Farewell Conan

Well, it's finally over.

After only 7 months of hosting the Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien is gone. I know I've said before that I'm more of a Leno fan, but this was a pretty lousy situation overall. I don't understand how NBC can give someone a show, especially the Tonight Show, for 7 months and then basically boot them off.

Conan's a smart, genuine, and hilarious guy and I am very sure we will see him or his work in the very near future.

But for now, he's a Free Bird (ha!)

Best of luck man.

Jay vs Conan

I'm sure by now most people have heard at least something about this whole NBC, Jay Leno, and Conan O'Brien thing going on. Basically, after a few months of Conan running "The Tonight Show" and Jay being moved down to 10:00 to host his own "Jay Leno Show", ratings for both shows have gone down. CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman" is beating NBC's "Tonight Show" and NBC is looking to do a little rearranging.

According to the Chicago Tribune,one solution would be to move Jay's show to 10:35 (for half an hour) and move the Tonight Show down to 11:05. A separate article from the Associated Press mentioned that:

NBC's contract with O'Brien reportedly allows the network to move "Tonight" to 12:05 a.m. EST but no later, at the risk of substantial financial penalties.

, which could also provide Leno with another spot (possibly 11:05?).

Yet another possibility, mentioned in the same article, is that NBC does away with Conan altogether, moves Jay back to the "Tonight Show", and Conan possibly gets picked up by Fox.

All this talk about time changes and shows moving around may bring about another issue that hasn't been addressed (at least to my knowledge), What will happen to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon or even Last Call with Carson Daly? It seems like there hasn't been any mention of what would happen to the time slots for these shows. There won't be an issue unless the other shows get pushed back to later slots but if they do, who is going to stay up until 3am or later every night watching these shows?

I don't have a solution; it just looks like NBC is sort of screwing things up here. I will say this though, I'm a fan of almost all late night TV (although it hasn't been that great in a while), but I've always been a Leno guy myself. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.

oh yeah. What's up Ludwig?

(photo from NY Post)

I Love Late Night Television

Over the past year or so I have grown to absolutely love late night television. No, no I'm not talking about Infomercials or what's on HBO (real sex, taxicab confessions, is that even still on?) or that little transition when Cinemax becomes Skinemax... I think I'm digging myself a bit of a hole here, anyway I digress. I'm talking about the late night talk shows; Leno, Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Conan O'Brien, and Craig Ferguson. Sure I like some of the hosts a bit more than others but over time they have all grown on me. For example, when Jimmy Fallon first started off, I thought he was horrible, but as he has continued on over the last few months I feel he has gotten a bit more comfortable. Additionally I've realized that Craig Ferguson, who I don't get to watch all that much, is absolutely hysterical.

Sure each host has their strengths and weaknesses. I'm partial to Leno (I don't even know why) but I appreciate Letterman's wit and sarcasm . I don't watch Jimmy Kimmel all that much but he isn't too bad either and Conan is growing on me as well.

All these guys are entertaining and because they are on everyday, they are always current and on top of the "news" of the day. This is sort of lame but from seeing them so often, I feel like I actually know them, like the viewer actually sees how these hosts are in real life ( Sure I could be completely wrong) Also, they can at least give me a good laugh before I go to bed at night and for that, I'm grateful.

God bless Late Night TV.

You can check out all the current episodes of the shows online.

The Tonight Show with Lay Leno (Jay is finished but is starting a new show soon)
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Late Show with David Letterman
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Oh yeah, and you can't forget your old pal Carson (sorry not Johnny)

Last Call with Carson Daly

The Takeover ( The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien)

Last night was Conan O'Brien's debut as the host of The Tonight Show, replacing Jay Leno who was the show's host for 17 years. Don't worry though, Jay will be back soon enough with his own show that will air on weeknights at 10:00. Apparently, according to "critics" (what the hell do they know anyway?) Conan's debut was met with some mixed reviews. Personally, I thought the show was pretty good, I'm not a huge fan of Conan (I don't hate him) but I thought it was a fairly solid debut. Some of the "sketches", which were more like full montages were a bit long but they had some high points as well. Also, the show's first guest, Will Ferrell, was funny as usual. One negative thing I must say is that Pearl Jam's performance at the end of the show was HORRIBLE. They had a huge amount of energy but I thought they sounded awful (was it just me?).

Anyway, I wish Conan good luck on his new show. I'm sure he will do a good job (but in my opinion not better than Jay) and have many memorable moments on the show in the years to come. Good luck.

Check out some clips from the show HERE. Also the full episode should be up pretty soon as well.

Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

Well, last night marked the first episode of "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon". It was sort of weird not seeing Conan (besides the opening skit) but the show was overall...eh, alright. I'm more of a Jay Leno fan. But anyway It was pretty cool that Robert DeNiro was the first guest but I could have definitely done without Justin Timberlake being there. I also don't know how i feel about the "lick it for 10" game in which audience members are brought onset and convinced to lick various objects for 10 bucks. Kind of hilarious actually. Despite that, some highlights for me were certainly the fact that The Roots are the house band. That in of itself made me want to watch the show. Secondly, was the musical guest which was Van Morrison. Pretty cool as well. I don't really know if I can form an opinion after just one show so I'll have to see how Jimmy progresses. He looked pretty nervous (but doesn't he always?) but hopefully after a couple weeks he get used to it. I guess we'll just have to see.

The first episode is already on NBC.com so go HERE to check it out for yourselves.