[bdeaner]

There's one powerful force working against that: Conan O'Brien is still doing the immature crap that he was doing in the 12:30 slot. Letterman doesn't have Jay to fight any more.

You don't think Conan is funny? I think he's hilarious. MUCH better than Letterman. Maybe it's an age thing. I'm Gen X. I bet you are a Boomer. I've always thought Letterman was an unfunny douchebag. I was happy when he didn't get the Tonight Show.

[hunter112]

You are right, I'm a boomer. The stuff that grates on me is what I call the immature crap, that stupid thing where he jerks up on each pant leg with an imaginary string, or makes weird noises for no apparant reason.

I know that a lot of comedians started out as the class clown, but when people are paying you millions of dollars to entertain millions of people, you have to leave some of that stuff back in junior high. The comedy sketches are sometimes funny, but more often than not, they're like SNL skits that take a punch line and try to string one minute's worth of funny into five minutes. Maybe we Baby Boomers were raised on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, where quick takes were the norm.

Letterman's not terribly funny, I will look forward to Jay Leno's ten o'clock show in the fall, and maybe I'll just get to sleep earlier at night. They're telling Jay that he cannot poach the top guests away from Conan, which is fine with me, I really don't care to hear what some brainless starlet has to say when she's not reading lines from a script. Hopefully, his comedy writers are going along with him, it would be fine with me if he just spent an hour doing that.

[green pastures]

I’ve gotten to the point I can’t stand either one of them.

(I mean CO and DL, not bdeaner and hunter 112, just for clarification...)

Gen X.