bring back the king of queens. i said, lea, no comment. you don t get involved in this. what s your personal view of charlie? i have no comment on it. no view of him? i do but i have no view on the show about it. aren t you allowed to talk about it? no? i just think it would be it wouldn t be right for any of us to comment about it. i think it s don t be ridiculous! i m not being ridiculous. it s the biggest story in town. not to us. we haven t talked about it not once. none of you talked about charlie sheen? we have not spoken about him on the show not once. because he s a cbs star. is he? who? who? who? sharon s famous for going who? you have talked about him. we have on america s got talent last week. you start. i look at it from a mother. if that was my son yeah. that was my husband. i know the damage that that
relatively normal. he was funny. she was sparky. he was entertaining, confrontal, defiant. in many ways like his character in the show. where s the damage to the show here from charlie s behavior offscreen? well, the damage to the show is can t produce a show. if you look at the ten-page letter or 11-page letter that warner brothers sent to charlie s attorneys, you ll see that there s a lot of range of incidents, 2009 in aspen, the plaza hotel and it s ka lated and escalated and started to go after the producers. so vicious. i think warner s left with no other possibilities, piers. janice, from a trade magazine s point of view, hollywood reporter, obviously, you have covered many stories like this over the year. right. where does it rank charlie? seems to me one of the kind of all-time confrontations. celebrity flame-outs, britney
is very smart here getting the actor who s damaged goods for a lesser price pennies on the dollar and put them on his relatively small network. it s certainly a win for him. yeah, somebody s always going to scoop up the dregs in hollywood. steve, do you agree with that? do you think that s charlie s still bankable? with all due respect to your wonderful career and reality television, piers, that s really the only thing that s left. for charlie sheen right now. to put him on a scripted show or a movie is going to be very difficult because who is going to insure him in he s not dependable. that was really the key to charlie sheen s surviving as long as he did on two and a half men. why does the network look the other way? he had the problems because he was showing up every day and doing his job and create still bringing in viewers. clearly, something happened. the last couple of months. his condition was deteriorating.
it s also because you want to get back to your wife and family. it s all it s about. i do very well as a standup, but when you pay me a check, you re not paying me to do my show. you re paying me to leave my house, get on an airplane, maybe stay in a hotel and come back. the moment that somebody says ladies and gentleman, howie mandel, that s free. i can t believe you re paying me for something i ve gotten in trouble for my whole life. i can t believe i m getting paid to work with you. i know, it s i thank my lucky stars every day, the fact that i get to irritate you. you know that my real drive this year is to drive you over the edge? i love to irritate how do you torture piers. who got you on twitter? you did. i did. and how many you have many more, because you have a show, and right now i can see it says @piersmorgan. what about @howieandmandel.
they don t care that charlie sheen is arrested for attacking his wife and, you know, once shot kelly preston and the crazy behavior and been in rehab twice or however many times. they don t care. they like the show. here s the thing. i suppose treating this from a business point of view and everything else. the final part of the statement, mr. sheen went from a factor that an individual whose conduct resulted in the hospitalization, his inability to work at all for a period and the rapid erosion of the cooperative process necessary to produce the show. the behavior intoller to believe the production of a tv show. it is interesting. we talked to marty singer right before i came on air here at the hollywood reporter and tell s they re going to sue and fight this hard because they feel warner brothers set a precedent before, he s been arrested, pled guilty to a felony and during that same time, this was when he attacked his wife in aspen in 2009 that warner brothers continued the nego