chatfest

English

Etymology

From chat +‎ -fest.

Noun

chatfest (plural chatfests)

1. (informal) A talkfest.
   • 2008 March 20, Mike Hale, “Singer’s Family Revisits Its Reality-Show History”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     After some back and forth between Ms. Cole and Ananda Lewis, the Oprah Winfrey of this chatfest, Neffe and Frankie take their places on the couch, […]

   • 2009 November 6, Saul Hansell, “A cable news channel for the YouTube world”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Maybe that is not exactly the way things go for most bar jokes or for most talk shows. But it is standard operating procedure for Mike Straka, producer of "The Strategy Room," a chatfest that runs eight hours every weekday, streamed from FoxNews.com.

   • 2010 January 27, Garrison Keillor, “Recombobulate America”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     There they all were on the Sunday-morning chatfests, droning on about the anger of the American people as shown by the election in Massachusetts of a pickup truck to the U.S. Senate — ever ready, as pundits are, to take one good story and extrude it into a national trend portentous with meaning.

   • 2010 April 12, Brian Stelter, “‘This Week’ Is Adding Online Fact Checks”, in The New York Times‎^[4]:

     The fact checking, which started Sunday, stands in stark contrast to the he-said, she-said nature of most television chatfests, even though PolitiFact’s work takes place well after the facts and possible falsehoods are first uttered on TV.