Editing Geraldo Rivera

{{Character
|name = Geraldo Rivera
|image = [[File:Geraldo Rivera.jpg|250px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
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|age = 
|status = Alive
|job = Attorney<br>Journalist<br>Author<br>Reporter<br>Talk show host
|relatives = 
|appearance =''[[Grampa's Christmas Origins: Christmas Cookies]]''
|mentioned = "[[Stark Raving Dad]]"
|voiced by = 
}}

'''Geraldo Rivera''' is an American attorney, journalist, author, reporter, and talk show host.

== History ==
When [[Homer]] was in a [[New Bedlam Rest Home for the Emotionally Interesting|mental hospital]] their phone had Rivera on speed dial.<ref>"[[Stark Raving Dad]]"</ref>

During the heyday of [[The Be Sharps]], one song that [[Homer]] tried to write had the lyrics, "There was nothing in {{w|Al Capone}}'s vault, but it wasn't Geraldo's fault".<ref>"[[Homer's Barbershop Quartet]]"</ref> 

== Non-canon ==
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In [[Homer]]'s nightmare, [[Marge]] and the kids watched ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' during one of {{ch|Johnny Carson}}'s {{w|Carnac the Magnificent}} sketches, where he reads what is written inside an envelope. Carson as Carnac said, "Geraldo Rivera, [[Madonna]], and a diseased yak." They never got to hear the punchline, however, as first {{ch|Ed McMahon}} started laughing, and then Marge said that Homer had been mising for two days.<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror II]]"</ref>

In one of his [[Grampa's Christmas Origins|Christmas origins stories]], [[Grampa]] said that Rivera had discovered cookies in Al Capone's vault in 1987, after they had been banned since 1929.<ref>''[[Grampa's Christmas Origins: Christmas Cookies]]''</ref>

== Behind the Laughter ==
Homer's songwriting lyric and the cookie discovery recounted by Grampa both refer to the television special ''{{w|The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults}}'' (hosted by Rivera), where after a huge media buildup the vault was anticlimactically discovered to be empty except for dirt and debris.

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|Stark Raving Dad|(mentioned)}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror II|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|Homer's Barbershop Quartet|(mentioned)}}
*{{bon|Grampa's Christmas Origins: Christmas Cookies}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
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