Your Guide to the Late Night
If you've been following the kerfuffle over at NBC regarding their 10 PM prime time and late night programming, well then you too must read the HuffPo.* I think an overview of the cast of characters is helpful.
Jay Leno -- Ex Officio Member of the Homeowners' Association. Former Chairman. Unfunny. Egomaniac. He has two remotely amusing bits: Headlines and Jay walking. Neither of those funny bits requires any humor on Leno's part. Just rebroadcasts the stupidity of the masses. Failblog is a lot funnier.
NBC (as played by current CEO of NBC-Universal Jeff Zucker). Contrary to the Princeton-grad, self-assured, and devilishly handsome Jack Donaghy (see starting at 13:00 mark of this), Zucker is more like the battered spouse who just can't stand up to Leno and say "no more."
Conan O'Brien -- sarcastic, smart, and funny child of Leno and NBC. The parents' troubles at home have repeatedly stifled the growth of his genius mind, though he was the graduation speaker. As a child prodigy, he gave the world "Homer Goes to College" and "The Monorail." It's time he left the abusive household and went on to greener pastures.
David Letterman -- Ran for the chairman position against Leno, but lost. Relishes the fight in his neighbor's household.
The Viewers -- Long ago realized that cable has by far the better, more original programming.
*Donaghy: "Way to tell me something I already knew. What are you, The Huffington Post?"
Jay Leno -- Ex Officio Member of the Homeowners' Association. Former Chairman. Unfunny. Egomaniac. He has two remotely amusing bits: Headlines and Jay walking. Neither of those funny bits requires any humor on Leno's part. Just rebroadcasts the stupidity of the masses. Failblog is a lot funnier.
NBC (as played by current CEO of NBC-Universal Jeff Zucker). Contrary to the Princeton-grad, self-assured, and devilishly handsome Jack Donaghy (see starting at 13:00 mark of this), Zucker is more like the battered spouse who just can't stand up to Leno and say "no more."
Conan O'Brien -- sarcastic, smart, and funny child of Leno and NBC. The parents' troubles at home have repeatedly stifled the growth of his genius mind, though he was the graduation speaker. As a child prodigy, he gave the world "Homer Goes to College" and "The Monorail." It's time he left the abusive household and went on to greener pastures.
David Letterman -- Ran for the chairman position against Leno, but lost. Relishes the fight in his neighbor's household.
The Viewers -- Long ago realized that cable has by far the better, more original programming.
*Donaghy: "Way to tell me something I already knew. What are you, The Huffington Post?"
Labels: Television
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 3:05 PM
1 Comments:
The fundamental problem here is that Conan caters to young people. But young people don't watch late local news broadcasts, which dovetails into late night TV. Because we get everything off the internet. And old people - they like Letterman because he's like them.
That, and moving late night to prime time was the dumbest idea since making a reality TV show about CEOs who take everyday jobs in their companies. Wait, did I just get that backwards?
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