Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action | show | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

This jaw-dropping documentary goes behind the scenes of America's most controversial talk show to expose its biggest sca | dHNfMFZiTXJXZXBwc0k

Transcript

00:00After this, I'm never talking about this show ever again.

00:03Jerry Springer!

00:07I don't think anybody knew how crazy this show was going to be.

00:11I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize for everything I've ever done.

00:15I have ruined the culture.

00:19At the beginning of 1992, Jerry Springer was coming to Chicago to launch a talk show.

00:26We were this little band of crazy people just trying to survive the week.

00:31All I had to do was convince him, let's make it wild.

00:35Variety show in a weekly magazine, compare the fights to pro wrestling.

00:39Teeth were knocked out.

00:40It really was the modern version of the Roman Coliseum.

00:44Springer's the first talk show host ever to knock Oprah Winfrey off her throne as the queen of daytime talk.

00:50He became a cultural icon.

00:53I want the show to demonstrate outrageous sincerity.

00:58The bigger that show got, it raised questions about what really went on backstage.

01:06The producers were coaching us on what to say and how to act.

01:10They weren't interested in what kind of impact it was going to have on you.

01:16I don't think my mother had any idea what she was walking into.

01:20Some stories went too far.

01:25The man who married his horse and wants to come on the show.

01:29This kind of trash television will not be towered.

01:31I just wish they could go back and say to her, don't do it.

01:36This was the most vile and grotesque freak show that's ever been on television.

01:42We just started pushing the needle towards red.

01:45Let's see how far we can push it.

01:50I would hope that you would feel some sense of responsibility.

01:54It's a television show. It's a television show. We will all survive it.