Dave's troubles helped Leno's ratings tonight - by at least one extra viewer, as I watched my first Leno episode this week to see how he was going to deal with it. I was a little surprised Leno didn't have more of a hint of brotherhood in his tone, but OTOH I thought his Letterman jokes were the best part of any monologue I have seen him do since he moved to 10:00. The rest of the show tanked (I stayed for a little Jena fix, but the interview segment was weak - and that car thing is extremely lame. I have seen that twice and both times Leno asks if the driver has had sex in a car - is he really asking everyone the same questions as they run the course?).
Conan did not mention Dave at all - and opened his monologue with a couple of jokes on Brazil getting the Olympics, as if to underline that, yes, the show was taped today and no, he is not doing any Dave jokes. Guest Drew Carrey tried to bring it up at the start of his segment, but Conan was having none of it. Yahoo had a story on Fallon doing a few jokes (it will take more than a Dave diddle todo to get me to watch Fallon again) and Leno: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091003/ap_en_tv/us_tv_letterman_reax This story reports that tonight's Late Show was taped Thursday night - can that be right? I thought it was well established that they taped Friday's show on Monday - and of all weeks this seems like an odd one to tape two shows on Thursday. This morning when I turned on the TV one tuner was already on CBS and the other on NBC, so I was able to see how both the Early Show and the Today show covered the story. Both got the substance about the same, but there were two noticeable differences: One, the Early Show managed to cram the fact that Dave was not the ratings leader over Conan into the first paragraph (something like "On a day when the headline should have been "Letterman is tops in Late Night", instead...) - the Today Show did not mention that ratings at all. The other difference was that The Early Show managed to only show clips from Dave's revelation that did not feature the sounds of the audience laughing; while The Today Show had several clips that included extensive audience laughter. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
