Sherri Shepherd is a hustler. Her latest foray in the world of TV is hosting The Newlywed Game. Her plans are to make this version of the show edgier than some of her predecessors, particularly original host Bob Eubanks, who coined the phrase “making whoopee” in the late 60s, as a euphemism for sex.

Today, Shepherd says she is going to pry into the newlyweds’ sex lives as much as she can and she isn’t holding back.

“This version of The Newlywed Game is much edgier than the original, so I ask couples all kinds of embarrassing questions. But we still use Bob’s ‘making whoopee’ term because it’s classic and just fits with the show. I relish using it; It gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling,” Shepherd told AOL News. “It’s extra weird for me though, because every time I say ‘making whoopee,’ I think of my friend, Whoopi Goldberg. I work with her every day [on The View], so I’m always thinking about Whoopi!” she added.

Shepherd also said that hosting The Newlywed Game has always been a secret dream of hers because as a child. She mentioned that she watched Eubanks’ original version with her grandmother but added that the new version “ain’t your grandmother’s Newlywed Game.”

What do you think? Will she do a good job?

Shepherd’s run begins on Nov. 1 at 6 p.m. on the Game Show Network.

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Sherri Shepherd has been named the new host of Game Show Network’s The Newlywed Game.

“I am beyond thrilled,” the Emmy-winning co-host  of The View told Black Voices. “The Newlywed Game is one of my favorite game shows and I have loved it since Bob Eubanks was the host.”

The comedienne will begin her new gig when the re-launched version of The Newlywed Game returns for its fourth season this November.

“I’m greatly honored that they thought my sense of humor would go well with the show. I can’t wait to interact with the couples and just have a good time,” she said.

Singer Carnie Wilson hosted the first three seasons of the show, but she was fired earlier this year according to BV. Shepherd recently wrapped production on a starring role in the movi, One for the Money and she begins taping the new season of The Newlywed Game in New York City in September. So it looks like she’ll still be going strong on The View.

It’s ironic that she’s so vocal about her divorce and often uses it as a source of her comedy, yet she’s going to host a newlywed game show. Those sneaky producers, they sure have a good sense of humor! But hopefully Shepherd won’t lay those divorce jokes on too thick. That would be awkward.

The Newlywed Game will premiere on Monday, Nov. 1 at 6:00pm EST.

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During the June 22^nd episode of The View, Sherri Shepherd along with D.L. Hughley, blamed the increasing HIV rates among heterosexual black women on closeted black men.

Hughley said, “When you look at the prevalence of HIV in the African American community, it’s primarily young women who are getting it from men who are on the down low.”

Sherri added, “It’s so big in the black community with women because they’re having sex with men who have been having sex with men.”

This, of course, is a theory that’s been dispelled countless times since the “Down Low” phenomenon initially made its way onto the national scene.

Needless to say, a lot of people are upset with two comedians regurgitating falsehoods about such an important issue on such a highly popular talk show.

The gay media watch group, GLAAD, took out an ad in Variety condemning that episode and demanding that ABC and The View correct themselves.

The ad, also endorsed by the Black AIDS Institute and the National Black Justice Coalition, reads as follows:

“The Centers for Disease Control has publicly disproven this myth. And since June 22, thousands of people have written to ABC, asking that The View provide correct information to viewers. Unfortunately, those requests have been greeted with silence from both ABC and The View.”

I respect freedom of speech, but when you’re misinformed and spreading falsehoods, this is what happening next.

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I’m convinced that LL Cool J is a vampire. He looks exactly how he did when he first came out in the early 80s, but with muscles. He gets better with age and he’s sharing his secrets with the world. He went on The View yesterday, to promote his book entitled, LL Cool J’s Platinum 360 Diet and Lifestyle: A Full-Circle Guide to Developing Your Mind, Body, and Soul. It’s all you need to know if you want to look and feel as good as he does.

He tested some of his skills out on the ladies—literally. Just watch:

Are you swooning too? Yeah, I thought so. I guess now we can add another reason to the long list of why ladies love him.

Pre-nominations for this year’s 37th Annual Daytime Emmys are in and some of your favorite talk shows and soap operas are scoring. General Hospital leads the pack with 18 nods while The Young and the Restless got 16. Both will vie for outstanding drama series with The Bold and the Beautiful and All My Children, which received 11 and 10 nominations, respectively.

Talk shows in the running include The Ellen DeGeneres Show with eight nominations, The View with five and The Oprah Winfrey Show with four. Even though The View scored multiple nominations, each one is for Outstanding Talk Show Host so technically it’s not the show, it’s the women.

I don’t watch soap operas (or “stories”) but I have my money on The View, especially with dynamic personalities like Whoopi Goldberg (my favorite), Joy Behar and Sherri Shepherd (who is sometimes too over the top). If they don’t win, something is wrong.

The Emmys is scheduled to air on CBS on June 27, live from Vegas.

There’s a long list of nominees that I didn’t even begin to touch. Who did I leave out? Are you satisfied the nominations thus far?

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The Jersey Shore kids visited The View to talk about what has been going on with them since wrapping season one. They were greeted cordially by most of the women but Whoopi and especially Joy Behar were disturbed. Whoopi was nice to them but the Mad Hatter-style hat that she wore—which you will see in the video below—symbolizes how crazy she thinks the phenomenon of being famous for nothing is. She often describes reality TV phenomenon as being in the rabbit hole and out of touch with reality because people don’t even have to do anything anymore to be famous (and this is why I love Whoopi), therefore, the hat was her silent but symbolic protest. On the contrary, Elisabeth Hasselbeck supported by wearing a shirt that read “Everybody Heart’s The Situation,” and Sherri Shepherd got her hair done in Snooki’s signature bouffant. However, Joy Behar was not having it.

Behar is Italian American and like a lot of older Italian Americans, who have been boycotting the show, she is not happy that the Jersey Shore kids call themselves “Guidos” and “Guidettes” and feels that they portray negative stereotypes. You could see how annoyed she was in her body language and hear it in her voice. She was snippy and even called Snooki out about not being Italian. In the video below at about 1:35, Behar blurted out, “I’d like to point out that Snooki is not even Italian.”

Awkward pause…

Snooki replied saying that she was Sicilian and Chilean as if she didn’t realize that Sicily was part of Italy. Behar snapped back, “Then that makes you Italian.”

Finally, Snooki added, “But I’m more Chilean than Italian.” That sounds to me like when Black people try to claim they “got Indian in their family,” but those Indian roots of which they speak stem back to a great grandparent five generations removed but I digress. J-Woww, who is Spanish-Irish, was the one who revealed that information about Snooki. The other cast members claim to be 100% Italian. But anyway, their visit was entertaining. Check it out:

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Comedienne Sherri Shepherd has built a career based on her failed marriage, but ex husband Jeff Tarpley is not laughing and wants her to stop using their divorce as public fodder for the sake of their four-year-old son.

Tarpley wrote a letter to RadarOnline.com pointing out Shepherd’s habit of highlighting his infidelity and their breakup while hosting The View, doing standup, giving interviews, and on her Lifetime show Sherri. Here’s an excerpt from the letter:

Sherri Shepherd, to whom I was married for 8 years and have an amazing son with, has openly discussed and distorted details of our marriage for close to six years following our break-up. To this very day, my name is consistently dragged through the mud at her every opportunity. Sherri, don’t you think it’s time to move on?

“I’ve held my head high and kept silent as she continues to give interview after interview re-living the hardship she endured during the end of our marriage, while consistently airing our dirty laundry on The View. Though I believe the high road is typically the best course of action, it’s time that I take the opportunity to say, ‘Enough is enough!’

“Mistakes have been made, but they have not been one-sided, as the public is consistently led to believe. Though Sherri claims to be transparent, what good is transparency when you’re not taking ownership of your own faults? And while some might find her comments entertaining, to me and my loved ones they’re hurtful, misguided and spiteful. No matter how much she says she’s reached a place of forgiveness, her comments and actions clearly do not demonstrate this”…

“Jeffrey will soon be socializing and interacting with other children, and eventually he will be able to search the Internet, where he’ll find article after article and countless video clips of his mom exacting a public revenge against his dad. Jeffrey does not deserve to grow up knowing that his mom used her notoriety to paint an inaccurate picture of his dad for the world to see. If not for me, it’s time to move on for the sake of our son.”

Tarpley also talks about how being the butt of Shepherd’s jokes is hurting his career.

I hate to say this, but Sherri Shepherd wins. She built most of her success by parodying her failed marriage so she’s not going to stop any time soon. I don’t know either party involved but I don’t feel bad for the husband. Isn’t making a public rebuttal just as bad for their son? He should have stayed quiet or at least talked to Sherri in private. I don’t think Shepherd is 100% innocent in this situation but this only makes him look more guilty. You know how when folks do something messed up and get exposed they get extra defensive because they know they’re wrong? That’s what this looks like.

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The fact that we’re in the age of Obama signifies that the U.S. has come far in terms of race perception and relations. Even better is the fact that Disney, in 80 years of their existence, finally saw fit to give us a Black princess named Tiana. They have no idea how much of a boost in self-esteem they’re giving little Black girls but also the wonderful lesson they’re teaching everyone else (if they choose to be open). The View’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck recently got a dose of this reality thanks to her daughter’s affinity for the Tiana doll.

Hasselbeck talked about the fact that her daughter’s favorite doll at the moment is Tiana, on The View yesterday. She said her daughter plays with the doll’s hair, sleeps with it and carries it around everywhere she goes. It’s nice that Hasselbeck and other non-Black parents like her don’t make a big deal out of it because essentially, children don’t see color—but she admitted that she got funny looks one day when she and her daughter plus Tiana ran errands in New York City.

Hasselbeck said that some of the looks she got were pleasant and approving, but every now and then she got looks that were reproachful. She expressed that maybe she was thinking too hard about it but Whoopi Goldberg confirmed that she probably wasn’t (this is why I love Whoopi). Whoopi G. and also Sherri Shepherd told Hasselbeck in a nice way, “Welcome to our world.” Thanks goodness for the truth. As a Black woman, I’ve gotten looks that made me think twice about why someone may have been making a certain face at me that I thought was negative, and even though you want to think you might be overreacting, the look often comes with a certain vibe that Whoopi actually talked about, that let’s you know that it’s not in your head. This goes for anyone living not just in the country, but the world. We are all affected by race, especially people of color. I’m glad Hasselbeck went through what she experienced and wasn’t afraid to talk about it because now at least her eyes are open to the fact that we still have a lot of work to do. Hopefully more parents like her won’t think twice about getting their child a Black doll so that the discussion can continue.

Check out the actual conversation on The View’s website via ABC (from the Nov 19 show).

This is premiere week for Sherri Shepherd. In case you’ve been living on Mars, The View’s co-host got her own sitcom based on her life (her husband cheats, gets a woman pregnant and she’s forced back on the dating scene). There’s been a buzz about it for months, but the actress/comedienne finally got to show and prove Monday night, and will continue to do so with sneak peeks all week.

When I first heard about Sherri, I wasn’t sure what to make of it because the advertisements made it seem like it was all about her. It is, in a sense, but someone who didn’t do their research wouldn’t know that there is a supporting cast of actors (like Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tammy Townsend and Brandon Khalil). However, it’s game time so people who didn’t watch Monday night’s premiere (or at least catch sneak peek’s of new episodes during the week thus far) want to know if she delivered. So far, the show has promise. I’ve created a list of pros and cons.

Pros:
1. Sherri isn’t a one-woman show. The supporting cast of characters help to carry the show and drive punchlines, adding tremendously to the comedic element.

2. Sherri Shephered reminds you that she is actually an actress. She goes beyond signature witty remarks and gets her thespian on. You could hear the conflict, pain and disappointment in her voice when she realizes that the woman who wrecked her home wasn’t necessarily a monster, but a young woman who made a terrible mistake.

3. Sherri reminds us that she is human. She is a woman of faith who like any other woman, runs the gamut of emotions in a traumatic period in her life. There was a funny scene where her prayer circle ended with a “Nope, he’s still got to die,” a realization about her trifling ex-husband, which was laugh out-loud-funny.

Cons:
1. It’s cliche. Sherri’s ex-husband cheated on her with a White woman (gasp). There was even a scene where she was trying to drain the joint bank account shared by and her soon-to-be-ex-husband, but the teller won’t allow her to because his permission is needed. Once the teller, a Black woman, is informed that Sherri’s ex knocked up a White woman, the account is flushed within minutes. That was a funny moment but the whole Black-woman-scorned-by-Black-man-who-cheated-with-a-white-temptress is played out.

2. Punchlines ad nauseam. There were times where the attempted jokes kept coming to the point where they missed. The writers need to ease up a bit.

Other than that, I wasn’t mad at Sherri and will tune in next week. You can catch sneak peek episodes all this week on Lifetime at 7pm, then tune in weekly on Tuesdays at 10pm starting October 13.

I love Sherri Shepherd.

I don’t care about her slight verbal fumbles on the show (the world is not flat, Sherri) – she is funny and seems to have such a sweet spirit.

Speaking of something sweet, Sherri is on a mission to cut that along with cheeseburgers, fries, onion rings, and milk shakes out of her diet in an effort to slim down to fit into a bikini.

Already Sherri has learned one valuable lesson: If you’re going to cheat on your diet, keep your business off the internet.

A while back Sherri said on the show:

“This weekend, I was out in L.A., and I’m tweeting about [how] I had fried calamari and I had some buffalo wings and I just went totally off my diet. And it was great! I did not know that my nutritional coach and my trainer follow me.”

Bless her heart.

Honestly, when I think of the women on The View, I’m not fantasizing about any of them in bikinis. But you know what? Sherri seems to be doing this for health reasons versus a cry for attention (think that “Kiss my fat a—” episode of The Tyra Banks Show) so I’m all for it.

Besides, it’s good to see her go the natural route to weight loss versus the alternatives (starvation, fingers down her throat, or surgery).

However, while I cheer Sherri on she could’ve kept this fun fact about her hairy package to herself:

E! News Now – Sherri Shepherd’s Hairy Dilemma

When they say “take a little time to enjoy The View,” the view of Chewbacca crotch isn’t what I had in mind.

Are you joining Sherri in her efforts to get bodied for the beach?