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2	[[caption-width-right:350:"Never before have two chairs and a potted plant so transformed the wrestling ring!"]]
3	This is very frequent in ProfessionalWrestling. Say Promotion A doesn't have enough actual wrestling to fill the entire show, what do they do to [[{{Padding}} fill out the time]]? Give some wrestler, often a {{Heel}} or a smart-mouthed {{Face}}, his own TalkShow, of course. The talk show isn't really a talk show as much as it is a few armchairs, or a couch, a rug and a coffee table plunked in the ring and the host simply runs his mouth.
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5	The thing about these talk shows is that they seem to always end violently. Usually the host calls out a wrestler and [[FisticuffProvokingComment proceeds to either insult the wrestler directly or brag his ass off while at the same time insulting the guest]]. At this point, the guest's finishing move is often applied to the host's face. Sometimes, however, the guest decides to say something to the host and then, inexplicably, take his eye off of the host. Which is frequently followed by the host taking the guest's head off.
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7	In short, regardless of the wrestlers involved, who's hosting, who's the guest, and the specifics of who is beating on whom, they always end in violence.
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9	Was popular in the early 90s, when just about every heel in {{Wrestling/WWE}} got one. It made a resurgence amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when there was a need to make segments with fewer talents. With several stars who could put on one of these ([[Wrestling/TheMiz The Dirt]] [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Sheet]], [[Wrestling/MontelVontaviousPorter VIP Lounge]], [[Wrestling/KevinOwens The KO Show]], [[Wrestling/NikkiCross A Moment]] [[Wrestling/AlexaBliss of Bliss]]), it wouldn't be impossible to see multiple on one TV episode.
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11	Not to be confused with ''[[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]]'', ''[[Series/TheJeremyKyleShow Jeremy Kyle]]'', and their ilk. Any wrestling there is only incidental.
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13	!!Examples:
14	* Piper's Pit, hosted by [[Wrestling/RoddyPiper "Rowdy" Roddy Piper]], was the TropeCodifier in the 1980s and included incidents such as Piper cracking Jimmy Snuka over the head with a coconut, beating up a jobber named Frankie Williams, spraying Morton Downey Jr. with a fire extinguisher, and himself getting Super Kicked by Wrestling/ShawnMichaels.
15	* In an episode of Wrestling/ChrisJericho's show, The Highlight Reel, Wrestling/JeffHardy responded to Jericho's bragging by hitting him with a Twist of Fate. Strangely enough, for all the ridiculous lampshading it gets, the "Obscenely Expensive Jeritron 5000" had yet to be used in a violent confrontation -- until the final edition, where Jericho committed a FaceHeelTurn and sent Wrestling/ShawnMichaels through it, paralleling a years ago scene where Michaels' singles career took off after he basically did this (with a barbershop window) to Wrestling/MartyJannetty.
16	** Speaking of, that would be [[Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's]] show, The Barber Shop. Its most famous moment was the segment where Wrestling/ShawnMichaels turned heel (by launching Marty Jannetty through the [[SoftGlass glass door]]), and it is this segment that began Michaels' run to the superstardom stratosphere.
17	** Two months after the Rockers' break-up, the final episode of the Barber Shop involved Sid Justice smashing up the Barber Shop set with a steel chair as his way of sending a message to Hulk Hogan.
18	* [[Wrestling/JakeRoberts Jake "The Snake" Roberts]] hosted The Snake Pit, where the most famous segment was the Honky Tonk Man smashing Roberts over the back after Roberts told Honky that he was not interested in his music. (Interestingly, Wrestling/AndreTheGiant was once a visitor to the Snake Pit, and never showed any fear of snakes.)
19	** The incident with Honkytonk Man is notable because Roberts was legitimately injured; instead of using a cheap guitar designed to smash apart on impact, Honky used a real guitar, and the only thing that smashed apart were several vertebrae in Roberts' neck, something that he never fully recovered from.
20	* In 1986, Wrestling/AdrianAdonis began using an effeminate "cross-dresser" gimmick and began hosting a segment called "The Flower Shop." The violence came when Roddy Piper came to shut the Flower Shop down. After a week of threats against one another, both The Flower Shop and Piper's Pit sets were set up ... and Adonis got a temporary victory by (with the help of Wrestling/DonMuraco and Bob Orton) destroying Piper.
21	** A week later, Piper got his revenge by taking his fists (and a bat) ''to the "Flower Shop" set''!
22	* You have The Brother Love Show, hosted by Bruce Prichard's character of Brother Love, a parody of televangelists. Brother Love was known for being well versed with the heels, and often let them on his show to speak what they wanted to. The segment ended when the Ultimate Warrior tore the set apart and beat Brother Love up.
23	* A show hosted by Wrestling/{{Edge\|Wrestler}} called The Cutting Edge, ended with his guest, [[{{Wrestling/Batista}} Batista]], Power Bombing him in response to Edge taunting him by arranging to have the lights go off in the arena, as if Wrestling/TheUndertaker were entering, even though he wasn't. A later episode saw another disastrous moment as Wrestling/SethRollins forced the reinstatement of Wrestling/TheAuthority after threatening to murder Edge.
24	* Carlito's Cabana, hosted by Wrestling/CarlitoColon & later his brother Primo Colón to become an example of a Talk Show With Fists hosted by a TagTeam [[WrestlingFamily family]].
25	* Wrestling/{{M\|ontel Vontavious Porter}}VP's VIP Lounge. Incidentally, MVP would later be "revealed" to have a "brother" named Victor...
26	* Wrestling/{{Christian}}'s The Peep Show
27	* [[Wrestling/BrucePrichard The Brother Love Show]]
28	* Mortician Wrestling/PaulBearer's Funeral Parlor
29	* A Flair For The Gold (Wrestling/RicFlair)
30	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Parodied in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE183YesWrestling yes, wrestling]], where Strong Bad sets up one of these apparently for the sole purpose of hitting Homestar with a folding chair.
31	-->'''Strong Bad''': Never before had two chairs and a potted plant so transformed the wrestling ring.
32	* The Abraham Washington Show on WWE's version of ECW, which has a late-night talk show aesthetic. Notable for having Tony Atlas in the [[Creator/JohnnyCarson Ed McMahon]] position (and laugh), and for putting an APPLAUSE sign on the [=TitanTron=] when Abe gets introduced.
33	* Wrestling/ShawnMichaels had The Heartbreak Hotel.
34	* Wrestling/TerryFunk had Funk's Grill in Wrestling/{{WCW}}.
35	* [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul E. Dangerously]] had the Danger Zone in WCW and Wrestling/{{ECW}}.
36	* [[Wrestling/TheMiz Miz TV]] by, um, Alex Riley? The Miz's segment's name is a slight parody off of MTV where he first became famous, but during the late PG era and into the "New Era", [=MizTV=] became WWE's go-to segment for most angles, as well as celebrity guests. Incidentally, [=MizTV=] was the first Talk Show to air after Piper's passing in 2015, and he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwdGSHLIXxk took time]] to credit all of the various shows through the years to Piper's Pit.
37	* Wrestling/BeulahMcGillicutty had [[{{Double Entendre}} "Beulah's Box"]] in ECW.
38	* ''[[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]] Nightcap'', a vehicle for Wrestling/EricBischoff's feud with Jay Leno.
39	* The Street corner, hosted by Wrestling/ExoticAdrianStreet, of course
40	* [[Wrestling/HerbAbramsUWF Herb Abrams' UWF]] had Wrestling/{{Captain Lou\| Albano}}'s Corner
41	* The Wrestling/JerryLawler Show used to be a thing before he went to the WWF, where he started doing "The King's Court"
42	* Wrestling/DustyRhodes had the Dew Drop Inn
43	* [[Wrestling/JesseVentura Jesse "The Body" Ventura]]'s Body shop. Later, Sweet And Sour Wrestling/LarrySweeney's Sweet Shop.
44	* Averted by the Wrestling/{{Aksana}} show, which once led into a match but was free of fistfights while in progress.
45	* [[Wrestling/DeanAmbrose The Ambrose Asylum]].
46	* [[Wrestling/JessicaKresa ODB]] had "Talkin' Trash With ODB" in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]].
47	* A Moment of Bliss, hosted by Wrestling/AlexaBliss and[Wrestling/NikkiCross, WWE's first talk show with fists with a female presenter on the main roster.
48	* The [[Wrestling/KevinOwens Kevin Owens Show]] is an interesting case, as it's partially based on his pre-WWE Kevin Steen show.
49	* Wrestling/BrittBaker got to host The Waiting Room with her assistant Reba, which became a regular feature on ''[[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW Dark]]'' for a while.
50	* Wrestling/{{Bayley}}'s "Ding Dong, Hello!", where wrestlers must always enter the interview using the door.

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