As his CNN reign comes to an end, what can we expect out of Larry King’s stand-up comedy in 2011?
Larry King has enjoyed a career in radio and TV broadcasting for more than five decades, but after Friday night, the 77-year-old's reign on CNN with Larry King Live will come to a close. So what's next? Retirement? Not exactly. As you may have read and/or heard, the septuagenarian wants to embark on a stand-up comedy tour. Who does he think he is, Glenn Beck? In an interview published a couple of weeks ago in New York Magazine, however, King said he definitely wanted to pursue life as a comedian, saying: “I’m funny. I’m going to do stand-up. That’s what I love.” King stood by his intentions when he appeared more recently on Jimmy Kimmel Live, telling Kimmel: "I want to do some comedy. You know, I do a lot of conventions and stuff, speak a lot. I like making people laugh, telling stories." He said his current wife would open for him on the road by singing. "We did it in Vegas. We did it in Niagara Falls. I love it." But why? He continued, telling Kimmel: "A comic has something nobody else has: The power to walk on a stage, have an audience in the grasp of your hands, and make 'em laugh. There's nothing like that. There's no bigger high. It's bigger than sex!" So what will Larry King, the talk-show host, look and sound like as a...
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