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In reply to the discussion: Jay Leno’s monologue tonight really sucked.. [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)Letterman's meager audience is almost all male, and he treats women as if he was part
of the ratpack days. Like dirt.
And his stunts over the years with the regular workers/owners of the small stores around him(though most of them were long ago bought out as their stores were purchased) showed his true colors around minorities. Treated them as lauging stock making fun of their speaking voices and all.And they were forced to take it and play along.
Jay Leno is a democratic liberal. He is equal opportunity on his jokes, and he is going out as he started #1.
He has kept Johnny Carson/Ed McMahon's audience/base.
NBC made a major mistake with the very untalented to be a host (but great writer) Conan
and they are making another mistake with Jimmy Fallon, who is not ready for prime time hosting (he is a terrible interviewer, and the only thing he does well are song parody, which he does very well) but his after monologue stuff also stinks.
I will take Jay's headlines, Jay's Jaywalking, and I love that Gas Station TV bit.
I know Jay owns both the headlines and Jaywalking, so when Jay gets a job on a different station one will still be able to see those.
This is, by the way, just what is wrong in America-
they throw out someone because he is a little old, and replace him with one of them
me me me me generation as Joel Stein wrote about in Time Magazine.
BTW, you know all those lousy movies Lorne makes with different SNL people over the years.
That is what will happen with Jimmy in NYC produced by Lorne.
Be prepared for a lot of fart jokes and distasteful stuff like SNL does.
IMHO
and I have a sneaky feeling Letterman is not long for the tv world.(they should have fired him a few years ago after "that" incident.)
The 11:30 talk show is suppose to be a certain type. People are looking for lite humor and easy non stressful stuff before nodding off to sleep.
They are not looking for heavy political stuff and the zingers are equal opportunity.
But I do get that there is a professional publicity anti-Leno campaign for years.
Why?
Sheer jealousy by the others. When one is on top, everyone under always hates them.
But each of them(much like the alt-media) would sell their left foot to be them.
And when thinking about Conan, remember something- Conan kicked George Lopez out.
Conan's fans blamed Leno for doing that to him, then Conan did the exact same thing he was angry at to George.
Conan stunk at NBC at 1130. Much worse stink than even Chevy Chase.
NBC should have gone big and different if they were going to dump Leno while he is the #1 and not Jimmy Fallon.
Say Amy and Tina (though Tina refused because she has no time).
Do something different.
(and I fear the Letterman replacement will also be the same old same old.)