Originally Posted by Mutt

I know, but she draws an audience of 8-9 million viewers 5 days a week - where these big name late night talkshows draw 2-3 million. Judge Judy show does $250 million in ad sales a year. She's probably underpaid, the production costs of that show are next to nothing.

From Oprah, Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern etc, if you're interesting enough that huge numbers of people want to listen and watch you you become very rich.