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This could be seen in almost every interview and even on that David Letterman appearance. Opie isn't the funnyman, he's not an interviewer, he's not terribly interesting, and his only grasp of anything pop culture is Housewife reality shows. So who wants to see or listen to a boring old dad who lost touch with the normies a quarter of a century ago. It would be like if your Aunt had a podcast. Opie is somebody's Aunt.
One of the things that I noticed was that Anthony and Jim (to a smaller degree) would just rail-road over something marginally funny from Opie that did have legs and could have been appreciated if it received a better reaction. In the Letterman interview, you can just see that Opie really wants to add to the interview, but Anthony just jumps all over and keeps taking the spotlight from Opie. Yes, Anthony was the funnier of the two, but he was no-doubt second in command. And as such, Anthony should have known his role and let Opie shine a bit more. Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's sidekick on The Tonight Show, was famous for implementing and preaching the mantra that "The host should always be the funniest person in the room." For the sake of the show, Anthony really could have made some better decisions like setting Opie up to look and sound better than he actually was.
In pro-wrestling talk, Anthony's refusal to put-over Opie and give the Opster a proper babyface comeback, ultimately led to the interview being -5 stars and turning the Opie & Anthony Show into WCW 2.0, brother. Okay, maybe more like the end of Demolition 2.0.
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