12 Classic TV Stars Who Destroyed Their Careers on Live TV
56K views · Sep 22, 2026 · People & Blogs
Comments · 53
@marysheeran519 · 8 days ago
The performers mostly didn't destroy their careers; their bosses did.
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@michaelbrantley.8628 · 3 days ago
Exactly 💯 right ✅️.
@libbaz1413 · 7 days ago
You need to check your photos. You put dozens of Jack Barrys on here—with the care you take to draft the script, take the same care not to put pictures of tattooed 20-somethings in a story of a man who was 39 in the 1950s. Easy to review and fix. Please do that.
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@HollywoodHollow1 · 7 days ago
Live TV really was a different world back then. One bad moment and there was nowhere to hide.
@commonmannn4961 · 4 days ago
Good stuff.
@LauraHowell-cg9qu · 8 days ago
For those who argue this is old news remember some of these folks were bigger in their day than many,or any,of the current network celebrities.<br> It's fascinating to realize T.V.was live and that it was performed as theater.Those performers who thrived in that environment are forgotten now,or barely mentioned.
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@ElaineWood-k2g · 6 days ago
I remember the Charles Rocket SNL debacle. It seems kinda ridiculous now, given the wide acceptance of "colorful language" on TV these days.
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@stephenr3910 · 4 days ago
Ego is deadly.
@stephenr3910 · 4 days ago
A 2-hour block of Jerry Lewis? Sounds like something they would use in interrogations to get people to crack.
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@RatnipTX · 6 days ago
I was 7 years old when I watched the jerk fire La Rosa. I grew up depising Godfrey.
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@dmitrifailla6408 · 6 days ago
The Jokers Wild appeared on CBS on Labor Day 1972, Alongside The New Price is Right & Gambit
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@Serrafimo_Spang · 8 days ago
I remember Awful Godly and Julius LaRosa. I didn't realize Awful had such an ego, but I was just a kid who sometimes stayed up late through incessant begging.😊
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