On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 2:42 AM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Guess I figured that Kilborn didn't quite fit the setup, and adding Snyder > wouldn't have mattered. While it was a good monologue, Drew seemed rushed > all night. Since this was equivalent to a test show, it's quite > understandable. > I wasn't that thrilled with the show that Drew did. It does go back to that period of shows done after Kilborn left and Ferguson was chosen. While Craig Kilborn was a serviceable host, he ended up needing to bring his producer and writers on screen to make comedy work. He didn't make a real imprint on the show as host and his writers could work with that format and a series of new hosts and keep the show going. Craig Ferguson, on the other hand, has been there 10 years and has really imprinted his personality on the show. He has a smaller staff of writers who work with his style of monologue and he uses improv chops to do bits like the cold open and the tweets/emails. It would be difficult for any newcomer to take that stage and take it over. So my criticism of Drew isn't that he failed at doing Craig's show well, because that is just too high an expectation for one night. I was hoping that Drew's monologue would be more like Drew Carey standup that just going through a list of topical jokes. Since Drew is no longer doing standup even that might have been too much to hope for. My feeling with Drew is that he just wanted to get through the show. When Craig hosted TPIR I'm sure he figured that the vast majority of people watching did not know who he was or the style of comedy he does. But I thought he and Josh did enough to bring his spirit to TPIR without going too inside. -- -- 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.
