Just got off the air with Talk Radio Network's Ellis Henican. Ellis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Newsday columnist with his own radio show, cartoon character voice, and Fox News talking head gig as a regular contributor on "Fox News Watch" and Bill O'Reilly. Been on his TRN show before. Was on his former WOR talk show.
I adore Ellis. Yeah, his liberal, but... Ten minutes is too short. We could talk forever. I feel the same about Radio Hall of Famer Jim Bohannon. I am a frequent guest on Jim's nationally syndicated radio talk show - and we're great friends and former broadcast colleagues.
Ellis seemed to have left the building as I fired off answers: Larry King's marital woes, CNN's Roland Martin's ascot, CNN's shitty ratings and revenue, sexual hypocrites, blah, blah, blah... I last saw Ellis at Talkers Magazine New Media Seminar in March NYC. When I'm around him I act even crazier than I am. I don't know what it is about Ellis but we clicked from the moment we set eyes on each other a couple of years ago at a talk radio thing in NYC. Ellis brings out my Mad magazine National Lampoon humor.
I called Ellis after the show and assured him I'd taken my morning medication!
P.S. Ellis was NOT my source on the earlier Joe Scarborough WABC thing.
Marty, I hope you ripped him a new one. To me, he's just another liberal mouthpiece that lacks common sense.
ReplyDeleteOT- Why is it that only liberals win Pulitzers?
Well, we just talked about non-political stuff.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your kind words, Marty! So when are you coming back on the air with me?
ReplyDeleteSomeday soon, I hope! For sure at the NAB Radio Show in DC September 29.
ReplyDeleteI was fucking nuts on Ellis's show. I sang to him at the end the chorus from Steve Miller's "The Joker." 1974 or so.
ReplyDelete"I really love your peaches wanna shake your tree."
You had to be there.
He probably had to edit it to death....
I was a bit risque and I forgot I was on TRN - Talk Radio Network.
That's OK, Marty!
ReplyDeleteEllis and I both come with time-delayed dump buttons!
(Come to think of it, if you could really come with a time-delay, you wouldn't need a vasectomy).