{"id":98838,"date":"2021-01-23T16:15:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T21:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=98838"},"modified":"2021-01-23T16:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T21:15:29","slug":"legendary-talk-show-host-larry-king-dies-at-87-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=98838","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Talk Show Host Larry King Dies at 87 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=98838\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=98838\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-98839 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/00king-larry-toppix-articleLarge-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/00king-larry-toppix-articleLarge-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/00king-larry-toppix-articleLarge.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American television and radio host Larry King died January 23, 2021, in Los Angeles, California, after being hospitalized with COVID-19. He was 87.<\/p>\n<p>King was born Lawrence Harvey Zeigler in Brooklyn, New York on November 19, 1933. He got his start as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and 1960s and in 1978 as the host of THE LARRY KING SHOW. From 1985-2010 he hosted the nightly interview television program LARRY KING LIVE on CNN, where he interviewed a broad range of guests and controversial figures, to prominent politicians and leading figures in the entertainment industry. From 2012-2020 he hosted LARRY KING NOW. In addition, he hosted POLITICKING WITH LARRY KING, a weekly political talk show from 2013-2020.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career King often appeared as himself in several TV series and films, including GHOSTBUSTERS (1984), THE SIMPSONS (1989-), THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW (1992-1998), COACH (1989-1997), THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (1996), MURPHY BROWN (1988-2018), SPIN CITY (1996-2002), CONTACT (1997), THE JACKAL (1997), FRASIER (1993-2004), PRIMARY COLORS (1998), ENEMY OF THE STATE (1998), THE KID (2000), JOHN Q (2002), THE PRACTICE (1997-2004), THE STEPFORD WIVES (2004), BOSTON LEGAL (2004-2008), THE CLOSER (2005-2012), UGLY BETTY (2006-2010), SWING VOTE (2008), 30 ROCK (2006-2013), and AMERICAN CRIME STORY (2016-). King also lent his voice to play Doris, the Ugly Stepsister in SHREK 2 (2004), SHREK THE THIRD (2007), and SHREK FOREVER AFTER (2010).<br \/>\nRingside Report sends our condolences to Larry King\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] By Geoffrey Huchel American television and radio host Larry King died January 23, 2021, in Los Angeles, California, after being hospitalized with COVID-19. He was 87. King was born Lawrence Harvey Zeigler in Brooklyn, New York on November 19, 1933. He got his start as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[25028],"class_list":["post-98838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-legendary-talk-show-host-larry-king-dies-at-87-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98838"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}