Late Night Icons (Leno, Letterman) See Their Ratings Slide

NY Times ^ | September 29, 2011 | Bill Carter

[iowamark]

Leno has Herman Cain scheduled Friday. Let's see if he trashes Cain the way he did Bachmann.

[DouglasKC]

The more lefty they become the worst their ratings get.

[SunTzuWu]

Letterman hasn't been funny since the early ‘80s.

[truthguy]

Who cares about late night network TV? Nobody is watching the Networks anymore anyhow.

[Darren McCarty]

Letterman’s a real piece of trash.

[ConorMacNessa]

That they are popular at all is a sad commentary on the level of intelligence of the viewing public. Their fans are bottom feeders and the Dynamic Duo keep descending to new levels to satisfy them.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Indy Pendance]

TV? What’s that? I heard it was from the last century.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Letterman can cram it hard. I have no opinion on Leno.

[greene66]

I used to watch the various late-night shows, off and on, for many years. But, if anything, it was when Letterman went off on making sleazy rape jokes towards Sarah Palin’s 13-year-old daughter, I stopped watching not only his show, but I really just stopped watching ALL of those shows. I never even take the slightest glimpse of them anymore, and I haven’t missed them a single bit.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Plus, most of the people I’d want to hear interviewed have since died (’cept for Don Rickles).

[RckyRaCoCo]

Red Eye is better than all of them combined. I record it, then watch at 11:30PM...better than watching the unfunny O’baggers on late-night.

[bwc2221]

Why anyone would stay up and listen to either of those losers is beyond me.

[buccaneer81]

Let's see if he trashes Cain the way he did Bachmann.

I'm no Leno fan, but Bachmann was terrible in that appearance.

[denydenydeny]

I stopped watching all the late-night shows a few years ago because the politics became unbearable to me.

At some point in the middle of the Bush adminstration the basic assumption of the all the late night monologues is that Republicans and conservatives are the “other” and outside the American mainstream. Meanwhile, apparently there is nothing funny about Democrats, ever.

So if I’m outside their “mainstream” they don’t need my viewership, ever.

[I Drive Too Fast]

I quit watching him when he made his stupid remarks about the Palin family. The other he joked that if Gov. Christie was elected President he would take up 2 seats on Air Force 1. Nope, not funny at all.

[I Drive Too Fast]

The other he should be The other day he.

[Bullish]

Neither one of them are worth a thimbles worth of cold spit. Especially that idiot Letterman.

I haven't watched either one of them for years.

[Obadiah]

So if I’m outside their “mainstream” they don’t need my viewership, ever.

Yep, Letterman and Leno have told me over and over again that they do not want me as a viewer.

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Leno and Letterman are running four years behind in their political jokes. People know it. They are oblivious.

[Sybeck1]

I’m asleep then.