Steve Harvey Show in Chicago

You may wonder why I am writing about his show here. It’s because we tried to get him to pay attention to White Sugar, Brown Sugar.

You may wonder why I write about Steve Harvey and his show on this page. It’s that we tried and are still trying to get him to notice White Sugar, Brown Sugar, believing this book contains so many of his ideals and things he finds important.

Steve Harvey Show. What taping is like. Maria had gotten tickets for this, and then spent much time this week responding to their queries about whether she wanted to ask Steve about something, even sending them a video, etc. Up until the day before, they indicated she’d be one of the questioners, but then they said no. I think the issue was she wanted to talk about marketing my book, and they hadn’t vetted the book. And they wanted people who asked more light, entertaining things, like how to resolve their sex or love lives. But then we were among a few people called into the studio first, and they put me right on an aisle. I wondered the whole time if something embarrassing was going to happen. In all their questions to her, they had learned that I was her English teacher when she first came to the U.S., at U.F., and they made it seem like Steve would just love to make an issue of that.

They did two tapings, first Paula Deen, and then Theresa Caputo. He asked Paula Deen to be on the show so she could talk about how she’s getting past the issues that arose last year over that word that she confessed using when she was young. He said he would probably take some flack from some haters for having her on the show, but he didn’t want to judge. She brought her two sons. He asked her a lot of questions. They had fun together. She was gracious. He was gracious. They even danced together off camera. And she rubbed his ass. IT was hysterical. It turns out that he has created a program for young boys who may be interested in cooking to go to Savannah and work with her. And she has a foundation for young women in trouble. Then they did a food segment, and she gave the audience corn bread and a recipe book. It was very positive.

Then the Long Island Medium, Theresa Caputo talked to audience members who’d lost loved ones about the contacts they receive from the other side, and why it’s all positive. It was pretty interesting.

So we didn’t participate in the show other than having to smile, laugh, clap, and sit up straight for hours. But with the two long interviews, and the Long Island Medium talking to people about their dead family members, and another of a couple who were having sex issues, and a sex therapist to help them, the Questions to Steve weren’t that long anyway.

Then they had the opening. We kept having to pretend we hadn’t seen him yet. And then the closing. He brought his youngest daughter out to talk about how she just won a significant equestrian award. She’s beautiful, and it showed another side of Steve.

He explained things to the audience. He’s a nice man, a religious man, (even though he uses a lot of bad language), and street language and grammar.

We were required to be in the building at 8 a.m. and weren’t free until 1 p..m

I guess we’ll find out when the shows air so see if we actually show up, smiling and looking like dorks. — at Steve Harvey Talk Show.