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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Speaking of Letterman, i turned on his show a few days ago to see how he is, he just says a random word and the audience laughs and he stands there smiling for a good 2 minutes until it dies down. What the heck is this shit?
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Originally Posted by FRwL
(Post 9717345)
Speaking of Letterman, i turned on his show a few days ago to see how he is, he just says a random word and the audience laughs and he stands there smiling for a good 2 minutes until it dies down. What the heck is this shit?
I've always thought they were 'inside jokes" between him and the audience based on pre-show stuff he does with them. But I could be wrong. |
re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Originally Posted by Giantrobo
(Post 9714083)
Spin? Isn't that pretty much the only Demo that really matters?
Here's the latest for Conan. And a year ago for Leno, I moved ahead a week on the year because the previous weeks included conventions or Olympic coverage. Also note that Letterman had candidate Obama on that week, so his numbers are bumped a little. Year to year, Letterman and Nightline have stayed about the same but Conan has lost 40% of Leno's total viewers and 20% of his demo. Also note that Fallon is down almost 25% in total viewers compared to Conan a year ago. |
re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
I like Leno's new show, but he's got to stop the 10 at 10 by satellite, because it comes off very awkward. Half of the time it seems like the guest misses any jokes/comments he says about their answers because they can't hear him or the audience that well.
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Or you get Mel Gibson who tries to be funny, but misses badly
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
I haven't been watching the show, but to anyone who has...
Has a segment aired about a Canadian guy interviewing people on a red carpet? At the Toronto Film Festival earlier in the week I was standing next to a guy with a Jay Leno Show mic flag (dressed all in red with a maple leaf hat and shirt, and a blazer with rhinestones all over it). He kept shouting out painfully unfunny comments to celebrities like George Clooney and Jason Bateman and they'd look at him like he was from Mars. I can't imagine they got anything usable out of that, but just curious if anything made it to air. |
re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Originally Posted by calhoun07
(Post 9717175)
Leno used to do segments of something similar to "Headlines" back in the day when he was just a stand up comic making the rounds, including on his appearances on the NBC Late Night with David Letterman. In the 80s.
And I would dare say Leno's take on it is a helluva lot more funny that Letterman's. Headlines consists of showing unfortunately worded headlines and advertisements, headlines and ads with typos, weird classifieds. Letterman's Small Town News and Dumb Ads consisted of showing unfortunately worded headlines and advertisements, headlines and ads with typos, weird classifieds. The only difference is the emphasis Leno places on scatological jokes and sexual innuendo --apparently that's the "take" to which you are responding so favorably. |
re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
yeh really, all Leno does is read news headlines and that's the joke, the guest could do it and it wouldn't be less funny.
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Originally Posted by Giantrobo
(Post 9717354)
I've always thought they were 'inside jokes" between him and the audience based on pre-show stuff he does with them.
But I could be wrong. My wife and I were lucky to be in the third row a few years ago right on the isle and he speaks to the people up there and goes back to what they talked about during the show. |
re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Originally Posted by Count Dooku
(Post 9718883)
Leno used to go on Letterman and do What's Your Beef?. He would have a periodical --usually TV Guide, and he go off on (what we now call) a rant about an item's stupidity.
Headlines consists of showing unfortunately worded headlines and advertisements, headlines and ads with typos, weird classifieds. Letterman's Small Town News and Dumb Ads consisted of showing unfortunately worded headlines and advertisements, headlines and ads with typos, weird classifieds. The only difference is the emphasis Leno places on scatological jokes and sexual innuendo --apparently that's the "take" to which you are responding so favorably. |
re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Originally Posted by snoogins
(Post 9718465)
Or you get Mel Gibson who tries to be funny, but misses badly
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
The whole 10 @ 10 thing is painful to watch. Not only are the questions stupid, but Jay keeps cutting off the guests when they want to add to an answer.
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
(Post 9710578)
I have yet to watch CBS since they canceled Moonlight. Nothing this season is changing my mind either.
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
moonlighting isn't moonlight
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
OH well i guess we cant agree on even that then and CBS never seems to air anything i care for
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
I surfed by Leno and saw Pee Wee Herman. WTF.
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Originally Posted by Charlie Goose
(Post 9725536)
I surfed by Leno and saw Pee Wee Herman. WTF.
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
With real competition last night, it got a beat down in the ratings.
From Ratings thread 10 p.m. CBS: "CSI: Miami" season premiere (13.8 million, 8.7/14) ABC: "Castle" season premiere (9.4 million, 6.2/10) NBC: "The Jay Leno Show" (5.7 million, 3.8/6) However, according to this article. With just a 1.5 rating, "The Jay Leno Show" could make $300 million a year for NBC -- and probably spark other networks to follow suit. |
re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
A little higher last night against series premieres:
CBS: "The Good Wife" series premiere (13.7 million, 9.2/16) ABC: "The Forgotten" series premiere (9.5 million, 6.3/11) NBC: "The Jay Leno Show" (6.8 million, 4.5/8) |
re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Paul Reubens hasn't aged a day since the last time I saw him...
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Originally Posted by outcastja
(Post 9725728)
With real competition last night, it got a beat down in the ratings.
From Ratings thread 10 p.m. CBS: "CSI: Miami" season premiere (13.8 million, 8.7/14) ABC: "Castle" season premiere (9.4 million, 6.2/10) NBC: "The Jay Leno Show" (5.7 million, 3.8/6) However, according to this article. My question is what effect this has on Conan, Fallon, and Carson in terms of ratings. 3.5 hours of Talk TV is a shitload (and I actually like Carson's show now that it has a focus on music and isn't tied to a studio.) |
re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Originally Posted by spamurai
(Post 9726870)
Paul Reubens hasn't aged a day since the last time I saw him...
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Originally Posted by Hokeyboy
(Post 9725549)
So?
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Alan Thicke FTW!
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re: Jay Leno - Shows, Projects, and News
Originally Posted by Charlie Goose
(Post 9727732)
SO, why is a dead and best forgotten character from 20 years ago being resurrected on a show on which NBC is putting its prime time hopes?
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