On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:06 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think that is reasonable - and I would not be critical of Leno if that > was his rationale. Dave has in some ways taken the place of Walter Cronkite > for CBS - on matters of broad national importance he makes a space on his > broadcast and speaks for himself and from the heart, but also in a way is > the voice of the network. If that is even a little bit true in Dave's case > (and I guess it is a bit of a stretch), it is not even a little bit true > for Leno and NBC, who has Brian Williams, and still, I guess in some > capacity, Tom Brokow. Leno is seen at being good at some things, but this > is not really one of them, and given that NBC had both the SNL tribute and > the thing on The Voice, the feeling may well have been that the network had > sufficiently addressed it. >
Frankly, I think being real is what Leno is best at, which is why it annoys me he so rarely does it on the Tonight show. I was in his studio years ago when he very candidly talked about his mom having died the weekend prior, and about how hard it was to try to make others laugh that day. And I would state that, without question, the shows he did during the writer's strike -- when he didn't have the same hack jokes and the same hack sketches, and when he didn't have to pretend to like a new movie or TV series -- were the best shows he has ever done. Contrast that with last night's show, where he didn't address the elephant in the room, told the same monologue jokes he has told for decades, read headlines, then attempted to interview Megan Fox, a.k.a. a vacuum with nice curves. Ugh. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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
