Dishing <i>Survivor</i>

Greg Buis, the wacky Survivor contestant best known for pretending a coconut was a cell phone, was voted off the island Wednesday night.

Buis' departure didn't come as much of a surprise to some CBS viewers. Some visitors to the official Survivor Web site Wednesday afternoon found a story detailing Buis' departure, and other events from Wednesday's yet-to-be-broadcast episode. A short time later, the Survivor site went down, giving Web surfers a blank screen for much of the afternoon.

CBS spokesman Gil Schwartz said, "We continue to decline comment on all rumors and speculation pertaining to Survivor."

Usually, on Thursdays, the most recent Survivor castoff visits CBS News The Early Show. But Buis declined the invitation. Here are excerpts from the program's weekly Survivor panel discussion.

As we do every Thursday, we've gathered an eclectic Survivor round table, which this week includes actress and comedian Kathy Griffin; Tom Bergeron, the host of The New Hollywood Squares, and in Boston, motivational speaker Tony Robbins. Good morning, all.

Tom Bergeron: Good morning, Bryant. Greg's not here?

Gumbel: No, Greg's not here.

Bergeron: Apparently, he and Angelina Jolie are doing a sibling relationship seminar right near you, Tony, in Boston.

Kathy Griffin: Right out of the gate with the material.

Tony Robbins: This show is Jerry Springer mutated by nuclear war or something. These people are disgusting. I have only seen the show one time. I had to watch it last night. Greg's little comment of it's like this beautiful little kitten that you love and then you crack its neck and eat it because you have to!

Griffin: He went a little psychotic.

Gumbel: Did he deserve to go?

Griffin: I thought he was one of the better survivors. What I don't like about the show…is that now it's no longer about who's the best survivor. It's who's in the alliance. I don't like that.

Bergeron: It's better. It's like The West Wing on an island.

Griffin: I want to see who can really…survive on the island and do the stuff I can't do. I can be manipulative as Richard.

Gumbel: Why isn't that a survival skill?

Griffin: Then why put it on an island? I want my Gretchen back. I want (Greg), even though Greg was kind of a psycho and wanted to kill Colleen like she was a kitten, he was a good survivor and he had the skills.

Bergeron: I want to find out if Rudy and his wife are really the same person. In that video, didn't it look like The Patt Duke Show? It was amazing.

Gumbel: Let me start with this alliance. When is this alliance of Rudy, Richard, Kelly, and Susan going to crack?

Bergeron: Kelly is already pretty much out of there with the alliance.

Griffin: You can't go by the commercials. I can't believe that the morons in the nonalliance didn't figure it out.

Gumbel: Susan is blatantly two-faced and a liar.

Griffin: She's turned evil.

Bergeron: She started evil.

Griffin: Let me just say I like that Susan would not lose one pound on that island. That's what I love about Susan. She has not lost one pound. Everyone else looks like they're dying, and Susan is just stocky as can be.

Bergeron: Because she's going home to her husband, whom we saw last night, too.

Griffin: There's more to love.

Gumbel: More to love. Tony, could you help any of these people?

Robbins: You know, what's interesting is to see how these people initially, if you were strong and if you were likable, you were the person that looked like you were going to survive. Now if you're strong and likable, they want to get rid of you because you're the most likely person to succeed.

Griffin: I don't like that part. Makes me lose faith in humanity. I want the best survivor.

Gumbel: You had faith going in?

Griffin: Yes.

Robbins: I'm curious. When you saw the videos of their families, I was thinking, 'These people are so disgusting'… I think seeing their families for a few minutes made them look like human beings.

Griffin: Oh, yeah.

Bergeron: I felt bad for Jenna, though.

Griffin: I'm traumatized. They shouldn't have done the game if they didn't have the Jenna tape, with her beauties.

Gumbel: You were touched when Jenna started crying.

Griffin: Up until then, I thought she was kind of a bim.

Gumbel: A what?

Griffin: Bim. That's short for bimbo.

Gumbel: Jenna is probably the next to go, wouldn't you think?

Griffin: I don't think they'll break up the alliance. I think Sean is out of there. Sean or Gervase.

Gumbel: Gervase turns it on whenever he has to.

Bergeron: He was great at the end there. You saw him going through that obstacle course.

Gumbel: And he was great last week.

Griffin: That's something the guys are going to excel in. I want to see something that the girls could win... I like Colleen.

Gumbel: Everybody likes Colleen. Yeah. Keep her around.

Griffin: Easy, tiger.

Bergeron: You're old enough to be her father, cowboy.

Gumbel: Thank you very much. And you're not?

Bergeron: Yeah, but I'm not salivating here.

Gumbel: Tony, who wins this thing? Who wins?

Robbins: I honestly don't know. I haven't watched it enough times. The rules keep changing. If you ould have asked me when I first saw the show, I would have said the most committed. I can't predict.

Griffin: I think the alliance may turn on Richard. I'm thinking one of the girls.

Bergeron: I was hacking the Web site. I'm staying with Gervase.