On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> [As dad goes to get his apparently-ready hearing devices...] >> >> With Jimmy in the role of Jay, by Brian Lowry in* Variety* >> <http://variety.com/2015/tv/columns/jimmy-fallon-stephen-colbert-late-night-competition-david-letterman-jay-leno-1201593377/>. >> (link) >> > > If the humidity is in a certain range, and the light is just right, and if > you squint in just the right way Fallon/Colbert looks like Leno/Letterman. > Otherwise it's apples and oranges and a TV columnist fishing for a > controversial topic. > Agreed, but I think you are being too kind. The parallel is that one is at NBC and the other at CBS, and that, 7 shows in, the NBC host has higher ratings and the CBS host is more substantive. Is it possible columnist at Variety really thinks that gets at the core of the Letterman-Leno rivalry? If that was the major part of their rivalry there would not have been a rivalry. Their dynamic was a function of their shared history as two of the brightest stars in the hot Southern California stand-up scene, then Letterman giving Leno a national television profile by having him as a frequent guest on Late Night, then Leno getting the Tonight Show gig that Dave long coveted and many thought was his, without talking to Dave about it directly. The personal hatred between the two is often exaggerated, but they do have a tense relationship, going back 40 years or more. Colbert and Fallon have no shared history even close to anything as long, intertwined, intense or conflicted. The history they do have is marked by collegiality and goodwill, and Colbert has gone out of his way to avoid the edgy fraternal competition that Dave in particular could almost never resist. This column is a joke. We are a ways yet from being able to really judge how Colbert is doing ratings wise; If he can get pretty close to Dave's position vis a vis Leno he will be more than successful for CBS (since I am sure he is making significantly less). -- -- 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.
