![]() I kind of do that through music and playing to audiences.” The key is just to try and get yourself happy somehow, whether that’s spiritual or whatever. The world is full of inequality once that’s there, there’ll always be sh*t. Most of us still have shoes on our feet, y’know, and food in our bellies. “I just think, no matter how broken things are and get, we still just carry on,” he says. Yet Jerry Fish is optimistic about the future, something that is borne out in the good-time feeling of the Mudbugs’ music and live shows. It probably will be looked at as the Irish crime of the century, the so-called ‘Celtic Tiger’.” “You would think it’s about the recession but really it was about before that, I thought we were all high on money. Given such lyrical concerns, it’s no surprise that the album was praised by critics as an uplifting response to the recession – even if that’s not what Jerry intended. “I’d come up on deck and there’d be a carnival on and nobody noticed there was a gashing big hole in the boat.” “In the basement, I felt like I was in the bilge of the ship pumping out water,” he adds. The chorus goes ‘everybody know the ship is sinking/there’s a hole in the boat/but still we row’. That’s where songs like Hole In The Boat come from. I hired a basement in Temple Bar for four to six months to write the record. “The album was done commando style, if you will,” he says. He’s survived by his daughter Katie Springer, whom he shares with ex-wife Micki Velton, and his sister Evelyn.How did the Mudbug Club and Jerry go about making the album? Springer’s most recent television appearance was on the “Masked Singer” in October 2022, where he performed as “The Beetle,” crooning a Frank Sinatra tune. He was the smartest, most generous, kindest person I’ve ever known.” Steve Wilkos, who became famous himself as the security guard on “The Jerry Springer Show,” said in a statement, “Other than my father, Jerry was the most influential man in my life. “Loved working with him (on America’s Got Talent), loved hanging out with him (we lived in same hotel for 2 years), loved arguing with him (he loved his politics), loved everything about him. “TV icon & such an intelligent, warm, funny man.” “Jeez, this sucks RIP Jerry Springer,” said television personality Piers Morgan, who was also a judge on the reality show. He also served as judge for the second and third seasons of “America’s Got Talent.” After its wrap in 2018, Springer hosted “Judge Jerry” for three seasons and continued to offer fans his point of view through a podcast. Springer also had an expansive career in broadcast television and news before starring on his eponymous talk show, which launched in 1991. Senate and considered a bid for Ohio governor as recently as 2017. Springer regained his council seat in 1975 and then served as Cincinnati mayor from 1977 to 1978. ![]() ![]() He nabbed a seat on the city council in 1971 but suddenly resigned in 1974, citing “very personal family considerations.” He was also in the midst of a probe involving prostitution at the time. Just two years later, Springer, then a lawyer in Cincinnati, launched an unsuccessful run for congress. Kennedy’s ill-fated presidential campaign. In 1968, he worked as an aide in Robert F. He studied political science at Tulane University and got a law degree from Northwestern University. Springer called it “escapist entertainment,” while critics saw the lurid drama as an attack on America’s social values and morals.īefore he shot to fame on TV, Springer was a politician and journalist. In 1998, its viewership even beat “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” “The Jerry Springer Show” was a ratings juggernaut at its peak. ![]() The wild episodes boasted titles like “Stripper Sex Turned Me Straight,” “Stop Pimpin’ My Twin Sister,” and “Hooking Up With My Therapist.” ![]() Their bouts would often devolve into chaos and even nudity, with family and friends hurling obscenities at each other and brawling onstage while people in the crowd cheered and chanted Jerry’s name. While it started out as a platform for Springer’s musings on politics and other topical matters, it quickly transformed into an afternoon side show for outlandish and rowdy guests with no qualms about airing their dirty laundry before a live studio audience and viewers at home. ![]()
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