It's waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too early for this thread. Remember the last Late Night Wars between Jay and Dave. Letterman dominated Leno in the ratings for 2 years until the infamous Hugh Grant episode. And from then on Leno took over the ratings lead. It'll take a while for the ratings to settle. Meanwhile Conan is still doing good in the demo, so no reason to pull the plug on him yet.
Like everyone else has said, no one watches them for the guests. I usually turn it off when the guests come on unless it is someone funny, but otherwise, I watch Conan for his own stuff.
is Jay really on at 9PM in some markets? if so, he needs to be taken out of the "Late Night" discussion... that said, I agree with many posters here about the original assessment based on..... what was the original assessment based on again?
If I'm a fan of Led Zeppelin, and still put out a song called "Whole Lotta Nub," complete with an awesome guitar riff, does that make it OK? He totally ripped them off, and didn't even have the tact to at least mention the influence in any of the four trillion interviews he did before the show came on air, or on the actual show itself. He's a Leno, through and through.
Pretty much. I remember the OP stating this in another thread and I asked him if he was Scottish. Carson Daly is probably the worst but Ferguson sucks as well. Conan is the best. I used to watch Letterman but I think he comes off as snobby.
Ferguson is unique. He doesn't do the tired routines that the other hosts do. Ferguson is almost like Jim Rome, you have to watch him a lot to start to get what he is doing, but he is by far the most unique late night host.
When in the f**K did I say he didn't steal it? I was just pointing out that he knew about the show long before he was a guest on it. "" around the word borrowed = sarcasm. Holy sh** it's infuriating when people don't take an extra 5 seconds to reread a post before they comment on it.
Next to impossible. Conan is slightly younger, has almost twenty years of fan loyalty, and his viewers will probably be more commercially relevant in the coming years. Don't forget that he wrote for SNL and was head writer on the Simpsons, I think he has a deep Rolodex of good writers who will help make his show work. I also think most networks categorize late night talk just below broadcast news in terms of how much slack they'll cut them for less than perfect ratings. At that late, they just want someone to fill the seat so they can scrounge up the extra ad dollars.
As offensively bad as Daly is, he'll probably be running a network or record label some day. Everything about him says schmoozer.
Ive always like Jay better then any other late night host. But Jimmy Kimmel and Conan are good as well...never liked Dave though or Craig
