On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 5:33:20 AM UTC-5, PGage wrote: > > > I love his short monologue and current events oriented Act 2, but it may be > costing him - of course I hope he never changes. >
I love his desk bit too - when he finally gets around to it. You mentioned his poor rapport with the bandleader, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. The show takes WAY too long to get started, and it gets started the same damn way every night. It's not fun anymore. The crowd standing and chanting his name got old by the second night; note that Kimmel never allows his audience a standing ovation (except when he's on the road), and while Fallon sometimes does, he never lets it delay the monologue. There's no reason to mention your guests in the short monologue when the announcer mentions them in the montage. And that montage is the longest opening montage in late night right now. (Letterman and Kimmel shortened theirs over the years.) I find it interesting that Seth Meyers shortened his opening montage and even eliminated the walk out from the curtain so that he could get quickly to the thing people tune in to see, political jokes. It's a lesson that Colbert should learn. Meyers is now telling his first joke less than a minute into his show; last week I noted that Colbert didn't tell his first desk joke until six minutes into his show. Six minutes! Half the audience is probably asleep by then. -Tim -- -- 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.
