#see; this is why you don't get to male tumblr posts before your morning coffee you dumb bitch

[lol-jackles]

I read your answer about Jared's interview on K & R. I see what you're saying but I found myself rolling my eyes at the immediate talk about his height and his hair and beanies like they looked up stuff about him on the internet so they'd have stuff to talk about. I wasn't expecting an in depth interview about philosophy or life but it seemed so shallow I guess. And bit on the show was pointless at this stage. But Jared is much more natural than Jensen. I don't mind if you post your answer.

You don’t watch morning talk shows do you, especially those hosted by women.  Male hosted morning talk shows can get serious on the Al Gore cereal level, but come on, it’s supposed to be shallow because most people aren’t tumblr-basement-dwellers stalking celebrities’ private lives or writing 47 essays of metas based on one line in one scene because people are busy with lives on their own, or at least busy updating their own social media accounts.  There are still general SPN fans to this day that doesn’t know Sam and Ruby got married and has three kids.  Even morning new are soft and shallow because people want to start off their day with fluffy ‘news” stories to go with their morning coffee.   

The afternoon and night talk shows goes a little deeper but not by much. What do we remember Oprah for?  “You get a car, You get a car, Everybody gets a car!”  Sure Oprah had done some heavy subjects but most of her audience watch for for the feel good stuff.  Ellen DeGeneres’s persona is sunny and sweet and Dory.  When Rosie O’Donnel hosted her own talk show she was crowned the “Queen of Nice” before she cut off her hair and showed her true off colors.

So we established that talk shows’ contexts are supposed to be shallow, but they still need to contect with the audience.  How do you do that?  Usually I say you have to be a good storyteller especially in cases for lesser-known celebrities but I’ll get to that later.  Well-known celebrities rely on their presence and brand.  Empty-suit Obama went on Oprah not to talk about his policies but to sell a cult of personality, and it worked.  Sexual-harasser Bill Clinton wearing sunglasses and playing the saxophone on the Arsenio Hall show made him one of the cool kids and vote-able.

For lesser-known celebrities they need to be entertaining by being a good story teller.   A good actor can take a writer’s bad line and make it believable, same for story tellers who can spin the most mundane into something entertaining.  Annie Proulx, the author of Brokeback Mountain, is a genius because she can write about the everyday life in a trailer park and make it sound as thrilling and interesting as a spy novel.     

Jensen’s story of how Zepplin got his name was boring because he was telling it as if he was a teacher.  Nobody wants to listen to a teacher, we already had to do that for grade 1 through college.  Jensen’s story of how JJ got her name is one of the more boring shit I’ve seen in fan’s convention reports and videos.  If you’re going to saddle your kids with non-traditional names then you better have a good story to go with it and tell it well.  Jensen knows he’s not an entertaining storyteller and that’s why he rarely does solo panels and prefers to be paired up with entertainers like Jared.  Jared has told the same stories on Jimmy Kimmel and Kelly & Ryan but he spin it in a way that’s entertaining for the audience.