Just watched. I’ve witnessed worse.

I take it none of you watched many young comic appearances during the Leno
era Tonight Show? As a page I can recall comics performing to near-total
silence.*

* Kevin Eubanks’ “oh man” sort of comments not withstanding

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 7:37 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here is the youtube link:  https://youtu.be/wKS-FnOHuWE
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 5:16 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I noticed how much he bombed, too.  Just seemed to be an off night.
>> I watched the show by streaming it on my CBS app. I skipped over Hillary
>> Swank and watched the Middleditch interview and then waited for Albanese.
>> CBS made me watch a zillion commercials to get Albanase performance and it
>> wasn't worth it. Next time I'll just see if it's on YouTube.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 1:53 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I liked him on Wilmore and I think he was a big part of the success of
>>> TDS. This was not an unfunny person, it was a funny person not being funny.
>>> Maybe I am exaggerating, though I appreciate Jon’s confirmation. It seemed
>>> to me like his timing was off, or he had just broken up with his GF. But
>>> maybe it was the material.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:40 AM 'Bradford Harvey' via TVorNotTV <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I haven’t seen the train wreck yet but just wanted to point out that,
>>>> after leaving The Daily Show, Rory Albanese was executive producer and
>>>> frequent guest on Larry Wilmore’sNightly Show and was usually pretty
>>>> funny on that. Looking forward to seeing how bad he tanked on
>>>> Colbert…I guess.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On
>>>> Behalf Of *Jon Delfin
>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 21, 2018 11:22 AM
>>>> *To:* tvornottv <[email protected]>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [TV orNotTV] [TV orNotT Albanese on Colbert
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not just me, then. Some of the material was clearly newish (perhaps too
>>>> new, not really worked?), but other bits felt like scraps meant to be
>>>> burned off on the mass audience.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:03 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure what Rory Albanese has been up to since he left The Daily
>>>> Show, but I suspect it has not been refining his stand-up skills.  It has
>>>> been a long time then I have seen a comic die on television as hard as he
>>>> did on Colbert last night. Did he just gave an off night or was he never a
>>>> successful stand up?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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