On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:58 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > One success for them - I had sworn I would never watch this show, but > Di Niro and Morrison, and Fey the first two episodes was enough to get > me to TiVo it. They are going to have to book Lola Falana to get me to > watch a third.
I decided to give them a couple of weeks to get the bugs out before I watch and try to make a decision. I saw some clips on Hulu just to get a feel for the show. When Conan talks about his early days, he says that he knew he couldn't do detached irony like Dave and he had to find his own direction (especially in the early days when Jay was imitating Dave's show). In that same way, Fallon can't make his show a version of Conan's show as it's going to follow that show. So it's going to take him some time to find that and he will appear like he's in over his head until he does. > > I had such low expectations for the show that my first reaction was > that it was not quite as horrible as I thought it would be. I liked > the band a lot - though they should be banned from ever talking to > Jimmy. IN fact, I think that would be a good bit for them - let the > band talk to really cool guests, but have Jimmy never be cool enough > to qualify. Dave is the only host who can get away with being dissed by his staff. A host has to be the center of a talk show and a repeating bit where he gets marginalized won't work. It's a clever idea, though. > > The Lick it bit was a set up that could never pay off. The only pay > off is some kind of blowjob joke, which could never ever work (unless > maybe they used obvious actors/staffers and not audience members). Jimmy didn't really interact with them. The other hosts would at least ask some questions and get to know them a bit. Maybe ask why they volunteered to do the bit or how they felt knowing their parents would see them licking stuff. > > The opening with Conan was good. It was the best way possible to start the show. Tom W --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
