On 14 May 2008 16:29:07 -0400, nebusj-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Joseph Nebus) wrote:
>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?
The obvious answer will be: Jay Leno, unless contractually prohibited.
Leno didn't get the Tonight Show by being a great entertainer; he got
it because he and Leno's manager Helen Kushnick stabbed Carson in the
back. Once Carson was gone, Leno and Kushnick blacklisted anyone who
appeared on any other talk show but The Tonight Show. When word
spread, Leno dumped her faster than Obama dumped his pastor. So it
will be nice to watch Leno bomb, without the Tonight Show to use as a
crutch.
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