Larry King Bashes Piers Morgan: 'Show Is a Lot About Him as Much as the Guests'

Former CNN anchor Larry King took a shot at replacement Piers Morgan Thursday saying that his show "is a lot about him as much as the guests."

Rather comically, King with a straight face told HuffPost Live, "I never gave opinions" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

MARC LAMONT HILL, HOST: What do you think of Piers Morgan these days?

LARRY KING: I watch him occasionally. He’s very different from me. I never gave opinions. Piers gives his opinions. The show is a lot about him as much as the guests. I used to make the guests the star of the show…He’s so different from me, it’s very hard to compare styles I think. I just, I don’t work that way.

HILL: Do you think there’s any danger in having long-term success making the host the center of the show as opposed to the guests the way you did?

KING: Well, I did, a lot about today’s shows – not just Piers, a lot of shows - they make it about the host and the guest becomes a prop to the host, and I never liked that. You know, I think the guest counts. You could still ask good questions. You could ask hard questions. You could ask probing questions. But it’s not about you. If you turn on a show, any show, and if half the time the host is talking, something’s wrong.