first@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
>Pray Fallon doesn't become another Shabby Chapped, uh, Chevy Chase.
You know, that's not a bad thing to wonder about. Part of
what helped Conan through the roughest first months was the debut a
week earlier of the Chevy Chase Show, which was *so* catastrophic
that it took heat off of Conan. People had a much bigger, much more
Chevy Chase-ish target for their scorn while Conan was figuring out
how to make things like Actual Items or Veteran's Day Carols work.
Raising the question: is it likely that Jimmy Fallon will
have the benefit of any sacrificial lambs in early fall 2009 when
he, I presume, takes over Late Night? That's over a full season
ahead, I admit, but if, like, Fox is planning to break into a new
late-night talk show they'd probably be trying to put something
together now.
And who would be the right Chevy Chase for Fallon? Somebody
reasonably familiar and not obviously wrong for a talk show position
and yet whose once-formidible comic talent had somehow eva****ated
over the preceding years?
--
Joseph Nebus
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