On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 1:58:47 PM UTC-4, David Bruggeman wrote: > > Over at Ebert's pages.... > > http://blogs.suntimes.com/shales/2013/03/leno_late_night_me.html > > More a collection of observations than a cohesive argument for or against > something. YMMV. I find it interesting, or perhaps just rare, that Shales > appears to have something not-so-nice to say about someone associated with > Saturday Night Live. > > There is some scrambling to try and keep this story going. Aggregator > sites have been trying to make hay out of both Conan and Jay having nothing > in their monologues last night about this whole deal. > > David > "By the time Letterman sees them, most of his guests have been 'pre-interviewed' by producers and virtually rehearsed to death, but this is common to all the major talk shows -- and in spite of it, many of them still sparkle spontaneously with Letterman as they do on no other show, partly because he will ignore the notes and go off on some mad tangent of his own." Note that he does not mention Craig Ferguson, king of the "mad tangents," once in this article. He does make a very good point about the Starbucks joke. In the end, so little separates their humor. I've never understood why people criticize one host's comic style when the others are so similar. -Tim
-- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
