I noticed a couple of days ago that MSNBC has pulled Jesse Ventura’s talk show from the air and has no plans to bring it back.
Apparently, Ventura has been the host of an hour-long Saturday evening show, called “Jesse Ventura’s America,” taped in St. Paul, Minn., Ventura’s home town. The AP described the program as one in which “the former professional wrestler comment[ed] on issues of the day. His interviews with guests sometimes got combative, and he closed the show each week by picking a hero and dork of the week.” Media reports indicate that the show began airing in October.
I don’t want to sound cruel, but this news raised two questions in my mind:
1. Jesse Ventura had a show on national television? I’d never heard of it or seen anything about it.
2. MSNBC is still on the air? Does anybody watch it?
Regardless, it appears that Ventura’s 15 minutes are now up. He won a fluke election in Minnesota and that didn’t work out too well, he became a commentator for the XFL, which was an embarrassing failure, and now his talk show, which no one saw, has been cancelled.
I hope he saved some of the money he made from his acting career. I particularly enjoyed his role as “Unnamed Prison Guard #1” in Batman Returns.