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.

That's true, but Leno routinely killed Dave and Nightline in both the demo and total viewers and Conan's demo lead has been narrowing week to week.

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.

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.

Or you get Mel Gibson who tries to be funny, but misses badly

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.

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.

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.

I think that might be part of it.
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.

Actually, not all of the headlines have sexual innuendo. The "take" I am responding to is he injects some humor in the reading of them and often has funny comments to add. Letterman makes some odd guttural noise or repeats a word or two like ten times and Paul cackles some kind of mock laughter.

I liked his goofyness, he was waaay better than the other snooze inducing 10/10 guests.

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.

Well well well. FInally we can agree on something. Moonlightling may be the only good show ever on CBS,

moonlighting isn't moonlight

OH well i guess we cant agree on even that then and CBS never seems to air anything i care for

I surfed by Leno and saw Pee Wee Herman. WTF.

So?

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.

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)

Paul Reubens hasn't aged a day since the last time I saw him...

This is a show that needs a lead-in. The big thing on monday was that its lead-in, Heroes, only had 5.8m viewers from 9 - 10, and you can rest assured that cost them a boatload more than Leno's show.

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.)

but to be fair, it was the back of his head in a darkened theatre

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?

Alan Thicke FTW!

I didn't see the show, but Pee Wee Herman is back. Reubens is doing a live PWH show in L.A. for a few weeks sometime soon.