Long before O’Reilly and Beck, Morton Downey, Jr., was tearing up the talk-show format with his divisive populism. Between the fistfights, rabid audience, and Mort’s cigarette smoke always „in your face,“ The Morton Downey Jr. Show was billed as „3-D television,“ „rock and roll without the music.“ Évocateur meditates on the hysteria that ended the ’80s and ultimately its most notorious agitator.