits when he goes. Talk about a cultural icon.

The New Years Eve shows have been lame as hell for years, but I still tune in to see Dick Clark. Some traditions just demand attention.
Cyber Wolf • Dec 9, 2004 12:05 am
lookout123 wrote:
it is just like the election, if we are going to replace the old guy, we better have something better to put in there. unfortunately, i don't see any better choices here either.


How about our very own xoxoxoBruce? :D
xoxoxoBruce • Dec 10, 2004 9:07 pm
Elspode wrote:
Dick Clark is one of those people that is definitely going to get one of my pining, sappy obits when he goes. Talk about a cultural icon.

Damn....that's almost worth killing him. :biggrin:
How about our very own xoxoxoBruce?
Naw, I'm busy NYE, besides I don't play well with others. :blush:
Radar • Dec 10, 2004 10:44 pm
I hear Dick Clark is a vampire that has to drink the blood of a virgin who is over the age of 16 every year to remain young, but this year he just couldn't find a virgin.
Griff • Dec 11, 2004 8:11 am
Elspode wrote:

The New Years Eve shows have been lame as hell for years...


40 in a row by my count. Just another thing griff doesn't get.
busterb • Dec 11, 2004 6:05 pm
Hello! Who's Dick Clark?
Just kidding. I'm over 60.
lookout123 • Dec 13, 2004 4:28 pm
the news is in and it is even worse than i feared.

*shudder*

Regis Philbin is filling in for Dick Clark and Ashlee Simpson will be hosting on the West Coast. couldn't they have gotten someone less annoying, even Gilbert Godfrey would be better and my ears bleed every time i hear his voice. :(
wolf • Dec 14, 2004 1:42 am
Let us hope that Regis was chosen so that we, the viewing audience, would understand that they don't intend for him to do this ever, ever again.

I didn't see the news, but my mom said that it was reported that there was some event that Regis couldn't do where Dick Clark subbed for him, and this is being done as payback.
cjjulie • Dec 14, 2004 1:55 pm
Yes but where is Kelly Rippa in all this :vomit:
wolf • Dec 14, 2004 2:03 pm
Hopefully on the bottom of the Hudson ...
garnet • Dec 14, 2004 2:26 pm
cjjulie wrote:
Yes but where is Kelly Rippa in all this :vomit:


Oh geez, Regis is bad enough. Let's hope they don't have Kelly there too. Does anyone else find her to be completely annoying? :greenface

I hate going out on New Years Eve, but I just may have to this year since we're all gonna be Dick-less....
Elspode • Dec 14, 2004 5:01 pm
lookout123 wrote:
the news is in and it is even worse than i feared.

*shudder*

Regis Philbin is filling in for Dick Clark and Ashlee Simpson will be hosting on the West Coast. couldn't they have gotten someone less annoying, even Gilbert Godfrey would be better and my ears bleed every time i hear his voice. :(


At least Gilbert *uses* his own voice.
xoxoxoBruce • Dec 15, 2004 5:40 am
wolf wrote:

I didn't see the news, but my mom said that it was reported that there was some event that Regis couldn't do where Dick Clark subbed for him, and this is being done as payback.

No good deed goes unpunished. :rolleyes: