First episode to air as "The Soup" It all started in 1991 with the birth of E!'s Talk Soup, a tasty dish that recapped the week in talk shows and launched the careers of it's hosts Greg Kinnear, John Henson, Hal Sparks and Aisha Tyler. Now, over a decade later, E! is introducing the show's new offspring The Soup which looks past talk shows and skewers everything in pop-culture.