{"id":218373,"date":"2025-10-16T22:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218373\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:53:10","slug":"rosie-odonnell-says-keanu-reeves-was-one-of-the-worst-guests-on-her-talk-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218373\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosie O\u2019Donnell says Keanu Reeves was \u2018one of the worst guests\u2019 on her talk show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rosie O\u2019Donnell<\/a> has looked back on her eponymous talk show, sharing insights on her favorite and least favorite guests.<\/p>\n

The comedian<\/a> hosted over 1,000 episodes of The Rosie O\u2019Donnell Show, which ran for six seasons from 1996 to 2002, and interviewed many high-profile guests \u2014 one of whom she has deemed \u201cone of the worst.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking Monday on the Australian talk show, Sam Pang Tonight, O\u2019Donnell was blunt in saying, \u201cOne of the worst, who, I love the guy, but he\u2019s not good on talk shows: Keanu Reeves<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s so sweet, he looks gorgeous, I love all his movies, but he would not answer a question,\u201d she elaborated. \u201cI\u2019d say, \u2018So, Keanu, how\u2019s it going? How are you feeling?\u2019 [He\u2019d respond] \u2018Good.\u2019 We were live. We couldn\u2019t retape. I finally said after three minutes, \u2018You know, Keanu, it is a talk show. You have to talk.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the Matrix star’s struggles with initially appearing on talk shows, O\u2019Donnell<\/a> said \u201che got the hang of it,\u201d adding that Reeves is \u201ca lovely man and a good-hearted guy, so I don\u2019t wanna throw him under the bus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"O\u2019Donnell<\/p>\n

O\u2019Donnell hosted over 1,000 episodes of her eponymous talk show (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\"Reeves<\/p>\n

Reeves was criticized for not speaking much on O\u2019Donnell\u2019s show (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

As far as who her favorite guest on the show was, it was \u201cprobably\u201d Barbra Streisand<\/a>, but the \u201cbest guest to have on\u201d was Martin Short<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause you come out and say, \u2018How you doing, Marty?\u2019 and it\u2019s over for you,\u201d she said. \u201cHe stands up and he goes, \u2018I\u2019m here!\u2019 He was the funniest and the nicest guy, so I would say Marty Short was definitely one of the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comedian\u2019s comments on her talk show guests came a few days after Elisabeth Hasselbeck spoke about her on-air tussle with O\u2019Donnell<\/a> while the two were panelists on The View over 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

The pair infamously got into a shouting match during a May 2007 episode of the ABC daytime talk show, with O\u2019Donnell accusing Hasselbeck of not defending her against right-wing media ire over critical comments about the Iraq war.<\/p>\n

During a recent appearance on the Australian radio show Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel, O\u2019Donnell reignited earlier claims that their feud was a \u201csetup\u201d by producers.<\/p>\n

Hasselbeck issued a fiery, emotional response in a series of since-expired clips posted to her Instagram Story, demanding the 63-year-old A League of Their Own actor \u201cjust stop\u201d and \u201cbe free.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI really hope that you can be released from whatever this is that\u2019s causing you to cause such harm,\u201d the Survivor alum, 48, said, per Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201cAnd it can just be so much more free, Rosie, if you can just stop. Stop the madness, stop the lying and just be free. And even maybe if you don\u2019t stop, I still forgive you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosie O\u2019Donnell has looked back on her eponymous talk show, sharing insights on her favorite and least favorite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,15894,11389,105367,105366,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-218373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-keanu-reeves","12":"tag-rosie-odonnell","13":"tag-sam-pang-tonight","14":"tag-talk-show","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}