Sally Jessy Raphael

The best daytime talk show ever on television. And Sally's best guest ever was con man Steve Comisar (aka Brett Champion) who not only conned the entire studio audience but he also got into huge fight with one of the other guests. After Comisar took all the audience members credit cards Sally announced she was running away with the Comisar. Now those were the days of exiting daytime television! Come back Sally! Now would be the perfect time for a newly revamped Sally show! There's literally nobody else on daytime television as good as Sally Jessy Raphael. She is funny, witty, and who doesn't love the trademark red glasses!

TV sure has changed now that Sally's not on anymore. The only episodes I really liked were the wild teen episodes where they got sent to boot camp or jail or wherever. (You can currently see that on "Maury", by the way.) But nowadays, when I look back on those shows, I sometimes wonder if any of them were for real. Remember how Sgt. Julu used to scream his head off about a millimeter away from those kids' faces? Or how he had them lean against the wall, scoot down halfway, stand on their toes and hold their hands out? And Pat Ferrari stood there enjoying the kids' misery? In real life, if anyone tried to put a kid through that, the kid would fight back. What do you think?

In 1999, Sally, invited Manuel Diaz, The Mexican Wolfman to appear on the show, in an episode titled "Odd Odd News." I went along as an interpreter. Sally was a perfect host, especially to Manuel. Where others were afraid to approach him because of his exotic appearance, Sally walked right up to him, and they shared a nice conversation. Manuel, who is now in Mexico, always remembers with fondness, his trip to New York, and meeting Sally Jesse Raphael.

Zhu didn't see the show at its best. Sally has been on longer than most other talk shows and is sadly being removed from the air now due to the fact that she can't and **won't** stoop to the sideshow tactics used by others in the business. The fact is that when she isn't force to do sensationalist shows, she shows a great deal of heart and tackles major issues. She does great celebrity interviews and has a wonderful sense of honor. I, for one, will truly miss her and wish her luck. Hopefully she will find her way back onto television again in the near future.

I miss Sally Jessy Raphael with her glasses and her mannerisms. She came before Oprah Winfrey's success in 1986. I liked her and the show because she dealt with difficult teens and issues like Satanism, homosexuality, transgender, cannibalism, cults, etc. I was really upset that they canceled her show because she was one of the most genuine talk show hosts around who really cared about her guests and audiences. She always wore those red eyeglasses and showed genuine emotion. During the 1990s, the talk show craze included Sally who deserved a lot of praise for her performance. She wasn't Oprah nor did she try to be Phil Donahue. She was Sally and we still miss her show even five years later.