Posted on 08/09/2025 3:56:43 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
>>Jimmy Fallon Fawns
Your alliteration is brilliantly done. Beautifully pleasing to the ear. Really love well done wording.
They shared a story about meeting each other in a bar and they were both drunk. They later went next door to a gay bar....
Softball interview? You mean it focused on what late night shows used to focus on?, i.e. providing light, entertaining programming? Outrageous! We can’t have that!
I had assumed Gutfeld was Jewish, but you’re right. I just looked it up. And yes, both Fallon and Colbert were raised Catholic as was Kimmel.
Not sure if you meant sarcasm. “ Jimmy Fallon Fawns” is a direct quote from deluded fools at The Daily Beast.
BTW, here’s the interview, for those who were interested. I found it surprisingly entertaining. There was no mention of politics throughout the interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6bn0a6Dcns&t=1s
I had assumed Gutfeld was Jewish, but you’re right.
Or maybe he became Jewish for the jokes.
No sarcasm. I assumed it was your invention as I wouldn’t read prog sources. I truly love alliteration, rhythm and words. Long ancestry of poets and play a lot with words myself. Just really loved the sounds of the phrase.
I spent ten years researching New York newspaper poetry from 1775-1828 and did a lot of work with phoneme pairs - the last sound of one word paired with the first sound of the next.
Sorry it wasn’t yours, but it was good, regardless of the originator.
Curious to see what the ratings are
What was he supposed to do? Spit in his eye?
It’s funny how Gutfeld gets grouped with Colbert and the others when he is distinctly different from them. He’s not doing a late show in the mold of Johnny Carson on network TV like they supposedly are. He’s on FOX, a cable news channel with an open political bias. If I’m not mistaken, he even follows the Hannity time slot. So he’s not pretending to be an up the middle kind of guy like a Carson or a Leno. Meanwhile Colbert et al. have turned the old Carson role on its ear and made it just as political as Gutfeld. The fact that everyone accepts their being grouped with Gutfeld tells you how politically partisan people perceive them to be, despite their veneer of being up the middle network late night guys.
It’s not saying much, but Fallon is by far the best of the big network late night guys.
What a fascinating area of research. Safe to say there not many doing parallel studies. In your way you are keeping those writings alive. It must sadden you to see the degradation and coarsening of the language.
Worked for 10 years with a Vassar professor on general poetry research and with a New Zealand Professor Emeritus on statistical analysis of the movement of the tongue in the mouth during reading of poetry out loud to identify the favored sounds appearing in the poetry of Night Before Christmas, Clement Moore’s poetry, and the poetry of my 5th great grandfather, Henry Livingston. Statistically, NBC fits in with the body of work of 5th ggf and NOT with the work of Clement Moore.
Henry’s work, besides appearing in a manuscript book, was published anonymously and under the pseudonym R, so much of my work with the first professor was finding Henry’s work in the newspapers NY State sent me in microfilm. For a year, I lived in a time, from morning till night, when George Washington was spoken of in the present tense. Henry’s work has much of the same psychology as NBC.
Moore was a negative and nasty man. Rich and protected by his father’s position in the church. He didn’t publish the poem as his own until after Henry didn’t come forward to claim credit. Henry didn’t claim credit for any of his work. He only put his name on his drawings that were published as etchings.
The family story is that the poem was taken by a governess who was a relative of both families and moved from near the Livingstons to work with a Moore related family in the south, staying over at Clement Moore’s on her way. He usually wrote nasty little pieces telling his kids to be good and quiet but that year he read this poem to his kids and told them he wrote it, but not to let it out of the house. Kids, being kids, they did, of course.
Henry’s descendants were also involved in the church where Moore was a professor at the Theology College. Though they were furious to hear he was taking credit, no one wanted to be the one to challenge him after Henry’s death. The family copy of the poem burned in a house fire in Wisconsin. It wasn’t until decades later that a grandson publisher on Long Island went public with the family story.
I’m the latest descendant to fight for Henry’s recognition. I was at IBM Research and chaired the professional group for computer language design, so research after retirement was just a natural. And mother and father were both poets and met writing for father’s poetry column in the building where I had my Humanities and Social Studies classes. That, too, was a natural.
https://www.henrylivingston.com
The Daily Beast aka The Dead Brain
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