On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:39 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Seven suggestions: > http://www.today.com/entertainment/ferguson-handler-no-shortage-possible-successors-david-letterman-2D79481796 > > Of these, for me, please not Ferguson, DeGeneres or Seinfeld. I am not > really familiar with Handler. Each of the rest would be interesting - I > like Poehler (but then, why not Fey?). > > Craig Ferguson > Chelsea Handler > Amy Poehler > Ellen DeGeneres > Stephen Colbert > Louis CK > Jerry Seinfeld >
I agree that Craig taking 11:35 would be an odd choice (though I won't say it'd be a wrong choice). None of the others on the list are serious contenders except maybe Seinfeld. While I will always consider Letterman one of the giants of his field, his retirement is actually an exciting prospect to me. For starters, no matter where the chips fall, Lorne Michaels' bland hand won't have any part in what happens, which makes the odds of me liking the CBS late night lineup much greater than NBC's. I assume they will want to skew as young as possible, but they also can't hire a talk show failure like Ryan Seacrest. They won't go to Conan or Jay (or Arsenio, for that matter). I could see them choosing someone like Chris Hardwick or one of the other geek-friendly podcasters out there. I could also see them stealing Joel McHale from The Soup. -- 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/d/optout.
