God Help The Price is Right

So I had heard a rumor that Rosie O'Donnell was vying for The Price is Right hosting job. I thought, "Yeah right, Bob would NEVER go for that. He's a classy guy." It's a job for someone who can step back and let the contestants be the show. I mean, for 30 years his only political statement was his signoff, "Remember folks, to spay and neuter your pets." Simple, effective and not a topic people can dispute as being important or not. True that he had all those sexual harassment suits thrown at him at one point, but he's an old-school game show host with young scantily-clad models around him all day... what do you expect?

Rosie can't be that unpolitical and subtly opinionated.

Just when I thought the whole thing was just a rumor, then I saw this in People magazine today (my comments inserted with the bullets):

Rosie O'Donnell Meets with Price Is Right Producers
FRIDAY JUNE 22, 2007 09:50 AM
By Emily Fromm

As promised, Rosie O'Donnell met with The Price Is Right producers on Thursday – although the speculation that she'll replace Bob Barker as the show's host has been losing steam.

• THANK GOD...
  

Asked on her blog how her interview went, O'Donnell replies, "we had a nice lunch" – but does not elaborate. Another reader writes, "I see that Drew Carey's name has been thrown into the mix. Any comments?" Writes O'Donnell: "i love drew carey."

• DREW CAREY AS THE HOST OF PIR?? NAHH.

Barker started the buzz about O'Donnell replacing him when he said at last week's Daytime Emmys that he had "no doubt" O'Donnell would be a good host for the game show. But he backed off on Wednesday, telling the Associated Press: "I think there are several candidates who could do the show, and Rosie is certainly one of them."

• NOOOOOOOO, BOB!! SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!! DO I HAVE TO GET HAPPY GILMORE TO SMACK YOU?

O'Donnell herself sounded pessimistic about her chances in a recent video post on her blog: "I don't know if it's gonna work out," she told fans. "I just think it's a part of American nostalgia, and it's what America needs right now. It would be good for me, but I don't know if it's right for them."

• WELL AT LEAST SHE'S BEING REALISTIC. I IMAGINE AT THE LUNCH THEY HAD, THEY PROBABLY TOLD HER SHE CAN'T BE A LOUDMOUTH JERK AS THE HOST OF THE SHOW AND SHE PROBABLY ANSWERED..."WHATEVER." THAT IS NOT THE KIND OF ATTITUDE THE SHOW -- OR THE REST OF THIS WORLD -- NEEDS. WE CAN ONLY HOPE AND PRAY THAT SHE DOES NOT LAND THIS GIG.