Jerry Springer Compares Too Hot For TV to The Soup

– Jerry Springer spoke with PWInsider for a new interview discussing his WWE Network show Too Hot For TV, which debuts tonight after Raw. Check out the highlights:

On working with WWE: “The WWE is a natural fit, certainly for what we do on [The Jerry Spinger Show]. It’s just that in WWE, they are bigger, stronger, faster and better looking, but otherwise, it’s the same show. When they asked me to host the show and show clips from their vault of 20-30 years, they have so much material. To be able to show clips of their ‘finest moments’ and then joke around about them, it’s so natural an idea. The only question is, ‘how come we didn’t do this sooner?'”

On the show’s format: “It’s like The Soup is for talk shows, where they show clips and the guys jokes around about it. This will be the same thing. We’ll show clips of great matches and great drama and the outrageousness of the WWE, and I’ll joke around about it. It’s the same genre in a sense.”

On the first episode: “[It] is about the various romantic efforts that have been made on the show between the wrestlers. Sometimes it’s within the ring. Sometimes, it’s just their private lives or at home and the craziness that came about because of it, the disasters that came about because of attempts at romance…the marriages that fell apart and all the attempts at romance within the lives of these wrestlers. Some of it is really crazy and that’s the theme of the first show.”

On comparing his talk show and WWE: “Well, what Vince McMahon does is a little different and in a sense, perhaps a little more difficult. He and his producers have to create, they have to come up with the drama and what the stories are going to be, in a sense. On my show, we don’t come up with the stories. The people who call us come in with the stories – it’s their lives. So, in my show, it’s just providing the platform and have it come across within one hour, but we don’t have to come up with the storylines. So, to that extent, to what [Vince] does, is probably more difficult.”

On the appeal of The Jerry Springer Show: “That s human history. We are social beings. A couple of thousand years ago, it was the same thing. We just didn’t have television. Back then, people would gather in the marketplace or gather in a town square and they would talk among themselves about what was happening in their neighborhood and if someone did something weird or crazy, that would be what they would be talking about. ‘Oh, did you hear what so-and-so did? Isn’t that unbelievable?’ So, that conversation has taken place throughout history, in literature, it’s in the Bible. There’s never, ever been anything, for example, on a talk show, that you can’t find someone in The Bible, of Shakespeare, or great literature. It’s only the technology that has changed and we are social beings. We are fascinated in how other people live and relating it to our own lives. That’s human nature and if we had television 2,000 years ago, we’d have had the same shows.”

On if there’s anyone from WWE’s romances that he would have wanted to delve deeper into on his own talk show: “There’s nothing deep going on at our show…Everyone in their own family has at least one story – and I don’t mean scandalous – that if the rest of the world knew about, they’d be scratching their heads and going, ‘Oh my Gosh?’ Everyone has an Uncle Bob or whatever in their family, sure.”

On the impact of social media: “Just look at Facebook and Instagrams. What are kids today not sharing? It’s everybody’s worry and should be. We will see. This generation will grow up learning the consequences of it, so the next generation will probably be more circumspect in terms of what they share.”