Posted on 09/29/2011 5:10:41 PM PDT by iowamark
I’ve never understood the appeal of *any* late night variety/talk show. The Johnny Carson Show started out on the wrong side of the shark and things have got worse ever since.
Really, who ever watched this cr4p?
Can you support that with links? I don’t recall him ever being funny.
I seem to recall the same happening to Carson. It became decidedly un-hip to watch the Tonight Show. And now there's YouTube.
I lasted maybe 15 seconds at most, and have rarely even stopped on
his show since then.
Network TV viewership has been in decline for years and won’t plateau for a few more. And Leno and Letterman are old. NBC should have stuck with Conan, but in the long run it wouldn’t make much difference - late night talk shows on network TV were a 20th century phenomenon.
He pulled the shameless "let's practice one set of questions in rehearsal, and ask another set on the air" act on Bachmann.
I use to watch Leno, but now I just turn on Netflix/Roku and watch Dana Scully and Muldur..
The X-Files....
They have all the 200 episodes...
Mr. Letterman lost a total 560,000 viewers from last year........probably had something to do with that little klintonesque # Dave?
So that’s why you went left so fast, had to get on someone’s good side and you knew the Right would shun you.
The whole debacle with Conan O’Brien’s stint on NBC drove his fans, who are the young and hip viewers advertisers crave, to follow Conan over to TBS.
I’m of course a member of Team RedEye.
You & me both. In fact I am seriously considering cancelling my Charter cable TV altogether. I never watch TV any longer, and the only reason I keep cable TV is for the sports --- but it is harder to watch even NFL any longer because the liberal socialist bias & politically correct pandering to (especially blacks) is just getting sickening. In all honesty, TV is a piece of crap.
Leno and Letterman do have their work cut out for them with all of those “Paid Programming” programs that they have to go up against each night. I mean, how can you beat 50 minutes of the Sham Wow guy? LOL! And that 45 minutes of the 120 CD “70s Music” set. Wow!
I’ve always hated Letterman. Used to watch Leno when he first started but got bored with him after a couple of years. I’d rather watch re-runs of the Johnny Carson Show.
Letterman is a nasty, filthy pervert and the last time I saw Leno he looked completely bored and disinterested in what he was doing, appeared bloated/constipated and said not one funny thing in the 5 minutes I was able to stomach watching his useless show.
I don't watch any of them so I can't say.
I keep saying they have to put RedEye on at 11pm - or 11:30 - now’s the time, these guys are tanking - time to sweep in....
If you have a DirectTV - hit the ‘active’ button and see what everyone’s watching - amazing how many people don’t watch networks anymore
It’s not the hosts. It’s the guests. People would tune in late-night to see people like Sammy Davis chatting with Carson. Fewer care to see some Kardassian girl.
I used to watch Leno, years ago. I’ve come to conclude he’s not very funny.
Oh the days when these Late night shows were relevant. So long gone.
AAANNNNDDDD HEREEEE s Eastern Block Govt. Beltway TV!
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