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NBC’s Rising Leno Dominates Kimmel and Letterman
Variety ^ | 7/8/13 | Rick Kissell

Posted on 07/08/2013 11:41:37 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55

He’s a little more than six months away from passing the “Tonight Show” baton — again — but Jay Leno is very much still on his game ratings-wise.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: comedy; jayleno; late; nbc; night; tonightshow
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To: ConservativeMan55

Gee...didn’t NBC try this once before? Leno was #1 in the ratings, but the network wanted someone who would appeal to a younger, hipper demographic. And we know how that worked out.

Now, they’re going to do it again. Except this time, NBC won’t have Leno around to bail them out. A lot of people think that Jay will sign with Fox and launch another late night talk show in about a year. That will just about finish NBC; “Today” and “Tonight” are their cash cows, and the morning show is now #2 behind Good Morning America, and that decline is costing them millions a year. If Fallon tanks in the 11:30 slot (a virtual certainty), then NBC will lose at least 1/3 of its advertising revenue.


41 posted on 07/08/2013 1:52:48 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: wbill

Exactly. About that exact time I was in college and I remember my RA (dorm monitor) knocking on my door telling me I had to pipe down because I was laughing so loud.

Last I heard of Letterman continues to simply yell at Conservatives to get off his lawn!


42 posted on 07/08/2013 2:06:52 PM PDT by Obadiah (Inside of every Liberal beats the heart of a fascist yearning to reveal their true nature.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

That’s my take as well. As soon as Leno began to spoof “the one” is immediately when his ratings started to rise significantly. Coincidence?


43 posted on 07/08/2013 2:08:40 PM PDT by Obadiah (Inside of every Liberal beats the heart of a fascist yearning to reveal their true nature.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Letterman had always made me run for the Lysol.

When Leno leaves, I won’t be watching late night shows. Accidentally had on Kimmel’s monologue the other night and can’t remember who he was ranting about but do remember the person didn’t deserve it. He was disgusting.


44 posted on 07/08/2013 2:11:30 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

It isn’t that Leno is so good but rather that late night talk is so damn bad.


45 posted on 07/08/2013 2:13:12 PM PDT by upsdriver ( Palin/West '16)
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To: ConservativeMan55

The only thing liberal network executives and newspaper owners have proven to be good at is losing their audiences.

Day after day, year after year, the decline has been constant. The only thing left is for companies like NBC and the New York Times to lose so much revenue, they go bankrupt.

Then Fox News and the Koch brothers can pick up the pieces and create better journalism.


46 posted on 07/08/2013 2:19:13 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: Lancey Howard
Very good, The only problem is that Morrison died two years before Fallon was even born! Is this edgy or even relevant?
47 posted on 07/08/2013 2:25:57 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: mc5cents

Letterman was funny early on only when he was using comedy bits stolen from Steve Allen during the first Tonight Show back in the 1950s.


48 posted on 07/08/2013 2:31:16 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Fallon is talented but his transparent appeasement of blacks is tiresome.

isn’t the entire Hollywood, Washington dc, media just an appeasement of minorities period?


49 posted on 07/08/2013 2:56:02 PM PDT by willywill
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To: Jim from C-Town

I bought my first Doors LP in 1967, and have always been a huge Doors fan. I still love that music. Fallon’s impersonation floored me. ‘Reading Rainbow’... hilarious (to me, at least).


50 posted on 07/08/2013 3:55:27 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Great job, Jay.

Thanks ConservativeMan55.


51 posted on 07/08/2013 4:24:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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