On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 9:33 PM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> (SNIP) This struck me mainly because of how it seemed to be an article of > faith that a 12:35 show could not be transplanted wholesale to 11:35. Both > Dave and Conan seemed to take that to heart. Letterman's switch to 11:35 > was complicated by the whole intellectual property fight, there were new > bits, some characters did not follow him, music acts were not as > obscure/cutting edge. While Conan didn't have the IP issues (at least > before changing networks), characters were changed, Andy came back, new > bits made, old ones retired, etc. > > Certainly all shows change over time, but I think, if the first five weeks > of Fallon are representative, there may be a couple of new party games, but > the only way you could really tell if it was an 11:35 Tonight Show versus a > 12:35 Late Night episode is in the set (which seems to seat just as many as > before), the theme and the name. > > If you've managed to read this far, how crazy am I? > I don't think we ever really got to see Conan's 11:35 Tonight Show - it was just finding its footing when it got the carpet pulled from underneath it. But I think this idea as applied to Dave has always gotten it backwards. It was not that he could not do his 12:35 show at 11:35; rather, it was that he could not do an 11:35 show at 12:35. He had gotten older, and felt undignified doing a show for college kids (and those who still had the sensibilities of college kids) when he was 47. I don't think he was ashamed of his early work, he just wanted to get old gracefully. Fallon (and I am only a sampler too, of both his 12:35 and 11:35 shows) is starting his 11:35 show 8 years younger than Dave was. The relevant comparison will not be Fallon at 11:35 with Fallon at 12:35, but Fallon at 39 with Fallon at 49. Check back in 10 years and Fallon joking with Timberlake will seem more like Carson with Sinatra than the two guys who sang about di*ks in a box (or was that dic*s in a box?). -- -- 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/d/optout.
