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Fallon To Take Over LATE NIGHT In March?? O’Brien To Take Over TONIGHT In June?? NBC Timetable Coming Tuesday??
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Bill Carter at the New York Times has a Monday story that assembles a speculative timetable for NBC’s late night transition:
Autumn 2008?: Jimmy Fallon starts Web-only talk show.
February 2009?: Conan O’Brien ceases hosting “Late Night.”
March 2009?: Fallon begins hosting “Late Night.”
June 2009?: Jay Leno ceases hosting “Tonight.”
O'Brien takes over "Tonight" subsequent to Leno's departure.
According to the Times piece, NBC is expected to announce its timetable on Tuesday.
Find all of the Times’ piece here.
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Conan rules... Jimmy too
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On the other hand, I'm sure Craig Ferguson is dancing in the aisles.
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This one important question overrules all others.
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World rejoices. Wait, that's not true, Horartio Sanz is devastated.
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Abandon or tone down Triumph, the Masturbating bear, or any of the other things that have worked for him so far.
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Jul 20, 2008 11:32:25 PM CDT
I have liked Conan O'Brian less and less over the years.
by cotton mcknight
You know what? I think Craig Ferguson is genuinely funny and his is a better show all around.
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As NBC screw it up with a late night host all over again. I'm not a huge fan of Fallon but maybe he's a better host than comedian...
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Hello Craig Ferguson! Fallon sucks. Period. He will be the death of Late Night on NBC (at least until they replace him after a few months when ratings tank - particularly in the key advertising demos).
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He and Hortio Sanz actually thought comedy was breaking characters in lame sketches and laugh at your own lame jokes. I seriously hope he brings that same high comedy to his late night show.
The sad thing is that NBC has been paying Fallon for a few years now to not work and sit back and wait for Conan's old gig. Does NBC really think Fallon is that funny or does NBC have some kind of contract that they must give ex-SNLers who can't get a movie career kick started a TV gig (see Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, and now Amy Poehler). -
Don't worry, the network will make him tone down his act and become safe. 11:30 is still considered skewed older and Conan will be as vanilla as Leno in no time. Look at Letterman after he moved to 11:30 (granted a different network).
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Ouch. On the other hand, who knows? Arsenio Hall did pretty well with HIS show...
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they're all basically 10 minutes of 'current events' monologues (accompanied by sidekick/bandleader's stupid laughting so you know its funny), then a skit, then 20 minutes of guests talking about whatever they're selling that week with a few 'personal' anecdotes thrown in so we can relate to their '$20 million a movie paycheck' lives. Maybe these shows had an actual purpose before the advent of Entertainment Tonight and its 375 clones (not to mention the internet) but nowadays? And Fallon must give one amazing blowjob to be getting that job...
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Jimmy Fallon is number one on my shortlist of TV hosts I'd NEVER WANT TO WATCH. He's also numbers two and three. And four. And five. The only people who will watch his show are dumb girls who think "he's cute." So I guess it'll be a hit. What a sad world. So many great improvisers and stand-up comedians, and NBC goes with crap on a stick.
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Who's Jimmy Fallon?
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cuz im not really sure that conan will play for the 1130 crowd...and as leno's ratings havent fallen, and he is being pushed out...look for abc to finally dump niteline and bring him over...fox may make a play, but he will stick with one of the big 3...question will be whether he stays in la or heads to nyc
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Jul 21, 2008 2:16:21 AM CDT
btw....the two guys who should be hosting late nite are on comed
by bacci40
you know that stewart and colbert would kill in the ratings...
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Letterman should retire and let Ferguson take over. More people need to discover Ferguson's awesomeness.
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That would be more up his alley.
I hate Jimmy Fallon. This guy will destroy LATE NIGHT. I can't believe that NBC doesn't see this. They deserve what happens to them if they go through with anointing this guy their LATE NIGHT host. The show would probably stand a better chance if NBC just rotated their pages as hosts. -
Oh dear lord it can't be true
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Though I like him as the quirky guy in the 1230 slot, I don't know if I'd wanna see him take over for Letterman. I also liked Kilborn before him, both guys definitely better hosts than peope generally give them credit for.
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Are there double agents in the entertainment business?
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It was as though it came from one of Gervais' shows. Letterman is asking these innocent "get-to-know-you" questions about favorite sports and pets...and Gervais is playing along, but also looking like "what the fuck is going on here?" Priceless.
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One can hope....put Leno on at 11:30 on ABC....it would be the nail in NBC's coffin.....Ferguson is better than o'Brian and with Fallon coming it wont even be a contest...Hell his opening monolog now is better than Lettermans...
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I can understand being annoyed when he and Sanz used to crack up during bits, but he was a very talented impressionist and could play a lot of roles on SNL.
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him not being remotely funny. The only laughs he ever got on SNL were when he was a) ripping off Adam Sandler or b) 'accidentally' cracking up during every second skit he was in.
here's a pretty good litmus test. The Youtube test. Go to youtube.com and search for the name of any comedian, and you'll usually find pages of their very best stuff. Do this with 2 or 3 other comedians that you like. As you go down the list of their vids, you'll no doubt be taking a stroll down nostalgia lane, fondly reviewing all the things they did to make you love them as a comedian. Now do Fallon. What are your results? Right. Pages and pages of him doing corny songs and drawing attention to himself by interrupting other people's moments with his 'spontaneous' crackups. As you browse this list of results, it slowly dawns on you that Fallon has no funny moments, no highlights, no evidence of anything that could have elevated him to stardom. His popularity was a fad, and the attention undeserved. -
...hasn't been funny since 1995. Sure, they've had a few lucky squirts but so did your Dad.
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I agree that Conan has became less funny over the last few years. He seems to be doing the same jokes every night and using the same formulas over and over. I understand this can work to some extent but he just runs anything that works into the ground. Chuck Norris got overused, Triumph hasn't been funny since the Star Wars Premiere skit, making fun of Max Weinberg's response to "It's gonna be a great show tonight huh Max?" is always the same... unless Jimmy Vivino's standing in as band leader. Also, acting COMPLETELY amazed at the audiences reaction to jokes that don't work is no longer a way to turn something around and make it funny. Craig Ferguson may not have back-to-back jokes all the time but when it's not funny he quickly moves on to something that is instead of pushing to make a joke work one way or the other. In the end, Conan has become formulaic for fear of losing his audience while Craig Ferguson has the "nothing to lose" attitude that makes him genuinely funny. Late Night with Craig Ferguson '09!
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... he's Scottish. For real. Not like Conan's semi-fake Irishness.
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...someone assassinate Carson Daily. I mean look at him:
http://tinyurl.com/37vgyc
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After NBC realizes it made a huge mistake in about 2 years.
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AS MSNBC is now a digital channel, In ireland. Graham Norton is the best chat show host currently in the UK.
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He is untalented and unprofessional. Tracy Morgan basically said he wasn't very popular because he was always stepping over everyone's lines and laughing his way through every scene asking everyone to look at him because he is so cute. I'm sure if Morgan is saying these things publically, I am sure a lot of the cast were saying it in private.
It really did seem that the undue attention did go to his head. I think because a lot of the female audience did find him cute, he and others confused that with talent. Personally, I never found him a fraction as funny as he thought he was himself. Usually when a comedian laughs at his own jokes, it is because they aren't funny enough to get the audience to laugh. -
and also he's too much of a fucking hack to stay in character for 4 minutes instead of laughing like a moron mid-joke. I dont know how Tina Fay put up with him on Weekend Update, but she deserves a medal.
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There are a lot of people who watch Saturday Night Live out there who were too young to see the comedic genius of the original cast (Bill Murray is part of the original cast in my eyes btw), Eddie Murphy when he had an edge, Crystal and his cohorts, and even the Carvey/Hartman/Lovitz years and think that Fallon and Sanz cracking up in sketches is comedy. Maybe if it happens once or twice, it can be funny. But as basically part of the sketch, it is basically unprofessional.
If you Google "Debbie Downer" you will find a god-awful sketch with Lindsey Lohan as the guest star with a horrible sketch which everyone seems to think is genius because Fallon, Sanz, Lohan, and Rachel Dratch are cracking up during the entire sketch. Ahhhhh, the bar was set really low during the Fallon years of SNL. They all should have just got baked before the show and acted like idiots. Well, maybe they did. -
cracking up is acceptable when its someone else making them laugh, like when Sandler or whoever would crack up at Chris Farley's antics. But laughing at your own shit is retarded as hell.
and who in their right mind would want to google Debbie Downer?? That's the kind of "new franchise character" crap that made me stop watching SNL in the first place! I'm surprised Lorne didnt make a movie out of her! -
"Haw, haw, haw, haw, stoppit' Jimmy, you're killing me" (cue to pound chest) "Got to give the ticker some relief, you're killing me. What's that, I'm a fat what? Haw, haw, haw..." Remember William B on SCTV? Uh-huh.
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