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It seems to me that Jay Leno is more popular than Conan O'Brian, yet to me he isn't nearly as funny as Conan. Does anyone else think that Conan should get the 11.30 spot??!! Posts: 2756 | Registered: Jul 2002
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No kidding. Jay Leno falls regularly short of Conan's inspired comedy. Sometimes I think he's just not trying. Conan seems to want to run a comedy show, not just a talk show with a few jokes.
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I really like it when Conan and Max just stare at each other. And I also love Cactus Chef playing "We Didn't Start the Fire" on a flute, and how they do it over and over again.
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Conan's great, but Leno's more mainstream. The people who are up late enough for Conan are exactly the people NBC's trying to target with his humor -- he does NOT play as well to the mainstream audience that watches the Leno or Letterman timeslot.
Regardless of how truly funny he really is...cause I agree, Conan rocks.
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I find Conan's to be the better show, but it really hasn't been as funny to me since Andy left.
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Yeah, but his unmainstream sense of humor has landed some seriously big-time guests. Maybe it's more mainstream than people think.
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they have different target audiences. look at the ages of those who watch Leno versus those who watch Conan. He's on later for a reason.
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Leno is more mainstream...he is also on earlier. Personally, I think they make a great match...Leno on earlier, who is funny, and then Conan on right after, when you want to keep watching goofy behavior.
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I'm sorry, I know all these words, but I can't parse this. Is the adjective "funny" describing the noun "Leno"? That doesn't make any sense.
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Conan might be funnier than Leno, but he still belongs in the 12:30 slot. At least, the way his show is right now, he does. I wonder if he could make the transition though?
However, I am getting kind of tired of Conan always doing the same old stuff. When I first started watching him it was all hilarious, but now that I've been watching him for years I kinda know most of his tricks. He still plays around and tries new things enough of the time to keep me watching and laughing, but I worry that he'll find something that works and just keep doing it until it becomes stale.
That being said, Letterman's show is the best out of any of them.
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Have you seen Family Guy's rip off of Letterman? It's in the one where Brian becomes addicted to cocaine.
The real Letterman, in my opinion, is only slightly better than that. Just slightly.
I'd try and describe it, but it seems to me that a whole lot of Letterman's jokes consist of him checking his teeth in the camera or making his tie dance or adjusting his hair or showing off his lining, or maybe just hooting for no apparent reason, and then Paul plays a poorly written song (I believe in that episode, Peter asks for a little "tie music," the lyrics being, "Peter's tie, Peter's tie, he's the guy!"). There really isn't much to describe, at least to me.
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Leno would wet his pants after looking into Conan's steel blue eyes and getting a look at his mighty thews.
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quote:it seems to me that a whole lot of Letterman's jokes consist of him checking his teeth in the camera or making his tie dance or adjusting his hair or showing off his lining, or maybe just hooting for no apparent reason, and then Paul plays a poorly written song
Yes, this is alot of what he does. Norm Macdonald also did a funny impression of him on SNL (particularly his laugh). Maybe I have a deranged sense of humor, that's part of the reason I love him. He's also very good with guests. I just love all that silly stuff that he pulls.
And who's a funnier announcer than Alan Kalter? Joel Gottard is good, but I'd rank Kalter above him. And Biff, and Rupert, and the stagehands, and when Regis is a guest. So many good things about his show. Although I will say that it probably took me a few years before I started to like it more than Conan.
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I was thinking, and I think that talk-show host would be about the worst job in the world for me. I would have to pretend to be interested in all these 15-min-famers. So, America wants to see you on my show because you lost on a reality show? Get off my set right now, and get me somebody interesting. Either that, or we can go fist-a-cuffs right now on national telivison.
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