y are both female talk show hosts in their thirties. Both of these women performed in live plays or appeared in many movies before they became talk show hosts. With so many similarities I found it shocking that the shows were so different.
             Ricki Lake is always formatted around one main subject that is definitely not aimed towards children. Ricki invites many different guests that have personal insight pertained to the subject. Her audience plays a huge part in the show by asking multiple questions or making personal comments. Appearing in almost every show is a "surprise" guest that always has to come out and make some sort of a scene. There are always mixed emotions and bad feelings between the guests. I was constantly waiting for a fight to brake out and I felt as if the audience only added to the fire. Some of the things that happened on the show seemed unreal. A majority of the characters were within my age group, in their late teens and early twenties, and I still couldn't relate to anything that was happening in their life. At times I was lost in the show because I basically couldn't understand the language. There were other times when I found humor in the show, laughing at the situations these people had gotten themselves into.
             The Rosie O'Donnel Show is a completely different story. Rosie sits up at a desk and invites her guests to sit up next to her. She usually has a single guest at a time unless she has a family or two co-stars together. Many of her guests are famous and are on the show promoting a new album or movie that is about to be released. Her guests often perform for the audience, which takes up a lot of the talking time. When they aren't performing, Rosie asks them a few common questions as if she was making up time lost with an old friend. The audience never asks questions but one lucky member introduces the guests that will be appearing on the show that day. He...