IrresistibleB1tch said:

Hey U can send that chocolate ova hear
I'll take good care of it

i remember hearing about him too, but i don't think he was "big" over here.




and i have no idea what his name is, but michael something sounded right.

ThreadCula said:

deal! but only if you can help Reincarnate to figure this thing out!

ThreadCula said:

Hey hands off my chocolate! .... I may need that if this goes on for much longer.

fantasyislander said:

YAY ... I'll keep searching for talk show hosts called Michael - it rings a bell with me too.

thinking, thinking.... thinking..... fuck me i got nothing

Reincarnate said:

maybe letterman or leno or whoever he was on has an archive of past guests?

fantasyislander said:

hmmmm ... that could work.

I'm getting bored of googling "Michael Talk Show" ... does anyone realise how many Michael's in America have talkshows?

Reincarnate said:

the only one was Micheal Medved but he's wayyyyy older

IAintTheOne said:

I think this guy would be around 20-22 now.

Reincarnate said:

i've gone blank

The only info I found was the Ortegas

http://tv.zap2it.com/tved...7C,00.html

ThreadCula said:

Nope but he had kind of a cheesy smile like that guy in the picture.

And really slicked-back 80s hair.

I don't think anything has ever driven me so crazy. I'm a woman possessed.

Reincarnate said:

it's driving me nuts, too! ANY other information??

IrresistibleB1tch said:

Good ... I don't want to be alone in nut-dom.

OK, here's what I can remember.

It was filmed in his house.
I think his dad operated the camera and his mum produced food for the guests.
He had some quite high-profile guests on at the time - it seemed to be the "in" thing to appear on his show.
He was very cheesy. He came across as really precocious. He asked questions as though he was David Letterman or Johnny Carson.
I think the show title was "The xxxx xxxx Show" and it had his name in the title.
It started out as a project he was doing for college, I think, but he ended up getting a moderate degree of fame through it.
I saw around 5 or 6 shows - I think he was shown for only a season over here and it would have been around 5 or 6 years ago I think, maybe a little more.

... I can't think of much more than that, but I've got his image in my mind really clearly. Obviously that doesn't help anyone else ...

Reincarnate said:

what channel was it on in the UK - something like MTV or VH1?

IrresistibleB1tch said:

It definately wasn't on a mainstream channel. It may have been MTV but I think it may have been on the same channel that the I Love Busey Show was on ... hold up, maybe that's a way to find it. Good thinking!

Reincarnate said:

Is he fat?

ThreadCula said:

No, he wasn't back then - he was average build. Very dark hair, almost black.

I'm thinking now that if I'm With Busey was 2003 it may have been around that time.

ok who was on the show?

ThreadCula said:

I can't remember ... all I remember was being surprised that he got some actors on who were quite famous, because he was just a kid.

No need for Martina's chocs!!!!!

In desperation I registered with the imdb forums and within 5 minutes someone had answered my question - fantastic forum if you ask me, full of intelligent media-savvy peeps, unlike this place!

Anyway, what a disappointment - no YouTube clips!

Here's a photo though:

Reincarnate said:

Never seen him in my life

ThreadCula said:

yeah, i have no idea who he is either!

ThreadCula said:

I feared everyone would say that.

I loved his shows - they were so cheesy they were practically unwatchable. But kinda cult-like, in a warped kinda way.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

Me either!

I remember watching this.
It aired right before Anna-Nicloes's show.

There was big talk that he was going to become really big.

Then he just disappeared.

Reincarnate said:

i remember him!! i never saw a show, but i heard of him. and i KNEW michael sounded right.

i've been lurking on this thread like forever. i'm so glad you found the answer! btw i've seen him before...

Never seen the guy looks like the hellspawn of Gilbert Gotfried