What happened to Dick Clark?

About 4 or so years ago.

He did have a stroke.

He’s busy thinking of 2009 slogans

That was a little hard to watch. They should let him off the hook. (I did my 20 minutes of TV at midnight and that was all I could stand.) Gawd, it’s hard to believe he is still alive. I remember my teenage sister watching him on American Bandstand after school in the early sixties.

I hope it’s a case where he is insisting to go on the air himself.

It’s terribly morbid otherwise.

I had to wonder if the people who watch Dick Clark are really interested in the Jonas Brothers for a second year in a row?

Yes, it surely is sad to see Dick Clark in his present condition. I think he wants to do it so bad because New Year’s Eve was always his baby. I was hoping he’d recover better than he has, but sadly, it looks like this is it.

Did he look that bad? He was always the perpetual teenager. But Father Time waits for no-one.

After the strokes, yes, he’s looked like that. It must have affected one side of his face. That’s why he can’t talk clearly, I’m sure. I noticed his right hand is kind of clutched. The new TV Guide I got yesterday says he’s either in a wheelchair or using a walker. Sure is sad to see.

he was always a tradition on the new year’s eve show, and it was always amazing that every year he looked exactly the same. he must have had tons of plastic surgery way back when. his hair was brown, his face had no wrinkles.

When I first started watching him last night, my first thought was that it was time for him to step down. But the more I watched him, I thought we should be celebrating his ability and courage to come back from the stroke and do New Year’s Eve. The majority of us are, after all, temporarily enabled, and will eventually become disabled in one way or another. Why should television careers end because of a disability?

We are so used to every person we see on TV being so perfect and beautiful, it is rare to see someone who is actually real—having obviously fought back from a stroke. My guess is that he insisted continuing to be the host—against the wishes of others who would know that his imperfections would not be hidden from the audience. It wasn’t beautiful, but it was a courageous performance.

It just looked like it was so hard for him. I felt sorry for him. But maybe he truly wanted to do it.

I didn’t even know that he was still doing New Years Eve or I would have watched. It was always a tradition for us growing up, I miss those days.