why do people put up with him?

This is one self obsessed crusty old fart. For starters look at the intro to his show, you'd think with all the famous stars he's had on in the past decades they'd play an intro with clips of mohammed ali, woody allen, george best, oscar winners etc, but know its random shots of him grinning smugly. His show is entirely based on him, he always ensures his questions are longer than any answers he gets and how close do his knees have to be to the guests? And finally the music he has is just crooners, crooners, crooners, crooners, jazz bimbos and crooners.