Posted on 06/10/2009 11:02:26 AM PDT by lewisglad
They been pushing Conan hard too
This means that the chance of CBS publicly condemning what Letterman said about Palin and her children is now officially ZERO. Letterman will probably get a bonus.
Don’t watch any of them. And Julia Roberts is trying to resurrect a stalled career. So who the heck cares about the H’weirdo types.
You have to give this sort of thing a full year before drawing any conclusions. Leno as I recall lost early to Letterman...then dominated the ratings war between them for the next...14 years?
Letterman is using Palin to climb the ratings totem pole, disgusting.
correct, Leno started winning after he put the audience closer and made it more of a ‘comedy club’ format which is his strong point.
NEVER use Letterman and climbing a pole in the same sentence, please!!
Julia Roberts hasn’t opened a big picture in years!
Letterman and O’Brien are both trashy A—holes!
The key for Conan, is Andy Richter, if they can recapture what they had on the old Late Night with Conan show, then I think it will eventually overtake Letterman.
Andy was hilarious, I say put him back on the couch like Ed McMahon.
Women don’t like him because he’s creepy looking and has NO sexuality. Young guys are his target audience and the ones who like him are already watching. NBC continues to screw the pooch.
You think Conan’s ratings are bad now? Wait until Leno’s new show debuts.
Letterman is scum.
there’s rumours that Jay will have to defer to Conan on the best guests (because of the NBC contract restrictions)
This leaves him with some percentage of the late night crowd who have watched him for the last few years and will follow him earlier to the Tonight Show. But it won't be 100%, and that's a (relatively) small number of viewers.
I’d say ‘the key’ is getting the opening monologue ‘right’. Thats always been THE STAPLE, the ‘connection’ between the four previous hosts from Parr forward.
Once Leno ‘got it’ he destroyed Letterman for well over a decade.
Leno is the only one who does funny monologues, but who watches any of these guys after the first 5 minutes?
I'd rather watch Vince from ShamWow.
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