So I’m watching Larry King’s tribute to the late George Carlin and I’m thinking to myself, “Oh, he’s got Jerry Seinfeld on for the hour to talk about George Carlin. That’s nice.” Then Larry tosses to the first break and announces that Seinfeld will be leaving but Bill Maher will be joining them. “Fine,” I think. Those are a pair of great guests.

Bill Maher’s doing a fine job as Larry cuts to break two and announces that Roseanne Barr and Lewis Black will join the panel on the other side. So now we’re up to four guests. Which is about two too many.

Now Maher, Black and Barr are yapping away when Larry goes to break three. “Don’t go away. After the break Carlin’s daughter and brother will be with us to talk about the late comedian.” So, to recap, we’ve had Seinfeld, Maher, Black, Barr, Carlin’s daughter and Carlin’s brother. Surely that’s it, right? Wrong!

Back from the last break and surprise! Staring back at us is Hef, smoking jacket and all. “Hugh Hefner, how well did you know Carlin?” Really? Hefner?

How many producers does Larry have? Want to cram anybody else on the show? With this many folks, each gets about 5 minutes to speak, so none of them gets to say anything meaningful. For example, Carlin’s brother is pouring his heart saying he’ll “never forget [Carlin]. I’ll never forget him,” and Larry cuts him off: “Yeah, Roseanne what did he mean to you?” Who gives a shit? I think his brother would have a bit more insight to Carlin than would Roseanne, who admitted on the program that she’d interviewed him on her talk show in 1998 but that was about it. Anybody remember that interview? Thought so.

Gee Larry. You’ve been in the interviewing business for around 285 years. Try asking an interesting question to an interesting person.