Daytime TV talk shows are designed to distract.

To be fair,The Viewseems more strident by design.

Our numbers are up too!

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Youre too smart to be that confused!

(I referred to her as Blonde No.

2 in my notes for days before finally learning her name.)

Celebrity gossip comes up during Hot Topics on occasion, much to theViewco-hosts chagrin.

before throwing to commercial.

Even whenThe Talktackles politics, Chen and her co-hosts make a run at keep it light.

He has to live with his actions.

So which show serves as a better distraction from our inevitable return to dust?