allbell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Apr 29, 12:52 am, fi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Re****ts: Fallon to succeed Conan on 'Late Night'
>> By FRAZIER MOORE =96 4 days ago
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>> NEW YORK (AP) =97 Jimmy Fallon appears to be inching closer to Conan
>> O'Brien's "Late Night" chair.
>Jimmy Fallon might be a wonderful guy, and I hope this works out
>really well for him. I hope he gets high ratings and a lot of money
>and every possible wonderful thing.
Well, yeah, the only reasons to hope for anything but reasonble
success would be if one expects that a supposed Fallon failure would
open access for someone of greater talent, or if it would give folks
from his show credentials useful for later work.
>But, to me, the problem with this pick is that Fallon is very nice,
>but he just seems like a nice, charming guy.
As my participation in this thread may suggest, he hasn't
really made much of an impressionon me, but I'm out of the range of
people who regularly watch Saturday Night Live, it seems.
>In contrast, Stephen Colbert and Conan O'Brien come off as Batman type
>guys who have a lot of intelligent, conflicted, savagely realistic
>brooding going on behind their smiles. In my opinion, Late Night would
>be more interesting after Conan leaves if Conan's successor were more
>like Batman and less like Robin.
I wonder if Fallon will develop a more interesting public
persona the closer he gets to appearing nightly. After all, you just
can't blather on for 210 minutes a week if you lack all distingui****ng
features. For that matter, after David Letterman it's barely possible
to be a talk show host if you aren't willing to at least present some
evidence of inner brooding.
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Joseph Nebus
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