Talk Soup
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Starring | Greg Kinnear John Henson Hal Sparks Aisha Tyler Donna D'Errico |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 11 |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Alex Duda Angela Gordon Aileen Gram Deborah Adler Myers |
| Producer(s) | Tom Greenhut Gregg Cannizzaro Ben Cheng Heather Stewart |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
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| Original channel | E! |
| Original run | January 7, 1991 – May 17, 2002 |
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| Followed by | The Soup |
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Talk Soup was a television show produced for cable network E! that debuted on January 7, 1991, as a midseason replacement, 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 of them. A revamped version, The Soup, now airs weekly on E!.
The show frequently poked fun at actors Randolph Mantooth and Mario Van Peebles. Also featured was a womanizing Argentinian sock puppet named Señor Sock that had bought several Thighmasters because he was madly in love with Suzanne Somers.
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[edit] Hosts and awards
Hosts included Greg Kinnear (1991–1995), John Henson (1995–1999), Hal Sparks (1999–2000) and Aisha Tyler (2001–2002). Various celebrities filled in as guest hosts from 2000 to fall 2001, with Donna D'Errico standing-in regularly for summer 2001. Guest hosts include Ryan Seacrest, Roger Lodge, and John Henstein.
Kinnear won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1994 for his involvement with the show, and Talk Soup won an Emmy in 1995 for Outstanding Special Class Program, and was nominated for an Emmy in 1996 for Special Class Writing and Special Class Program. Talk Soup was also nominated in 1996 for the CableACE Award for Outstanding Magazine Show, Series or Special; John Henson nominated for Entertainment or Variety Show Host.
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"Weird Al" Yankovic recorded a song entitled "Talk Soup" for his album Alapalooza. The lyrics describe a man who is desperate to appear on some of the talk shows whose clips appeared in Talk Soup. The song ends with a sample of the E! sound clip played at the end of the television show's end credits. Al on the origin of the song:
Well, to put it bluntly, [E!] kind of jerked me around. The producers of the show approached me, asking me to do a new theme song for the show. I wrote the lyrics (which they approved) and then recorded the song (which they said they "loved"). And then they never used it. Go figure.[1]
In 2004, E! paid homage to Talk Soup by renaming and reformatting The What The? Awards to create the show known today as The Soup with actor Joel McHale as host and co-writer.
One remnant from Talk Soup that got carried over to The Soup is the segment "Chat Stew." "Chat Stew" shows clips from various talk shows and funny comments. The segment is introduced with a CGI crock pot filled with talk show logos and host heads, while a woman voices about the "stew" being "so meaty!"
