The best in-ring talk show in the WWE ever?

[Mack_Swagger]

Back in the days of the the WWF, "Hot Rod Rowdy" Roddy Piper hosted the infamous in-ring talk show "Piper's Pit". With some of the most infamous moments in WWF history at that point. But after Piper's pit, which future WWE superstar had the best in-ring talk show? Let's take a look back at some...

-Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel
-Edge's Cutting Edge
-Christian's Peep Show
-Miz's MizTV
-MVP's VIP Lounge
-Carlito's Cabana
-Matt Striker's Classroom

AW's talk show on the old ECW brand doesn't count, he wasn't even a wrestler. But in your own opinion's, which is/was the best in-ring talk show ever?

[Nate]

Piper's Pit was leagues above any of the others. I guess the only one even slightly above garbage was the Highlight Reel seeing as something interesting did actually happen once in a while. The other ones were wastes of time.

[Raito]

2 Very big ones that fill that gap have been missed.

Paul Bearers Funeral Parlour

HBK's Heartbreak Hotel.

Both of these had more eps, and built more stories that all of the ones listed, spare maybe the highlight reel.

[Judah's Lion]

Piper's Pit was definitely amazing and trail-blazing.

as far as other interview segment shows since then... i always appreciated how they gave guys with good mic skills a chance to talk. Christian's Peep Show, Edge's Cutting Edge, Carlito's Cabana, MVP's VIP Lounge and even Dude Love's Love Shack.

my only issue with the those segments is that hardly anything ever happened on any of those. in fact, i can only remember a handful of different segments from all of them combined. they were helpful and useful in giving those guys something to do and a chance to show off their work on the stick, but not much happened ever.

as for the shows i liked besides Piper's Pit? probably Brutus "the Barber" Beefcake's Barber Shop. HBK throwing Jannetty thru the window stands as a memory i'll never forget and arguably launched the career of HBK, so props there. also, i even liked when Jake "the Snake" Roberts revealed his new python, Lucifer, on the Barbershop after Earthquake had kayfabe killed Damien. and speaking of Jake...

Jake "the Snake" Roberts' Snake Pit was also pretty amazing. the bit i remember most from there is Honky Tonk Man hitting Jake with the guitar setting up and leading to their feud at Mania 3.

great thread idea.

[Jaffa]

Pipers pit as an all time one for sure I mean the coconut incident with superfly is down in the annals of WWE history. In more recent time I would have to say the highlight reel after all it did provide us with the best feud of 2008 Jericho vs Michaels.

[Dagger Dias]

There have been many talk show segments in the WWE over the years. Piper's Pit set the standard for all the segments that would follow in more recent years. Part of how enjoyable the talk show segments are depend on which wrestler(s) are involved with it. For example I liked Christian's Peep Show but disliked Carlito's Cabana. I like Christian as a wrestler and I hated Carlito. If you like/dislike a wrestler then chances are you'll like/dislike a talk show segment that they host. It isn't JUST the wrestler involved, the booking and the storylines need to be good too. I do like MizTV but not The Miz himself, for example. However for most of these talk show segments, if I haven't liked the wrestler(s) hosting it, then I usually disliked the talk show segments themselves and vice versa.

Out of all the ones mentioned by the threadstarter I liked Piper's Pit the best. As I said in the above paragraph, it set the standard for the rest. Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel and Edge's Cutting Edge come in 2nd and 3rd for me. Jericho and Edge were great hosts who used their promo skills to make the segments more interesting and therefore helped feuds become more important with the guests they had on their shows. I also recall more memorable segments from those shows than the others that were listed. They also always seemed to have the most controversial guests, making for better segments.

Next would be Abraham Washington's show. Sure he never actually worked a match on ECW (from what I recall anyway) and his show mysteriously vanished at one point, but I enjoyed it. Washington himself was hilarious and Tony Atlas as his sidekick was funny too. It was often one of the parts of ECW that I anticipated the most. Next is MizTV. I'm still not that big of a fan of Miz himself but it's becoming a better segment and has potential in the long run. Then we have Matt Striker's Classroom and MVP's VIP Lounge. They weren't as good as Jericho's or Edge's talk show segments but still served their purpose. Dead last is Carlito's Cabana. I hated Carlito, therefore these segments were a complete waste of time to me.

[sdelfin]

I saw it mentioned a couple of times that very few memorable things happened on certain talk-show segments. But that applies to all the shows. Sure, we may have so many fond memories of the big things that happened on the Barber Shop, Piper's Pit or Brother Love, but most of the time they were just good interview segments. These things were a good way for people to further develop their characters and try to get over. Marty Jannetty can't fly through a glass window every week. These days, you'll hear Cole announce the return of The Highlight Reel or The Peep Show, but since those don't run regularly it's obvious it's just an excuse for an angle.

[BigLuther]

Piper's Pit was really the first, but I wasn't watching while Piper was around and doing the shows regularly so I can't personally choose it as the best. The best to me is Jericho's Highlight Reel just because you knew it would ALWAYS be entertaining. Jericho is the right personality to have a talk show-type thing on WWE TV. Always hilarious, always on top of his game, they always advanced storylines and it wasn't just a filler segment like many of the talk shows that followed him.

[HeenanGorilla]

The title of the thread says "in-ring". Piper's Pit was held in the ring enough to count. But, since people are going with segments that were not held in the ring,--Barber Shop, Snake Pit, etc--I will join them.

The Funeral Parlor gave me the creeps...but in a good way. Never knew when Taker would pop out of a coffin to attack. Barber Shop, aside from the predictable Michaels kick/attack on Jannetty, was forgettable. Actually, Sid snapping was pretty cool. Snake Pit looked really cool, but aside from the botched guitar shot from Honky, nothing of substance there.

I think the Brother Love show had a lot of story-advancing moments. He was obnoxious, always instigating..but got results! I thought it was the blandest of stages, but as far as substance goes, Brother Love gets my vote.

[Dr.]

Piper's Pit. Next question.

Sure, I liked The Snake Pit, The Brother Love Show, The Funeral Parlor, The Barbershop, A Flair for the Gold, The Highlight Reel, The Peep Show, and I was probably the biggest Abraham Washington Show fan in the world while that was a thing, but Piper's Pit wipes the floor with each and every one.

It's not even one of those "original must be best" arguments a la Sean Connery as James Bond. Far from it. Piper's Pit is simply better, more entertaining, home to more memorable moments, and for me, holds more nostalgic value than any of the others. Piper's Pit was and still is a segment that I anticipate greatly. Other shows had their own charms, to be sure, but Piper's Pit is simply better than them all.