Every time I throw on an episode of Donahue, all I can see and hear is Phil Hartman doing his impeccable impression of Donahue.

Phil Donahue was the Daytime King for a reason. This is a great episode. Morton Downey Junior ROCKED! LOL. Thanks for sharing.

I loved Donahue and I loved Morton Downey Jr. Why can’t we have civil debates like this now??

I may or may not agree with his personal opinions, but man he had his opinion and it was wonderful he stood by what he believed. I really liked him.

All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I watched these guys through my childhood and loved them all. ❤ Wow!!!! Thank you!!

A great example of why I consider Morton Downey Jr. was the best TV talk show host in America.

This is when my world was in balance

Is it me or does Donahue never seem to age?

Unfortunately, Mort became a flash in the pan. His show was a riot! Al Sharpton got knocked on his tookus. LOL. Thanks for sharing.

we need this man back , immediately. ENUFF SAID

Morton is rapid fire on the cigs ! look where he ended up then.

A trip down memory lane!

Remember him on radio back in the day b4 tv. He owns it, whether you agree or disagree, gotta give him that.

I think he's cool. He's honest about himself, stands by what he believes in. Seeing this redoubled my resoect for him. I didn't realize his connection with the elite of the times then. The Bennets, his father, the Kennedys

Morton Downey Jr. mastered the confrontational, argumentative approach to talk TV before Jerry Springer.

Mort was one of the best who was passionate about what he believed but also allowed opposing opinions to be voiced.

Mort was the OG trash tv guy, dude was a fucking legend!

Morton Donny would go broke buying cigarettes these days

A classic!

I started to watch….but when Phil’s “warning” was at the beginning, forget it. Frankly, want a good talk show? Do it LIVE, and when the music starts playing leading to a commercial, tell that sound guy to zip it!

Morton downey jr and his father were living legends and always will be! And so is phil donahue!

Died at 68, looked 168. Cigarettes kill.

He makes more sense in 2024 then 87

Great interview

I wish I had Morton’s teeth and Donahue’s hair

Tell folks did Opera flat out copy Donahue?😂😂😂😂😂

Arsenio hall show first sir Jan 3rd 89. I always thought the audience “whomping” was invented by Arsenio hall show . 51:54 did mort invent it?

I thought Mort looked a bit like a younger Peter Gabriel.

Notice how is brother cringed or flinched when Morton Downey Jr. put his hand on his shoulder?

Phil getting mad at the audience for being on Mort's side at 32:46 ..... lol

16:31 im pretty sure hes gone now

Damn those were the days!

Mr. Donahue was very gracious on the episode.

DUDE WAS NUTS

Wally George was the original combat TV guy. ..Mort was ok too

Best thing was when Morton declared on the Race episode was how the News Papers Upset the Black Race on the Front Page and the Whites in the back pages

Morton was the real deal

Morton’s opinions are more relative today than they were in 1989.

That Dutch Boy commercial....

I would vote for Morton? 😁

I have a chrysler from 1988 its quite the piece of junk now

2:21…Few two pack a day men now! RIP. (1932-2001)…32:16…Not good eating habits…to say nothing of the TWO PACKS a day.

PAGER EMERGENCY ALERT : Honey , I am on overtime Make SURE you tape that show On High Quality Setting

Imagine a place where everyone sees unfiltered truth

Donahue sure does ask some personal questions this society these days would get offended with that kind of questions especially about family and parents geez

Mort was a cool guy, just hated his smoking.

49:46 PITTMAN!!!!!

Great in Iron Man

Mort was sipping on Gin or Vodka. That wasn't water... 💯🤘

Wait is the baby Downey ?

The shrink called it.

Think Im gonna go buy some Dutchboy paint now.

@15:20 yes from The Holy Bible Romans 1:27. I wish that people would at least know what's in The Holy Bible.. know it like The Pledge of Allegiance at least, where it's there, in your memory. Romans 1:27 “And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”

53:31

It's ironic that Morton bragged about being healthy even though he smoked 3 packs a day because he eventually died of lung cancer

Donahue is hugely responsible for the types of politicians we have today and the idiots who vote for them. He was a classier version of Joy Behar. Mort invented the talk show circuses like Geraldo and Springer that followed. It's hard to say which was worse for society, but I'd propose it was Donahue, because people took his show more seriously, which is more effective for indoctrinating people. Donahue pushed the Leftist agenda by demonizing the opposition and celebrating liberals who adopted the Leftist ideology. It pushed the narrative that you were a "good person" if you accepted/celebrated homosexuality, abortion, and veiled communism as moral and if you slightly opposed any of it, you were a "bad person". In those days, most liberals opposed those issues until the brainwashing took hold. Donahue was the perfect tool for infecting the masses and it's likely that he had government handlers rewarding him for it. Morton Downey Jr. and the types after him helped to cement the Leftist ideology into our society by painting a picture of anti-Leftists as dumb hillbillies and psychos. I think Morton Downey Jr.'s show did a better job at poking fun at ignorance from all sides, but Geraldo and Springer took his effective platform and used it as a tool to create a false image of morality, making it 'cool' to buy into Leftist nonsense and if you didn't, you were the villain on their shows.

Def Leppard groupie at 30:30

Show lasted a year, next.

The guy was an entertainer…he didn’t believe half of what he said.

Morton is DEAD . Phil is not. F M D cool

I Love Phil Donahue

He destroyed his own career with a failed publicity stunt where he claimed he was attacked by skin heads.

He was the biggest fake on TV.

I can't stand Donahue.

❤❤❤❤❤ 🫂 cancer is evil. Cigarettes are really harmless