ms_ann_thrope
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Fighting for late night viewers must be very stressful.
How long until Jimmy Fallon self destructs?
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GuiltyPleasure
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You're on a roll tonight.....I like your sandwich thread.....turkey on rye, ROFL.
ms_ann_thrope
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On a roll...
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Ham on crackers.
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That's spreading it on pretty thick
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not soon enough
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12.65 years and then a new gig on another network?
ms_ann_thrope
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Letterman was better suited for the gig. He was a pure asshole.
Ishmael
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Hard to tell. He is partying heartedly. But I don't think he's going to last as long as he thinks he's going to last. He's made the show all about him, the guests are merely there for window dressing. Why bother with guests at all?
That being said, he is incredibly talented. But event the best of series comes to an end. Usually when they either lose their originality, or 'jump the shark' trying to outdo themselves.
I think Stewart will be gone before Fallon though.
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That Cheshire cat eternal grin only goes so far. I haven't watched the Late Nights since they fcuked Conan in the ass.
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Ishmael
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Whoever the hell it is in Letterman's spot. Colbert?
As far as the Leno/O'Brien debacle. O'Brien was supposed to bring in a younger demographic and failed to deliver while losing audience share. That decision was, like all of them in television, all about the money. It appears that at least Fallon is delivering on the demographic. But the younger viewers are notoriously fickle as well as easily bored. Time will tell.
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...the Roots might be the best part...
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I don't watch late night on a regular basis anymore but if I do watch one it's usually Fallon. I like him. Colbert is ok but I liked his other show more. I do miss Letterman.
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They didn't give him enough time and Leno's follow up show wasn't pulling so they sacrificed O'Brien after only a few months.
Yes, they're sort of hanging out and having a good time.
ms_ann_thrope
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I wonder what the hell Paul Shaffer is up to? He lived off the same shtick for 33 years.
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actually, conan's downfall at nbc
was more about leno not going away...
the network announced his replacement, conan,
before jay was quite ready to go...
( almost a year and a half out...)
and...
to keep conan under contract
(which was expiring)
and so as to deliver on the (tacit?) understanding
that he would inherit the
"carson seat"...
same gambit/different result
as the letterman debacle at nbc...
but jay was not really ready...
though as a magnanimous company guy he played game..
(he had a huge deal at nbc)
he bowed out but...
made no bones that
he was going to "explore" playing elsewhere...
fox?
cable?
kimmel's seat?
jay was out, gracefully, but in play...
and nbc dreaded that prospect...
remember his primetime show?
(which eventually fizzled)
nbc's payoff to keep him;
which cut conan at the knees
and nbc was too dense to realize that having cake and eating it too
shat the bed on both....
conan could not gain traction...
nbc caught the yipes...
jay was the known whale in the pond...
so, nbc pulled a "new coke"
and
went back to the tried, tired formula...
conan,
no dumb bunny,
had a huge pay or play...
he sat out a year and a lucrative half,
and...
went back to quiet work...
at time warner...
btw... as the colbert show gets its feet,
it is also getting the "gets"
( the a-list guest book )
and...
emerging as an honest hybrid of his former faux-show
it may well soon challenge the fallon train...
the numbers are rising...
as his "natural" style is establishing...
fallon is talented and energetic,
but not entirely my cup of sanka...
i agree that he is too glib by a chunk...
but truly a talent...
the roots are amazing.
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I'm not so sure that Conan's downfall was not capturing the young demographic as much as not capturing any of the old fart demographic
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I think that Jimmy Fallon is a joke and I hope he chokes to death on broccoli.
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That is distrubingly specific.
cleaver
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like i said above...
nbc got the yipes...
could not yet commit to pushing the curve...
conan could have made it
had they fully buried the leno corpse
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Probably landed on his feet. Golden parachute style.
