Late Night Wars Episode 4: A New Orange Hope

[Nirvana]

This is better:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Tonight-Show-Fak...d=p3911.c0.m14

[cka]

awesome the one LN character I was happy to not see make the transition made the transition

[cka]

anybody hope that since Leno Ruins Primetime starts tonight that the nbc execs will loosen the reigns on conan a bit, like me?

[FirstBlood]

I hope he steals whoever is writing the Leno-style cut-to-an-unfunny-5-second-clip jokes that Conan had never done before the Tonight Show.

You know, the ones in the monologue where Leno/Conan sets up the joke and it cuts to a clip of Kevin Eubanks/Max's face superimposed on someone elses body and it's NEVER even remotely clever?

[Drewbacca]

Yeah I realized about week 2-3 how watered down this Conan was. Homogenized. It has moments of brilliance, but most of the time I can't be bothered to even check in (the nights I'm not in the studio working anyway). It's a bummer because of how solid Late Night was.

It was to be expected, I guess. And the show still has moments. I just remember what was and cannot stomach it.

[magnifiedplaid]

Yeah I realized about week 2-3 how watered down this Conan was. Homogenized. It has moments of brilliance, but most of the time I can't be bothered to even check in (the nights I'm not in the studio working anyway). It's a bummer because of how solid Late Night was.

It was to be expected, I guess. And the show still has moments. I just remember what was and cannot stomach it.

This is the truth...and I don't understand why it has to be so watered down. Fuck...its still fucking 11:30 at night! I promise you most kids and old ladies are already asleep by 11:30 anyways. Fuck...I'm asleep by 11:30 most nights too. 10:00 to be exact.

[cka]

hahaha wow this is the EXACT SAME SHOW he did on the 11:30 slot

maybe that means no more watered down conan!!!

[magnifiedplaid]

Jay's set reminds me of The Arsenio Hall show for some reason.

[Mr-K]

I haven't been watching Conan because... I've always liked Conan but I've never watched late night talk shows regularly save maybe The Daily Show, but how has he been watered down?

[cka]

all the bits he usually recycles endlessly just aren't that funny and not as offensive/outrageous as some of the LN bits were (save for a slim handful), and the running theory is that nbc executives made him tone it down to keep advertisers/viewers happy since he's in the earlier time slot

for example, we haven't seen the masturbating bear nor artie kendall (the ghostly image of brian stack that sings racist/sexist songs) yet