On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:32 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> A search on one of the extralegal torrent sites shows Williams appeared with >> Leno on 1/8/10, 5/22/9, and 2/8/8 > > > I have never learned how to use those torrent sites, not so much out of > ethics as stranger danger stories my mother told me when I was a boy of > catching gonorrhea from visiting them. > > Using your most recent date I did as complete a search of Hulu+ as I could - > they do not have video for the January 8 2010 (a Friday) Tonight show. Then > it struck me that Conan was doing the Tonight Show (the Wikis say Coco's last > show as Friday, 1/22/10, and Jay Leno first show back was 3/1/10). Maybe the > 1/8/10 show was Brian Williams on with Coco? June 1 2009 > > So I searched for May 22 2009 on Hulu+ and they have no video for the Tonight > Show for that night either. May 22, 2009 would have been one of Leno's last > shows prior to Conan (Leno's last show was May 29, 2009). I searched on > Youtube and went 5 pages in to the results without seeing a single hit for > the Tonight Show. Ditto on both sites for a search of 2/8/8. > > Again, even when searching explicitly for the Tonight Show and Brian > Williams, I come up with lots of links to Williams with Dave, and quite a few > of Williams with Stewart and Fallon (and I think Conan). But none with Leno. > I am wondering now if the hits you got on torrent were really to interview > segments of Williams on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, rather than some kind > of pre-taped bit? > > Now I am really eager to see a Leno interview of Williams - when my daughter > gets home I may ask her to lead me through the scary torrent waters to try to > find it.
Part of the roadblock you are facing tracking down video might be that Leno has simply never been big on the internet (aside from his isolated Jay's Garage webisodes, which are standalones). His following on social media pales in comparison even to many cable TV hosts. Conan's Team Coco gave him a massive boost online (I say this as a fan of his, the boost is probably bigger than he deserves). Leno's digital footprint isn't impressive, to say the least. If you and your daughter search, I used the Pirate Bay website for the search (I didn't download any torrents). I simply searched using the keywords "Leno Brian Williams" (on torrent sites, they use host names instead of names of shows, so you'll never find Leno by searching for "Tonight Show"). -- 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 --- 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.
