Connie Chung Croaks...

[NightWolve]

OK, this was funny if not bizarre. MSNBC cancels yet another shortlived program, this one with Connie Chung and here goes a "performance" she delivered with her final show:http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/connie_croaks_adieu_entertainment_michael_shain.htm

June 19, 2006 -- THE ratings-starved Maury Povich and Connie Chung weekend show on MSNBC ended its short, six-month run with a bizarre send-off - sure to live on as a tone-deaf stunt Chung will not soon be allowed to forget.
Perched on the edge of a white grand piano and decked out in a full-length evening gown, the former CBS and CNN anchorwoman warbled a farewell song that put down Dan Rather (with whom she co-anchored the CBS news in the early 1990s), her husband and cable TV - all at the same time.

"Thanks for the memories," she sang to the tune of the old standard:

We came to do a show for very little dough

 

By little, I mean I could make more working on skid row

That's cable TV.

Thanks for the memories

This half a year flew by

That Maury, what a guy

Instead of asking: Who's the daddy? He could talk Dubai

How stunned were we all

Thanks for the memories

The thing I love the most

About hubby as co-host

Is all those other anchors were as dull as melba toast

The sparks really flew

Thanks for the memories

Now that the show is through

I've got bigger things to do

But Maury is back weighing in:

Fat babies, how taboo!

He can't get enough.


At the end of the song, she collapsed on the floor of the studio as the camera faded out.

Video excerpts of Chung's off-key performance began popping up on the Internet almost as soon as it aired Saturday night.

The couple's half-hour talk show, "Weekends with Maury & Connie," aired its final edition Saturday and Sunday.

The weekly program, which began last January, marked Chung's return to TV after her weeknight CNN series was canceled in 2003.

Heh.

[JoeQuaker]

Heard that this morning on my favorite local morning radio show... it was unbearable. It was suposed to be funny her PR people said. Yeah... right.

[esteban666]

This is one of the most insane things I've seen. Clearly, she was going for camp, but clearly, she was unbearable during 99% of the song.

I have to give her credit for the finale, though, the way she convincingly fell to the ground... that alone earned her 1% of goodness, in my book.

I'm serious.