


And people who engaged in incest with siblings. It was a show about people who have sex with animals. Springer, who died on Thursday, saw his show become a huge hit in the 1990s despite being largely loathed by people who thought of themselves as cultured. He didn’t win that race, but his very specific kind of candor - his ability to talk about private things like sex in a seemingly direct but very raw way - helped him gain a foothold in local cable television, which then led to the arrival of “The Jerry Springer Show.” I’m not afraid, even of the truth, and even if it hurts.”

Springer: He had been on the City Council, had been our mayor for a year, had even run for governor of Ohio in 1982 with an ad where he talked about paying a sex worker with a check, concluding: “This commercial should be proof. But everyone in my hometown, Cincinnati, knew of Mr. It was 1997 and I was not very well versed in pop culture, having grown up watching the “Masterpiece Theater” spinoff “Mystery!” with my parents. When I was 10 years old, Jerry Springer was the most famous person in America.
