April 19, 2026

Late-Night Talk with Fard Muhammad: Carson Curtains, Streaming, SNL UK, Lorne Michaels, Leno vs. Letterman, and Colbert’s Cancellation

Late-Night Talk with Fard Muhammad: Carson Curtains, Streaming, SNL UK, Lorne Michaels, Leno vs. Letterman, and Colbert’s Cancellation
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Host Johnny Mac interviews Fard Muhammed about late-night TV, starting with Muhammed’s multicolor “Carson curtains” backdrop made from wedding-curtain pieces for his planned talk-show-history web series.

They discuss viewing habits (Kimmel, Fallon, Colbert), the problem of monologues hitting YouTube early, and ideas for simulcasting or streaming late-night sooner, comparing it to SNL’s simultaneous airing. They debate Peacock’s delay for SNL UK, assess SNL UK’s tone, recent experimental U.S. episodes, and intro-sequence choices, and discuss whether Lorne Michaels should stay. They revisit NBC’s 10 p.m. Jay Leno experiment, alternate Conan/Jay scenarios, and defend Fallon’s Tonight Show stewardship. Mohammed offers a nuanced view of Leno, argues Letterman deserved the 1992 Tonight Show, and says Conan needed more time. They end on Colbert’s ending, alleging external pressures, fearing a domino effect toward syndicated replacements, and noting After Midnight and Taylor Tomlinson’s exit as a warning sign.

00:25 Carson Curtain Backdrop
04:28 Late Night vs Streaming
07:56 SNL UK Release Frustrations
10:49 SNL Hosts and Cast Spotlight
14:03 Lorne Michaels Succession
18:01 Jay Leno 10 PM Experiment
21:19 Conan What If Timeline
25:22 Fallon Gets Tonight Show
28:27 Jay Leno Reputation Debate
34:52 Conan Needed Time
39:48 Conan Was a Gamble
41:32 Colbert Ending Reactions
45:25 Future of Late Night
48:00 Kimmel is The New King
49:15 Gutfeld Ratings Debate
51:21 Mulaney Needed a Format
53:53 Taylor Tomlinson Butterfly Effect
57:41 Colbert Cost Cutting Options
60:40 Byron Allen


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This is the animal sanctuary mentioned in the February 10 episode.

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Calorokas shark media. Hea.

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Here, I'm Johnny Max. Something a little different for you today.

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I made a friend on the internet. He is for

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ad Mohammed. I don't really know him. We were just

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running around in the same circles talking about the same

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kind of things, and I'm like, hey, why don't you

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come on and we'll talk about late night for an hour.

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And that's what we did.

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Let's just jump in.

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The curtain that's behind you is just beautiful and amazing.

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Can can you tell us about the curtain and what

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it looks like and what is the origin of this curtain.

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Certainly the curtain behind me is espacially a multicolored curtain.

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It's actually just a bunch of like wedding like a

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small curtain. See, these are like separate pieces, but basically

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I put them all together in order to have this

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multicolor effect, in order for it to recreate the look

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and feel of the curtains that we're on The Tonight

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Show starring Johnny Carson back I would say between the

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seventies to his final show and in the end night.

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So yeah, I call I called them the Carson curtains.

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I'm if the people from the Cars Entertainment Group go

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after me and I'll just call them the Living Color

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like that. But yeah, that's that's pretty much the h

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that'sretty much the whole deal there. Well, I did this

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s order about for my web series I'm still putting together,

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kind of not called the talk show Show. It's just

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basically talked about talk show history. If there will the

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latest things you're having it like my talk shows and

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everything like that.

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As an expert in legally distinct content, they're probably I'm

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almost assured that if I pulled up the Carson curtains,

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they're probably totally different. But they're giving off vibe, which

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is what's the important thing.

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That's the important you.

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Know, if we if we filmed something that took place

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in nineteen seventy eight or nineteen eighty two maybe and

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they had those curtains, it would look right, and that's

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always the most important thing.

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Precisely. Yeah, I'm going for the look. I'm not going

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for an exact replica. There are already exact replicas in micanzums.

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And you know, the official curtains all either stowed away

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either I think they're either at the center or they're

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inside of a person's private collection either way. But yeah,

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but I've seen I've seen the curtains being I've seen

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like a version of the curtains being used on late

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talk shows and they go for like an eighties night.

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I see it on Fallon as well as Kimmel. And

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also when David Letterman got like some sort of comedic

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lifetime achievement of war on Comedy Central, they actually used

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the curtains to put behind him in the back because

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it was named after Johnny.

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So, if I'm recalling correctly this the past summer, Kimmel

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was doing an eighties week with the curtains and the look,

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and that is when the little Kurf fluffle broke out, right,

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and that week didn't happen. Am I remembering that correctly?

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I thought the week I thought it didn't happen because

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his band leader.

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Oh that's right, Okay, I'm misremembering, Yes, yes, yes, But

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I don't think they ever went back and did that

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week unfortunately.

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No, I'm hoping that they do that again. But I

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completely understandable as to why it was cut short, either

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because I do believe it was because of Leado, but

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it was also because his show was taken off the

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year a couple of upper, a couple of days. Then yeah,

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I can understand why they wouldn't go back to that

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just right now. They do have other shows plan and

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everything like that, so I'm sure it'll do an eighties,

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you know, through back week at another point in time.

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All Right, I'm gonna come over to your place tonight

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around eleven thirty five. Let's watch some TV. I'm going

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to move for late night television, whichever show you pick.

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Who are we watching for the.

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Current ones or just in general current Okay? I usually

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start out with Kimmel manly, because he does a funny

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and distant, a decent distillation about what's happening in the

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news of the day. I also at eleven thirty five,

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I would also turn into Fallon because I'm a huge

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fandit that's nine show franchise, and I think that Fallon

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for what he is doing and what his goals are,

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I think he's doing a pretty decent job. I do

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understand that he is not a political satirist, and so

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he is not going to be as biting as Colbert

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or Kimmel, but I would away. I would also, but

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I would I always try to tune in to see

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what he's doing and what's the games he's playing anything

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like that. He's trying to be like a lighthearted compliment

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to the likes of Kim and Colbert, and of course

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Colbert where you would also tune in as well, because

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the mobologuees are absolutely fantastic end guests are really o

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provoking and everything. So, I mean, it's tough to the

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side because of the fact that all the monologues are

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pretty much uploaded to YouTube like two hours before a

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day or live. Here on the West Coast, I usually

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see the mobologues like around like eight or nine PM,

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which is kind of which is kind of the purpose

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to get the late night or whenever I am up

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at that time, and I I try to tune into

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all three.

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I want to pull on a few threads there, especially

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with the time zone thing. I keep wondering. I understand

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how the network television business works and the affiliates business,

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but I keep wondering if there's some sort of value

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to putting these things out on a streamer at eight

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PM that I know for me, there's a much better

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chance of me sampling one of those things if they

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were live or live on tape in the eight pm

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Eastern hour at eleven thirty, there's pretty much zero chance

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of me watching and I'm going to watch clips. I

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understand that is the commerce in which we live. But

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maybe if these things were actually on, people might look.

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At them, I would imagine. So I do think that

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the especially for a late night talk show, which which

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is based which is very very time sensitive, to put

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it on a to put on a streaming platform at

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like a day afterwards kind of defeats the purpose or

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even like the morning afterwards, because a lot of stuff

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might be happening in the news between the time that

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the show tapes and the time to just see it,

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and at the time the show tapes of like you know,

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anywhere between four to like six pm on the East Coast,

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and so by the time it reaches the time it

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reaches uh, by the time it reaches the streaming platform,

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there might be something happened in the morning or something

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like that may not be accurate anymore, so that that

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might make the monologue not active anymore. Yeah, I do

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think that happened because I was thinking of having, like

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I remember posting this on threads a while ago, that

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there might be a time where if one of the

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days of the week is not really performing very well

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for a network, they may consider showing a show like

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The Tonight Show or Late Night with step Myers on

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NBC at a day of some teeousy like they do

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with Saturady Night Lot Live Now, because I really been

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performing very well for NBC as far as I can tell,

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outside of like sports events or something like that. So

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what they do is that they show is that they

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show USNL as early as thirty over here, and over

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here in Los Angeles, it's still over, it's still at

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eleven thirty in New York City, but it's shown simultaneously

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so everybody, so that everybody can see it instead of

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having us to wait until all until the show is on,

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until the show comes on, and at that point at

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like two thirty or three o'clock in the morning in

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New York when it would finally premiered a eleven thirty

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here on the West Coast. Yeah, I do think that

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that sort of that that sort of deal with very

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advantageous for SML for it to be shown simultaneously. And

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I do think that if they were to do that

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with one of the late night shows like well in

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a week, not having it to do like for every

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single day because they end with the Jay Leno Show.

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But if you were to do that for one day

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where it is not as performing as well, which obviously

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wouldn't be the day where the Chicago like PD and

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Fire and Catcher is on, or or on the days

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where Da Line is on or anything like that day,

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it would be pretty much safe. But if there's like

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a day where some of their sitcoms are doing too

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well and they want to have like, you know, like

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a special time for this like semi cats version of

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The Tonight Show or for a Sera Caz version of

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Late Night, I think that would do pretty well. That

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might intercede with some of the with the local news

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and syndi aphilias other time zone, but they could be

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able to make a sort of arrangement that way. So yeah,

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I do think that that that sort of arrangement would

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be cool. But if anything else, if they were to

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do that on the streaming platform for Peacock for NBC

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or for Now for PBS, or their comments on Lease

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but for Hulu on for ABC, I think that would

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really drive up the numbers. And if they're really trying

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to include streaming numbers on the alf these platforms here,

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I think that would that would be a definite boon

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in that particular case here. So since they're releasing the

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monologue on YouTube for free anyway during around that time

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after the monologue is over, So yeah, I do think

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that's that would be a Yeah.

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There's so many weird things, like right now we're living

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in this weirdness with snl UK where I'm seeing a

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third of the show on YouTube on Saturday night by

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nine pm Eastern and then Peacock's making me wait, and

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then by the time I watched the show, I'm like, oh,

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I've already seen this sketch and I'm skipping through half

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of it. Like I don't understand the Peacock delay at all, you.

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Know, matter do I know?

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I mean, even if they ran it at eleven thirty Eastern,

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I don't think you're competing with Saturday Night Live US

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or whatever we're calling the mothership now, like just just

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put it.

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Up, yeah, yeah, or if anything else but on like

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because of the show and time, daneously put it on

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immediately after a Saturday Night Live as already in their

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broadcast that you know, if anybody wants to see sernay

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ve UK immediately afterwards, they can just do that. And

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for people on the West Coast that would be very

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advantageous because Saturday Live ends at around like ten pm

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over a year, so you know, we I just got

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the sn L UK and get another hour of SNL

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based programming I'm right afterwards. So yeah, I definitely do

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see that as a as a good way to do that.

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What I am noticing though, is that Peacock is now

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starting to show It's now starting to premiere sml UK

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earlier and earlier. Originally was supposed to be on at

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like nine pm on Sunday and now and then that

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it was on like three pm on Sunday, and I

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think recently it was on at like ten am on Sunday.

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So they're getting close. So hopefully they'll see if the

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numbers keep increasing as they move it earlier and earlier

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by having it right after the broadcast of bethnl US,

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then probably that'll that'll be the best, That'll be the

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best course of action for them. But they are starting

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to notice that people are wanting to see sml UK

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shortly after the shortly after the episode has aired. Over

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in the UK. Yeah, we'll see how we'll see a peacock.

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I like what we're getting out of that show. I

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think it's going throughun the middle of both being Saturday

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British enough. I say that as a yank, but you

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know it, it feels right to me. So far, I

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have found it to be funnier than this current American season.

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that the that the types of humor is slightly different

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in the UK than it is in the US, I

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wouldn't stay that it's funnier, but I would say it

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is very funny. And I do find the occurrency that's

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very fun as well. Yeah, but I but I do

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see it as like it's like in the Moves Booshell,

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different comedic tastes and everything like that. I mean, you

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wouldn't have a sketch like the Bastard seagull from a

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couple of weeks ago. Uh, that's no us, that's a

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little bit it's a little bit of that's a little

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bit too tight. And as far as I'm concerned, and

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I don't think the US writers would have that would

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have that sort of common sensibility, or at the very

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least would not think that they would make it to air.

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bit more experimental with that UK. And then to be

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fair with that snel Us, the Colemon Domingo episode is

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exceedingly experimental. So I'm glad they're trying to you know,

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embrace the weird southern end, have the host and not

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have the host to match to sn L, but to

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have SNL the match to the host and has been

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coming with such a machine that you know, all you

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do is just get you know, any it's getting any

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sort of like you know, cardboard cutout of an actor,

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place them in there and just have say the lines,

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and then you get an episode of the best Well,

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but in this case they were really writing to the

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host strings and the same and the same with the

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the or the more recent Ryank Gostling episode. Yeah he

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kiggles a lot and everything like that, but he's able,

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but he also doesn't race the weirdness a lot more,

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and so the writers were I believe the writers are

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a little bit more free in order to you know,

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go from the fences of.

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The Yeah, that most recent episode was fantastic. And also

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you can tell they know that we know that Ashley

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Padilla is the next great one, Like did did they

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she's getting a lot of airtime she is.

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Yeah. I do wonder what they're going to be doing

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for the intro sequence for next season. From I've I've

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had some people tell me they kind of update. There's

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their intro sequences every two years. I'm hoping that they

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don't have this one to stick around a little bit

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more one because it was for the fiftieth niverse and

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I'd like to see that sort of iconography still there.

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I mean, obviously the fifty is gone, but a lot

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of the stuff regarding the look at the logo and

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stuff is still there. And also that intro sequence was

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the first time as far as I can tell, without

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incorporating of the clips from beforehand. In like in like

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the intro to special or something like that anniversary special,

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they incorporated not only the interior of a h but

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also cat but also crew members who actually work on

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the show. And I thought that was a really cool

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way in order to celebrate the d show in its entirety,

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because a lot of the intro sequences involved the cat

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Romers being outside and then you stay outside and neither

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they run to the studio or they're just hanging out

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or something like that. Maybe or maybe they might do

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like a bunch of still photo something like that, like

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for I think like the for a couple of years

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of the past fifth season, but ordering for anniversary season.

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But I do think that for this one they were

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able to incorporate both exterior shots as well as matching

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them to interior shots within a age, and it was

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really like this cool flow there. So I really hope

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that they still incorporate that in some way, shape or

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form for the next season. And then if they and

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if they do keep the current intro, that they know

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something specifically for Ashley so she would be in between

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I believe Colin jostin Sarah Sherman in the cast, So

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that that's really that should that should be a pretty

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uh that should be an already available way in order

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to incorporate and order incorporate an additional cast Hover because

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both Michael Longfellow and Abel and Wolden were also inside

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it also in the the intro sequence win it was

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for season fifty, but then when they let then when

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they either fired or the distant return beteen fifty one,

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that did leave a bit of a gap. So putting

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in Ashley would would be a relatively easy transition of

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red and a rather.

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Easy so you see the smile on my face. You

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are not messing around with that answer by Fred. That

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was somebny who knows about they're talking about? That was

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not a winged answer. I love that one. Do you

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have an opinion on mister Michaels should he stick around?

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I keep looking at Will Ferrell and musical guest Paul

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McCartney and a cast that's not that strong, and your

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eighty something, and uh, Tina's hanging out in the UK

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a little bit. Supposedly she's been pseudo show running over there.

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I saw a couple of articles. Maybe on late night

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or is that a good time. Let McCartney sing seventeen

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verses of let It Be and go home? Hey Jude,

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I'm sorry it would be hit Jude.

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Jude at karaoke. I had I did not realize how

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long the song is. I was up there for ten

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minutes just singing no no, no, no, no, no, over

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and over. But anyway, but here's the l I think

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that Lorne should go when he feels like he when

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he feels like that it's a fun anymore. I think that,

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you know, it's his show. He helped build it. I

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won't say that he created because a lot of it

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has to do with that memo that Herb Schlosser wrote

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out about how we Deba Shawan and Terry Knight and

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he can be an eight AGAs in thirty Rockies New

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York blah bla blah blah, and then Lauren kind of

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like adjusted to those instructions and helped make that show

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but also take care for Saul with the huge part

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of you know, forming to get to the show and

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making sure it was under budget as much as it

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can be. And so there are a lot of there

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are a lot of people who created the show, but

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Lauren was definitely the visionary behind the show. And so

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I do think that if he wants to keep on,

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you know, show running, and if he's managed to set

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up a system where he does not where it's not

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like he doesn't have to do as much work. But

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I do think that, you know, given that image worry

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is in his eighties, that there are a lot of

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there are a lot of ways to be able to

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delegate a lot of the you know, sort of more

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menial tasks that he would usually do when he was

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in his forties or fifties. Then yeah, I mean he

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should definitely, you know, he definitely has a comedic guy.

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He definitely has a he definitely has a good sense

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of where talent is. That's definitely a showcase with the

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h and as well as well as Jane Wicklin. Jane

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Wicklin is really starting to come into a run there

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as well. And I do think think that, Yeah, I

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do think that he should just host the show for

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as long as he wants to and then if the

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Dessia has to step down, especially with that catchesting that does,

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that does kind of make me wonder I see whether

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or not he feels that it's ready for him to

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step down. If he does feels if he feels that

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he's ready to step down, he stepped down. If he

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doesn't feel like he's ready to step down, he should

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just keep on going. Probably not so long that you know,

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he starts, he starts to come forget for something like that.

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But he's just but from what I've seen, he's still

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pretty sharp. So I'm not kind, I'm not I'm not

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really worried about that. So yeah, I do think that

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Lorne should be there for as long as he wants to,

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and when he's ready, then I'll then we're we're all

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kind of ready for some sort of you know, farewell

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or something like that. I just really hope that he

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doesn't like die the middle of this show, because the

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show will still go on. I remember I think Seth

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was talking a Q and A. He was people would

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sometimes ask him questions about how about what would happened

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after Louren or something like that, that, yeah, the show

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will probably still contee. You just be like, you know, oh,

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hold on, Lorn died. We gotta cut the sketch down

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by a couple of weeks. No, I do hope that.

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I do hope that Lauren exits when on his own terms,

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because his show has been pretty much on his own

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terms except for nineteen eighty five. But anyway, so.

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Yeah, almost an impossible person to follow. I think you'll

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have to have somebody with name recognition. Again, Tina's name

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gets thrown around a lot. Seth a little bit. I

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think if it's not somebody with star power, you immediately

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are wide open to the show's not good anymore. So

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and so's not up to the task. But I also

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think there's the value of having enough gravitas to be

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able to tell the network to hose off and to

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back off, whereas if there is a lesser known person,

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you're probably more prone to budget cuts. Or do we

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need X people in the cast? Can we do this

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with eight people? Do we need sixteen episodes? What if

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we only need fourteen episodes? Or do we need music?

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Or all these questions? Whereas do we.

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Do all of these? Do all of these have to

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be live? And some of them be pre taped? And

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so on? Yeah, let's let's take too long here. You

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ever saw that? Right? Yeah?

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All right, let me be a good host and actually

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build a break into our little discussion here. And I

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want to come back and talk Jay Leno. Early on

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this conversation, you name checked Jay Leno's ten PM show.

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I have a I don't know if it's controversial. It's

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not like people are debating us on the streets. But

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it's an opinion that I think that was the right

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show that came along a little too early. I think

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the model made sense. And my straw argument is, given

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current network television, if you told me you could get

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Stephen Colbert to do some sort of Charlie Rose type

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thing sitting at a desk with a black curtain behind you,

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and it's inexpensive to produce, that might not be the

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worst idea for network television heading into twenty twenty.

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Seven, that might not be, but I do think that, yeah,

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one of the major problems with that twenty ten was

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still a very very good year for linear television, and

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so to not only shorten the prime time schedule by

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a third third in the in the for a prime

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time at NBC at a point where NBC was still

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kind of the shaky in terms of in terms of

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their brought in terms of their broadcasting power at that

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point because this post Mussy TV Friends is already off

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the air, er just went off the air, so there

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they were kind of on shaking ground. But because of that,

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as well as the fact that they brought in the

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show that brings in great numbers, if it were the

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Tonight Show, this is the Jay Lenvel Show brought in

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like standard Tonight Show numbers. That is not what they

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were looking for ten pm though, I mean they were

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following like a whole bunch of other programs that were

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on at that hour, you know, going all the way

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back to like next you got mean, this is this

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is the time slot that Quantum Leap and Hill Street

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Blues and Law and Order and definitely Dateline around the Air.

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And so to completely remove that particular hour that's that

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was still pretty strong for NBC at that time was

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not the best of ideas. I do think that if

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they went to a weekly show, which Jay would not

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have agreed to it all, but they did go to

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a weekly show and have Jay to build up an

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audience with that as I'm like a like a you know,

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have to be like the continuation of the Thursday night

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comedies are happening on that time. That probably would have worked,

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and then they probably could have fixed it to you know,

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two days or they kind of the same way that

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they did with Who Wants to Be the Leonarroc When

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it first started out, it was a major head and

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so they just burned on this minute and as many

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times plot as they possibly could, because it was because

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it was guaranteed greeting at that time unfortunately did suffer

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from a lot of overexposure and a lot of burnout

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for people, and so that's why I didn't do it.

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That's why I kind of puzzled out afterwards. But we

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that said, I do think that hobbling the prime time

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schedule for NBC at a point where they really needed

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to work to go as well as they needed it to.

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00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:43.519
I don't think that would have been the I don't

461
00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:45.359
think that was the rect course of action. As you

462
00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:47.480
said before, I do think that in twenty twenty seven,

463
00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:50.880
especially now at timeslots are a little bit less of

464
00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:53.400
a factor, unless you unless you're talking about you know,

465
00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:56.400
gut faeld or something like that. Then yeah, that probably

466
00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:57.720
would have been a that probably would have been a

467
00:20:57.880 --> 00:21:00.720
better that probably would have been a better choice to

468
00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:03.440
have on the air if they if it was something

469
00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:06.400
that would be relatively cheap to produce, but again, we

470
00:21:06.599 --> 00:21:09.119
probably would want to start that out at like one

471
00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:10.839
day a week and then just build up from there

472
00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:14.400
instead of having it just be completely every single night.

473
00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:16.640
And I do think that was that was like that

474
00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:18.440
was the Achilles, smel and a JA that show.

475
00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:21.359
That One of the what IFFs I think about is

476
00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:25.720
clearly somebody's having some sort of conversation. Hey, these numbers

477
00:21:25.720 --> 00:21:27.880
aren't so good. Somebody says what about Jay?

478
00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:28.240
Or who?

479
00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:30.839
Maybe Jay starts the conversation, but at some point it's

480
00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:32.920
on the table. What if we replace Conan with j?

481
00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:36.759
Now what happens if J says no, I would never

482
00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:40.160
do that. Are we looking at? Is Conan still on

483
00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:44.799
at eleven thirty? Or does Conan get hooked and Jimmy

484
00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:47.279
Fallon gets the show a little earlier and maybe he's

485
00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:49.039
not ready yet. This is one of those what ifs

486
00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:49.759
that I play with.

487
00:21:50.440 --> 00:21:52.960
Yeah, actually that's a darn good I don't really think

488
00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:55.359
about what would have happened if Jay just decided not

489
00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:58.440
to do it, because it was always pursued that that

490
00:21:58.519 --> 00:22:02.759
question was moved anyway. But no, I do think that

491
00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:05.799
if Jay did not go back, I do think that

492
00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:08.480
he would have tried to go on to ABC and

493
00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:10.799
probably you know, get like they. I don't think he

494
00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:12.000
would go on to I don't think he would go

495
00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:14.200
onto the to the twelve thirty slot. And I'm going

496
00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:16.599
to try to do this as with Eastern and Pacific

497
00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:20.079
times can even though my brain automatically thinks late you know,

498
00:22:20.119 --> 00:22:21.960
Late Night with David Leergman was on at eleven thirty

499
00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:23.680
because that's when it was on the Chicago I grew

500
00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:25.960
up anyway, So yeah, I don't think that Jay would

501
00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:28.240
have gone to twelve thirty on ABC. I do think

502
00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:30.759
that he probably would have done what Conan eventually did

503
00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:34.519
with the George Lopez Show and just have his show

504
00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:36.960
to be on at eleven thirty or possibly or maybe

505
00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:38.559
a half hour version of that show, and it maybe

506
00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:41.440
would have expanded and then and then because Kimmel, I

507
00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:45.960
believe that point was already on at midnight because the

508
00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:48.400
Night Lane was on beforehand. He didn't switch over to

509
00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:51.000
the eleven thirty five slot until a little afterwards about

510
00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:53.359
the sake, And so I do think that Ja probably

511
00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:56.319
would have gone on into aec or or done some

512
00:22:56.400 --> 00:22:57.880
other sort of deal or something like that. I really

513
00:22:57.920 --> 00:22:59.160
don't know. I don't know if he would have tried

514
00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:01.640
to get if he would have tried to try to

515
00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:03.960
get a date job, ors like that don'ts but anyway,

516
00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:05.720
but I do, but I do think he would have

517
00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:08.160
gone to someplace else and I. And while I don't well,

518
00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:10.039
I do think that Conan would have stayed on. I

519
00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:12.319
don't know how long he would have been on the show.

520
00:23:12.599 --> 00:23:15.160
I'm not entirely sure if he would still be on

521
00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:18.240
right now, especially given the fact that he did a

522
00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:21.400
show that you know, that was completely his, that was

523
00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:24.119
that was completely under his creative control over a TVs

524
00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:27.519
and he left five years ago. So I don't think

525
00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:29.559
that he would have been on as long as Jay

526
00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:31.400
or Johnny or anything like that. I think he would

527
00:23:31.400 --> 00:23:34.119
have been on there for probably about ten years, maybe

528
00:23:34.599 --> 00:23:36.480
you know, maybe up to fifteen, which would have been

529
00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:39.279
up last year. But I do think that he would

530
00:23:39.319 --> 00:23:41.160
have you know, probably switched on over to that. He

531
00:23:41.160 --> 00:23:43.000
probably would have done the similar rept these doing right

532
00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:44.839
now you will be on the podcast, he would be

533
00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:49.039
you knowing people. And I do think that Fallon probably

534
00:23:49.079 --> 00:23:51.119
would have stayed over the Late night for as long

535
00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:52.960
as he for as long as he felt that he

536
00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:55.960
could keep that show. And he also had Lorne Michael's

537
00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:59.319
behind him, so he definitely had some definite heft to it,

538
00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:01.200
and he and if anything else, he probably would have

539
00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:02.720
brought the show back to New York, as he did

540
00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:05.599
back in twenty fourteen, and so I do think that

541
00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:07.759
Fallon would have eventually become the host of the to

542
00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:09.240
Night Show, and he probably would be the host of

543
00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:11.559
that to Night Show right now, but but I don't

544
00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:12.880
know if he was, but it would have been a

545
00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:16.039
little bit different compared to how it was when Jay

546
00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:18.319
was over there for another five years. I think that

547
00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:19.799
I think that Fellow would have been over would have

548
00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:21.599
been on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for about ten

549
00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:24.160
years and then much like what's Conen and Dave actually,

550
00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:25.559
and then they would have moved on to the Tonight

551
00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:27.680
Show at that point in time. I did feel I

552
00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:29.799
for some reason, I did feel that when he switched,

553
00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:31.440
when he went over to the night show after Jay

554
00:24:31.480 --> 00:24:34.960
stepped down, actually stepped down, that he that I wouldn't

555
00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:36.160
just sure if he was ready for it, because he

556
00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:38.240
was only hosting Late Night for only five years, but

557
00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:41.000
he has demonstrated that he was able to hold onto

558
00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:44.880
that show and you know, and maintain people's interests for

559
00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:47.200
or over ten years now, So most of why I

560
00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:48.960
know in some cases, but yeah, I do think that

561
00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:50.480
I do think that Fellow would be the home that

562
00:24:50.519 --> 00:24:51.920
to Night Show right now because he was the host

563
00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:53.400
of Late Night, and they want to do that kind

564
00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:56.480
of transition that they've always wanted to do between Late

565
00:24:56.559 --> 00:24:59.400
Night and the night show that NBC has bundled up

566
00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:01.559
a couple of times. But but yeah, I do think

567
00:25:01.559 --> 00:25:03.480
that I do think that Conan would probably be in

568
00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:05.759
the same situation he is right now. I don't know

569
00:25:05.880 --> 00:25:08.079
if he would have to have the same deal with

570
00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:10.200
serious extent that he does right now, but he would

571
00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:11.799
have been doing something more. He would have been doing

572
00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:17.880
something creative. He has the documentary says he Can't Stop You,

573
00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:19.880
and he probably doing a show. You're probably doing a

574
00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:21.039
travel log show for Peacock.

575
00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:25.480
I think you and I are aligned about Jimmy Fallon.

576
00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:29.279
Most people just I roll, Oh, Jimmy Fallon. He's lame,

577
00:25:29.400 --> 00:25:31.319
he sucks, it's vanilla. It's not a good version of

578
00:25:31.359 --> 00:25:33.759
the Tonight Show. But if I'm understanding, you're right, we

579
00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:36.960
are aligned in that Jimmy understands what the Tonight Show

580
00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:39.640
mission is and is executing them mission.

581
00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:44.640
Well, yes, yes, I do think that, Uh yeah, I

582
00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:47.279
mean I think that he is really holding on to

583
00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:49.880
the notion that of what Johnny Carson said in that

584
00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:52.000
sixty Minutes interview. He does not use it Tonight show

585
00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:54.880
to talk about serious issues. He uses it as a

586
00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:57.160
way to escape, as a way for people to escape

587
00:25:57.200 --> 00:26:00.000
the troubles of the world. He'll he'll make fun of it,

588
00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:04.119
and Johnny does as well as well as Jimmy does.

589
00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:06.440
But it won't be it won't be fighting sat time.

590
00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:10.200
There won't be like a significant you know, point of

591
00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:12.359
view or anything like that. It would rather or not

592
00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:16.119
be analysis. And then the truth is that that's already

593
00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:19.799
happening on two other shows eleven five, He and and

594
00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:23.079
and Jimmy is definitely is definitely the golden retriever of

595
00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:25.519
Late Night. He wants everybody to be happy. He wants

596
00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:28.200
everybody to feel great, the guests, the audience, the audience

597
00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:30.279
at home and everything like that. The crew, well maybe

598
00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:32.079
not maybe not the crew in some cases, but anyway,

599
00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:34.680
he isn't given that they've given a previous story about

600
00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:37.039
what was going on behind the scenes, but from what

601
00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:41.039
I understand, that atmosphere has changed from what I'm understanding

602
00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:43.359
about what's what's happening over at the over the show.

603
00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:47.960
So so yeah, I do think that Jimmy, it definitely

604
00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:51.279
takes into account that he is the temporary steward of

605
00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:56.599
a seventy year long franchise. Now, granted, Jack paul In

606
00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:58.960
the show was very He definitely had his hard in

607
00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:00.960
his sleeve. He quit the show because he couldn't tell

608
00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:03.839
a joke. He had. He did a show that wasn't

609
00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:06.759
that was from Cuba. He had John Acandy on as

610
00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:08.480
like a guest host of What I'm Mistaken, if not

611
00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:10.839
like just a part of the panel, and so he

612
00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:14.200
definitely had He was did me a lot more focusing on,

613
00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:16.119
you know, talking about the serious issues on the show.

614
00:27:16.480 --> 00:27:18.319
But that wasn't when it was a franchise. He was

615
00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:21.599
just the guy after Steve Allen and after the Tonight

616
00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:24.680
after Dark to bottle that took place back but anyway,

617
00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:27.640
but so it was it wasn't considered like an established

618
00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:30.440
franchise just yet because because Alan had Oi been also

619
00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:32.279
the show for I think less than ten years at

620
00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:35.039
that point. So yeah, I do think that I do

621
00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:37.480
think that now that has been establaged, especially with the

622
00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:41.400
longevity of Parson, the longevity of Leno, that there's already

623
00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:45.799
an established way that a Tonight show should be set

624
00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:47.559
up and the types of jokes that are going to

625
00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:50.039
be in there, and so they are working within those

626
00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:52.200
parameters because say, no, that is what has that is

627
00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:55.279
what is given the Tonight shows longevity. So yeah, that

628
00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:57.480
that's I mean, that's why you never hear like any

629
00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:01.000
sort of censored curse words out of out of Jimmy

630
00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:03.400
or out of I mean there might be from the

631
00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:05.039
guests or something like that, but that the guests can't

632
00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:07.279
be predicted there, but you will let prehere in sort

633
00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:09.240
of and sort of curse words out of Jimmy because

634
00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:11.400
he knows that's not how the tinancial operations. That that

635
00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:13.720
that's that that can be done with the Late Night

636
00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:16.759
that can be done with Colbert, you don't Kim if necessary,

637
00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:19.880
but with the Science show, that's just yeah. I just

638
00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:21.960
think that he does see him he does see himself

639
00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:24.640
as like the the person who was carrying on each

640
00:28:24.680 --> 00:28:26.400
positions of what has been happening over that.

641
00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:30.880
Let's talk a little Jay Leno. One of the jokes

642
00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:33.000
on my show is I always referred to him as

643
00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:36.400
the worst person who ever lived, because any any interview

644
00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:38.720
about Jay Leno is he's just the worst person who

645
00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:40.319
ever lived. He's eyeing in a closet, He's going to

646
00:28:40.359 --> 00:28:42.319
steal your show. He's gonna stab Conan in the in

647
00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:44.640
the back, got it? Got it? And then I listened

648
00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:49.039
to interviews with this guy, and he seems thoughtful, he

649
00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:53.480
seems nice, he seems like he's a good caretaker of

650
00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:57.680
his ill wife. He seems like a good husband. He

651
00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:01.519
seems like a good guy. But he's the worst person

652
00:29:01.559 --> 00:29:04.559
who ever lived. So where are you on on Jay Leno?

653
00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:07.359
I think I really like Jay Leno, but he's never

654
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:09.960
tried to steal this show, and I actually wish he would.

655
00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:13.440
If Jay Leto tried to hijack Daily Comedy News, I

656
00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:15.400
think that would be good for my career. So Jay,

657
00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:15.960
I dare you?

658
00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:19.920
Yeah? I think so? Yeah. But my thoughts on j

659
00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:22.319
are a little bit complicated. But I was paying attention

660
00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:25.960
to the Leno Letterman buffle that's place back in xteen

661
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:29.359
eighty two. As John Malady would put it, I was

662
00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:32.680
twelve years old, but I was still paying attention to, like,

663
00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:34.440
you know, all the goings on with the networks and

664
00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:38.839
everything like that, and it just intensely fascinated me. But yeah,

665
00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:41.799
I mean, here's the deal. I do think that Letterman

666
00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:43.799
should have gotten tonight show after Johnny stepped down. That

667
00:29:43.920 --> 00:29:45.960
was what Johnny wanted, and that was what a lot

668
00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:47.960
of people in New York wanted. But a lot of

669
00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:49.960
people in LA thought that, you know, Jay had better.

670
00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:52.640
Jay was better with the affiliates. You know, Dave was

671
00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:55.160
very a cervic with the affiliates. He would always talk

672
00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:57.759
about Gees being this horrible company and everything like that.

673
00:29:58.279 --> 00:30:00.400
And whe or not NBC made the right decision is

674
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:04.599
definitely reflected in the numbers because Leon Letterman beat Jay

675
00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:06.519
for the first two years of the show, and then

676
00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:08.480
all of a sudden people caught on to what Jay

677
00:30:09.160 --> 00:30:12.880
was doing after the the the Hugh Grant interview, and

678
00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:17.119
they never looked back. And so and you know it

679
00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:19.319
was there was a point where there was a billboard

680
00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:22.240
up on like up a Times Square near the CBS

681
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:25.359
headquarters or at least night some CDs opposite point. Then

682
00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:28.079
it was like picture a huge picture of JSA number

683
00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:30.599
one and late Night. And so Dave got a larger

684
00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:32.480
billboard that was right off to the side of it,

685
00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:35.559
s like number three in Late Night, you know. So

686
00:30:35.559 --> 00:30:39.240
so it's I mean, I I have tuned into j

687
00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:41.920
mainly for mainly for a bit of the modelogue and

688
00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:44.160
for the headlines because it's still the Tonight Show, and

689
00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:45.880
so I was so I was still paying attention, but

690
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:47.680
I was always more of a Lement fan, and so

691
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:49.559
I would always tune in for Element for the interviews

692
00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:52.039
Demi Moore for the opening remark slash monologue. In his

693
00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:56.240
monologue got longer and longer. So I do think that

694
00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:59.039
that Leno was definitely a good steward of the Tonight Show.

695
00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:01.519
I do think that would have been a better host.

696
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.440
But Leno definitely did put in the work in order

697
00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:07.559
to give nbc'son numbers they were looking for. With the

698
00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:11.440
Conan situation, I was at. I was absolutely angry, oh,

699
00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:14.480
for all these sorts of mechanations, having the show that

700
00:31:14.599 --> 00:31:17.319
was basically I was basically a rating suck and everything

701
00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:20.119
like that, and so and I do think that Leno

702
00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:21.839
should have just said, no, I'm not going back to

703
00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:24.720
eleven thirty five, that's Conan stuff. You you put Conan

704
00:31:24.759 --> 00:31:27.079
in there, You're gonna have to deal with Conan here,

705
00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:29.000
you know, and then you know, just going and do

706
00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:32.519
some other sort of show afterwards, probably an ADC. But anyway,

707
00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:35.480
because he was definitely a communication with Jimmy Kimmel all

708
00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:37.440
the way up until there was that interamous in a

709
00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:39.799
ten segment on The j Leno Show where Jimmy just

710
00:31:39.799 --> 00:31:42.880
basically said, believe our shows all you know, but anyway,

711
00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:46.839
but overall, I do think that Leno is a consummate

712
00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:49.839
stand up comedian. I will grant him that he's basically

713
00:31:50.079 --> 00:31:52.960
he's basically it's just you know, he he puts in

714
00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:54.680
the effort, he puts in the work to put together

715
00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:58.200
a thet that is like, you know, good, there's good feelings,

716
00:31:58.279 --> 00:32:01.079
stick to the ribs comedy. I've seeing him over at Flappers.

717
00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:03.640
He does like an hour of comedy and the apparently

718
00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:05.240
he goes over there like once every other week or

719
00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:07.960
something like that, especially during the I believe it really

720
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:09.920
started during the pandemic because he won a Flappers to

721
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:12.839
to You Loss Good to You as a as a

722
00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:15.680
comedy showcase, and so he decided to lend his name

723
00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:17.880
and his notoriety and everything like that to say, hey,

724
00:32:18.119 --> 00:32:21.359
the tonight shows, jay Leto is performing over flatforms at

725
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:24.519
this so I do appreciate it he that he was

726
00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:27.559
in support and also just and I do think that

727
00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:29.640
he is a pretty decent guy when you meet him,

728
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:32.039
and he was very great to his staff. He wanted

729
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:34.039
to make sure that this staff is well compensated out

730
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:37.319
after the I think after the after his show was

731
00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:39.200
taken off there twenty nine, and definitely after when he

732
00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:41.799
got taken when he left in twenty thirteen. And also

733
00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:44.680
just also if you take I remember that Don Giller

734
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:47.400
who's like this Letterman Archives and had like whole bunch

735
00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:50.440
of collection videos online. He did like a eight hour

736
00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:54.960
long series of videos of every single Letto appearance on

737
00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:56.720
Late Night with David Letterman, going all the way from

738
00:32:56.720 --> 00:32:59.279
its first appearance to right before he was I think

739
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:01.160
right after he was the host of The Tonight Show

740
00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:06.559
and he came to play, and he brought like a

741
00:33:06.599 --> 00:33:09.279
lot of original material. He would never really repeat the

742
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:11.319
joke un lessons like a really really good one or

743
00:33:11.319 --> 00:33:13.559
something like that. He'd always read his newspapers and everything,

744
00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:16.599
talking about different articles and stories, and he became a

745
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:20.039
very huge fan favorite. So I get his appeal and

746
00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:23.079
I definitely get his entertainment value. And I do think

747
00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:24.680
that if he went on the CPS, he probably would

748
00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:27.559
probably would have been a very different sort of situation.

749
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:30.519
Comparing the Tonight Show with David The Tonight Show with

750
00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:33.359
David Letterman and the whatever show that Jay Lennon was

751
00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:35.079
gonna be putting on a TVs. We was first, you know,

752
00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:37.519
quartered by CDs after the Pats Ajax show just kind

753
00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:41.880
of fled. But anyway, Yeah, I do think that Jay

754
00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:44.839
in person and as a as a as a human

755
00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:46.759
being is very good. I mean, I see, I know

756
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:48.960
a lot of comedians that just the same thing was

757
00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:51.559
the praise about him. I remember I went on the

758
00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:53.799
Dennis Middlelayer's radio show and he would always he was

759
00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:55.960
always on teen J. In that case, they're much less

760
00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:59.519
on teen Conan than the especially during that sort of situation.

761
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:02.680
But no, I do think that I do think that

762
00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:05.359
Jay is much like everybody is. It's a complicated person

763
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:07.680
and uh, you know that there are friends who know

764
00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:09.920
who know about you know J and everything like that,

765
00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:13.079
as Letterman mentioned as a drink is uh monologues or

766
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:15.280
like his death feasts during the twenty tent to Night

767
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:17.920
Show scheduling compete. But yeah, I do I do think

768
00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:21.280
that he's entertaining. I do think that he hosted the

769
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:23.239
Tonight's show to the extent that he felt that it

770
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:25.239
needed to that it needed to go in terms of

771
00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:27.679
like you know what sort of envelopes to push, And

772
00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:30.159
he's definitely and he was definitely a company man. He

773
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:32.320
definitely was in support of, you know, doing everything he

774
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:34.920
can for NBC. He was on CNBC for the longest

775
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:38.360
time with jay Leonsoage, so he's so he's definitely he's

776
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:43.519
definitely a very loyal person as well. So yeah, it's complicated,

777
00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:45.360
but I do think that that that there could have

778
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:47.639
been better host to Night show, I guess.

779
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:48.840
But who would you have given it to?

780
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:53.239
Dave was define to give its state. Yeah, I would

781
00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:56.119
give it to date and in twenty oh nine, twenty ten,

782
00:34:56.440 --> 00:34:59.119
I would have had Conan to find his Tonight's Show

783
00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:02.079
voice because he mentioned at the end of his at

784
00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:04.119
the end of his last Late Night that he was

785
00:35:04.159 --> 00:35:06.280
not that he that he would hero up a lot

786
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:08.119
of people saying that he needed to change his comedy

787
00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:10.360
and he, I think said the camera that is not

788
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:13.840
going to happen. And it did happen because there were

789
00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:15.199
a lot of joke There were a lot of like

790
00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:17.159
sketches and stuff that they wanted, you want to show,

791
00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:19.440
but they had to kind of not do it because

792
00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:22.239
it was quotes two twelve thirty five, According to the

793
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:25.039
Bill Carter book The War for Late Night, And so

794
00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:27.280
I do think that they wanted to start out with

795
00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.440
like something really like like base level comedy and then

796
00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:33.519
lean into the smart and stupid lead into the kind

797
00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:35.880
of the weirder stuff after a while. But they just

798
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.320
never got that while yet. Yeah, that's the whole thing.

799
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:42.599
Yeah, you would think network executives would know better. Uh,

800
00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:45.480
you know, I do this now my career short version

801
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:48.679
radio program director program to the comedy channels at ERRS XM.

802
00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:51.320
So I've been on both sides of this now, and

803
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:54.480
you've got to give your talent time to find the voice.

804
00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:57.360
You know now that I'm a guy with a microphone

805
00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:59.679
in the basement, I'm better now than when I first

806
00:35:59.719 --> 00:36:02.079
start did it's just reps and you figure out what

807
00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:04.960
works or what your voice is. And I did the

808
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:07.559
idea that you've been on Conan. You know what you've

809
00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:11.039
got here. Okay, maybe the show is not totally working

810
00:36:11.239 --> 00:36:13.599
right now, but you got to give these things time

811
00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:16.119
to find their legs. You had an example, Jay Leno

812
00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:18.239
lost for two years and then one for eighteen.

813
00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:21.800
Yeah, exactly, and the same and the same with Conan

814
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:23.800
at the very beginning I mean people did not think

815
00:36:23.800 --> 00:36:26.039
he would hold a candle to the sort of the

816
00:36:26.079 --> 00:36:28.480
sort of where the Letterman put together for Late Night

817
00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:35.320
back eleven oh sorry, twelve three. Her brain it is, Yeah,

818
00:36:35.679 --> 00:36:38.760
it's like it's like it's like burned in there. But anyway, Yeah,

819
00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:41.920
I do think that I do think that Conan was

820
00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:44.000
given a lot of had a lot of things going

821
00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:46.519
up against him, you know, being a complete unknown not

822
00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:49.519
really are known more as economedy writer than anything else.

823
00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:51.880
But he did have Lord Michael's behind them at like

824
00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:53.559
at the way in order to kind of shield them

825
00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:55.119
from a lot of the from a lot of the

826
00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:58.480
network machinations, as well as the fact that the cancelation

827
00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:00.239
of the Chevy Chase show gave him a little bit

828
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:04.199
of cover. The appearance from Letterman on on on Conan Show,

829
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:06.519
you know, basically saying this show is great and everything

830
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:08.719
like that, I really gave everybody a bit of a

831
00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:11.320
morale boost and everything. So there were there were a

832
00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:13.760
lot of chances, and and NBC was always you know,

833
00:37:13.880 --> 00:37:15.639
kind of like looking off of the size, see who

834
00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:18.239
else was available. Maybe Gary Shannon could and I doesn't

835
00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:19.760
want to do it, and maybe Grig Kneer well no,

836
00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:22.679
we'll put them on later, literally on later. And uh,

837
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:24.280
you know, they were, they were doing it, they were,

838
00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:26.000
you know, they were trying different sort of things out.

839
00:37:26.039 --> 00:37:29.239
But then once Conan was able to lock in what

840
00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:30.760
the sort of comedy they could be able to do

841
00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:33.159
on the show and what the audience was receptive to,

842
00:37:33.639 --> 00:37:36.000
it just took off like a rocket. And so yeah,

843
00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:38.960
and then so NBC was started, and so NBC's you know,

844
00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:41.000
and was no longer giving them thirteen week contracts and

845
00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:43.639
getting a multi year contracts and everything like that. So yeah,

846
00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:46.880
you definitely need to let the audience find the host,

847
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:49.599
and you need to let the host find what the

848
00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:52.599
audience likes as well as finding ways in order to

849
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:56.199
kind of give the audience, what give the audience things

850
00:37:56.199 --> 00:37:58.679
that they did not know they wanted to have. Yeah,

851
00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:00.519
I mean it's it's a bit there's a bit of

852
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:04.920
a given take, and that cannot be established in seven months.

853
00:38:04.920 --> 00:38:06.920
Even if you've hosted the Late even if you hosted

854
00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:09.960
the Late Night Show at twelve thirty five for sixteen years,

855
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:12.159
that Tonight show's a completely different beast, its complete different

856
00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:15.719
audience at a completely different sort of comedic sensibilities. You

857
00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:18.519
can't establish that sort of voice in seven months, and

858
00:38:18.559 --> 00:38:22.719
so I think NBC was really was exceedingly trigger happy

859
00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:24.719
in terms of making these sorts of changes there, And

860
00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:27.000
I really do think they should have waited a bit now. Granted,

861
00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:29.480
Letterman was starting to catch up with him, but a

862
00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:31.119
lot and a lot of it just has to do with,

863
00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:33.320
you know, Jave, you were switching over to Dave because

864
00:38:33.400 --> 00:38:36.119
they were they were so used to Jaden they thought

865
00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:37.719
that Corner was not going to do very well or

866
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:39.800
something like that. But also there were a couple of

867
00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:43.199
like scandals took place during those beginning months. Agone It's

868
00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:45.880
the Night Show that would not have repeated itself as

869
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:48.360
Leutterman went on to doing his show regularly. There was

870
00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:51.320
the Sarah Palin joke where he said that a rod

871
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:53.719
knocked up his daughter, but they didn't describe which daughter

872
00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:56.119
was at the game, because it's automatically assumed that Bristol

873
00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:58.320
was with her, But Bristol was not with her and

874
00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:00.840
her fourteen year old daughter was there, and so that

875
00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:02.639
caused a whole bunch of that caused a whole bunch

876
00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:05.400
of controversy. They did that really did not need to

877
00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:08.239
happen if somebody needed to just research that particular joke anyway,

878
00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:10.280
So people start tuning in for that as well as

879
00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:14.840
the the extortion scandal that took place where where like

880
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.199
his former assistant was going to be extraying for money

881
00:39:17.199 --> 00:39:19.440
and all that sort of things. So yeah, so that

882
00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:21.599
brought in a lot of viewers that I would have

883
00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:23.400
tuned in for Conan and if they you know, they

884
00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:25.039
they were still watching them, you see at the time,

885
00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:27.639
and then it brought them over to Letterman and then

886
00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:30.480
there and then, and unfortunately that they were kind of

887
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:32.840
like cut off the knees once the Jay Lenvel Show

888
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:35.039
came in and just brought down the ratings every single

889
00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:38.039
night for every single affiliate, and so they and so

890
00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:40.320
they and so the affiliate started dropping the Jay level show,

891
00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:43.239
but they could be able to maintain their racing so

892
00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:45.519
they could be able to watch their late local news.

893
00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:48.480
And unfortunately the tonight show became a casualty of.

894
00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:51.800
That you're reminding me of going back to you know,

895
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:53.559
ninety three, was it ninety two?

896
00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:54.320
Uh?

897
00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:58.039
What a weird hire ConA O'Brian was even was you know,

898
00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:01.400
you're following David Letterman, who's this guy Conan? And and

899
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:03.480
he's not you know, he's not a stand up, he's

900
00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:05.079
a writer, Like, what are you doing?

901
00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:07.519
The first week is a little awkward.

902
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:10.239
He's tall and lanky, he doesn't look like a late

903
00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:12.639
night host yet you know, now we all have just

904
00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:15.920
accept that. Of course, yeah it's Conan O'Brien. It was just,

905
00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:19.599
uh what a cutsy hire.

906
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:23.360
Yeah. Yeah, And again I do give credit to Lord

907
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:26.679
Michaels for that because basically, uh NBC was kind of

908
00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:29.519
was kind of running out of options to host the show,

909
00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:32.000
or at least to the executive produce this show because

910
00:40:32.039 --> 00:40:33.840
letter been brought all this people over in the CDs,

911
00:40:33.880 --> 00:40:36.599
and so you know, they needed to find somebody and obviously,

912
00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:39.360
you know Carson, and I believe that Late Night was

913
00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:41.480
also co produced by Carson Productions, but you know, all

914
00:40:41.519 --> 00:40:44.480
the Carson people have gone as well, so they needed

915
00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:46.679
to find somebody and thankfully, Lord Michaels is on an

916
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:50.000
uptick after after getting Take Lives and thank me ive

917
00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:52.119
and so they brought him in and he says, well,

918
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:54.039
you know, I think we should bring so you know

919
00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:57.880
that's because because they auditioned like a lot of comedians.

920
00:40:57.880 --> 00:40:59.880
I think John Stewart was one of them and not mistaken.

921
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:02.199
But but you know, there was like a lot of

922
00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:05.039
meetings that were being auditioned for the show. But Lorne

923
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:08.079
really had an eye to see. You know, this opponent

924
00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:10.519
guy who does like all these like wild antics in

925
00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:12.880
the writer's room, he could probably do pretty well as

926
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:15.760
a show. Yeah.

927
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:17.559
I also want to sing the praises if we ever

928
00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:19.320
make the Late Night Hall of Fame. Maybe there is

929
00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:22.800
one Robert Smigel for Boak his work on that show

930
00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:25.199
in SNL, I mean first ballot, as.

931
00:41:25.119 --> 00:41:27.400
Well as well as the Data Carvey Show. I'm gonna

932
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:29.440
I'm always gonna hold it candle for the Data Carvey Show.

933
00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:30.800
But yeah, yeah, absolutely, all.

934
00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:31.920
Right, let me get another break in here.

935
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:32.360
We'll come back.

936
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:36.760
We'll talk Colbert Stephen. Colbert's show ending just a couple

937
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:39.679
weeks from now. Are you sad? Now I've gone three

938
00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:41.719
sixty on Colbert, And I'll tell you why. When they

939
00:41:41.719 --> 00:41:44.559
first when they first ended the show and there was

940
00:41:44.599 --> 00:41:46.960
some some craziness going on in the country, I I

941
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:48.920
really had this take of boy, if we had a

942
00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:52.000
thoughtful man who looks nice on camera and could give

943
00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:55.320
a heartfelt speech and not seem crazy, maybe that's what

944
00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:57.320
the world could use right now, and maybe he would

945
00:41:57.320 --> 00:41:59.119
be a good candidate for higher office, and it was

946
00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:02.239
all about that. And then I'm a big treky and

947
00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:04.559
he was the voice of the computer on Starfleet Academy,

948
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:09.079
and and my my star Trek is winning over my politics.

949
00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:11.119
So I've now started referring to him as Star trek

950
00:42:11.199 --> 00:42:14.480
Ruiner Stephen Colbert, along with Star trek Ruiner Patton Oswaltz.

951
00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:18.639
So I now find myself aligned with the President of

952
00:42:18.679 --> 00:42:21.440
the United States, glad that the show is ending just

953
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:24.079
because I'm petty about Star Trek.

954
00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:31.280
Oh I canceled my my Paramount Plus subscription after, especially

955
00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:33.800
after Colbert was initially canceled, and so I was kind

956
00:42:33.800 --> 00:42:36.280
of I have not seen Starfleet Academy, and so I

957
00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:39.960
don't haven't you right now now. But I do think

958
00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:44.119
that my thoughts on Colbert ending is that it was

959
00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:47.960
it's definitely I mean, granted, it is a financial decision

960
00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:50.840
in the sense that late night in general is starting

961
00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:53.239
to not making as much money back in the nineteen

962
00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:55.719
nine linear television is not making as much money as

963
00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:59.639
he did. But I do think that there was external

964
00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:02.519
that there were external forces at play. Absolutely when it

965
00:43:02.599 --> 00:43:06.599
came to the cancelation of Colbert, and I am aggravated

966
00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:08.440
by that. I do think that when you take a

967
00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:10.119
look at the amount of money that the Paramount and

968
00:43:10.119 --> 00:43:14.760
sky Dance paid Netflix to to have that, because Netflix

969
00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:16.800
was wanting to get Warner Bugs, and they had had

970
00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:19.320
in their contra and they had in the contract of

971
00:43:19.320 --> 00:43:21.639
the initial deal that they did not get Warner Brothers,

972
00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:23.599
they would have to be paid as a soun out

973
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:25.239
of money like two billion dollars or something like that.

974
00:43:25.280 --> 00:43:28.360
Two point they and so Paramount said, oh no, we'll

975
00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:31.320
pay that. So they paid Netflix to two point eight

976
00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:34.400
billion dollars. And they keep saying that that the Late

977
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:37.079
Show is losing forty million dollars a year, that two

978
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:39.320
point eight billion dollars could have covered the losses for

979
00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:43.559
the Late Show for seventy years. So I don't know

980
00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:46.159
what their priorities are in terms of the money that

981
00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:49.000
they're spending. I do think that having a late night franchise,

982
00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:52.199
even today, even with the even with time slots being

983
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:54.760
a little bit less you know, concrete and as and

984
00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:57.039
less less of than a less of a factory than

985
00:43:57.039 --> 00:43:59.559
they wore back in the back in the day, having

986
00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:02.320
a city sure, late night franchise. It's still as still

987
00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:05.599
very very important for a network television, for a television network.

988
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:08.000
And then for the longest time it was always NBC.

989
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:10.079
It was always you know, it was always the night

990
00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:12.039
show it was and then eventually it was always the

991
00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:15.800
Tonight Show on late night, and CBS put out the

992
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:19.280
first salvo to have serious competition in the late night

993
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:22.639
in the late night date park, and so to have

994
00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:24.719
to have Colbert to be taken off the air and

995
00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:28.159
then replaced with pretty much an infomercial for Byron Allen's company.

996
00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:32.079
That that that that that that really grants my years

997
00:44:32.119 --> 00:44:35.400
to borrow phrase from Family Guy, And so I really

998
00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:38.480
I'm perplexed that this sort of thing has happened. What

999
00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:42.159
becomes under the current local climate, and it's kind of

1000
00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:44.679
the thing that we're supposed to keep a watch keep

1001
00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:47.519
a watch out for. That that that that the idea

1002
00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:50.639
that satire could be canceled or that can be affected

1003
00:44:50.679 --> 00:44:53.280
by the machinations of the federal government is one of

1004
00:44:53.320 --> 00:44:54.960
the things that you should not be doing in this

1005
00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:57.159
country year. So, you know, so it was with that,

1006
00:44:57.239 --> 00:44:59.800
but with that said, I do think that I do

1007
00:44:59.840 --> 00:45:02.320
think Stephen is going to close out the show in

1008
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:05.199
a very very brilliant fashion, and I hope that that

1009
00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:07.519
that the show will get all the ratings in the world,

1010
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:10.559
so that when the first ratings come out for Comics

1011
00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:13.239
at least at eleven thirty, they'll say, well, this is horrible.

1012
00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:16.440
But at the same time, CBS doesn't care because CBS

1013
00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:19.320
still gets the money. That's all at the oldest now

1014
00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:21.519
on fire and nollen for him to you know, provide

1015
00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:25.280
the advice and stuff. So yeah, but I do think

1016
00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:28.719
that this will the cancelation of Colbert in the relation

1017
00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:31.320
another with comics least will bring out a bit of

1018
00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:33.480
a domino effect. And I'm really starting to get scared

1019
00:45:33.480 --> 00:45:36.719
as to how the late night day part will fare,

1020
00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:39.599
at least within the next fifteen years. I do think

1021
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:42.719
that much like with Saturday morning television, I do think

1022
00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:44.920
that a lot of that the networks will start going

1023
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:48.880
towards syndicated programs for that particular day part. And I'm

1024
00:45:48.920 --> 00:45:51.119
afraid that, you know, and I think NBCD be the

1025
00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:53.119
last holdout because you know, they've they've had the night

1026
00:45:53.199 --> 00:45:56.079
just in the years and almost seventy five, and you know,

1027
00:45:56.119 --> 00:45:58.239
they've had late night for over forty so I do

1028
00:45:58.360 --> 00:46:00.400
think they will still hold on stead a muchs they

1029
00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:04.239
possibly can, but then newer executives will come in. Executives

1030
00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:05.679
will come in starting to say, you know, why do

1031
00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:07.760
think we neep this? You know this antiquated format here

1032
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:10.719
and nobody's watching it. Let's bring it something up. So

1033
00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:12.679
that's what I'm afraid of. I do because I know

1034
00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:15.239
that Felon and Myers have their contracts up in twenty

1035
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:17.800
twenty eight. They might extended one more year if they

1036
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:20.920
really if they really really want to, but will whenever

1037
00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:23.199
they leave, I'm afraid that they might be the last

1038
00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:26.679
hosts of their of the of their respective franchises, and

1039
00:46:26.760 --> 00:46:30.880
that will be exceedingly sad. And I also think that

1040
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:33.119
the same will happen with with Kimmel. I think that

1041
00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:35.719
when Kimble steps down, he didn't run a franchise. It

1042
00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:38.960
was his show for over twenty years and so and

1043
00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:40.559
so I think he did extend it for one more

1044
00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:42.719
year U until twenty twenty steven, but after he got

1045
00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:45.039
taken off the air because the affiliates were wanted they

1046
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:48.880
were disconstruing what he was saying in a monologue. I

1047
00:46:48.880 --> 00:46:50.559
don't think he'll I don't think he'll want to stay

1048
00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:53.559
as long as he as as long as as long

1049
00:46:53.559 --> 00:46:56.519
as you think he wants to stay. And so once

1050
00:46:56.559 --> 00:46:59.639
he steps down, I think the ABC will probably I

1051
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:03.679
bring Nightline back to the eleven thirty five slot and

1052
00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:07.280
against City Fallon and Byron aut one and then and

1053
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:09.800
then eventually if Nightline isn't doing as well or they

1054
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:12.000
move Nightline to like, you know, the date line slot

1055
00:47:12.039 --> 00:47:16.159
over like eight pm of Friday, something like that, then

1056
00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:18.920
then we'll send or sorry not nine pm on Fridays.

1057
00:47:18.920 --> 00:47:20.559
And then we'll start to see then we'll start to see,

1058
00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:22.599
you know, sence some sort of indicator taking over for

1059
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:26.199
ABC's slots as well. It's kind of scary. I mean,

1060
00:47:26.239 --> 00:47:28.639
I've been a fan of Late Nights as any four

1061
00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:31.800
since I was at least since I was twelve. I mean,

1062
00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:34.239
my mom would play like clips of the Tonight Show

1063
00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:36.760
on a tape that she recorded when I was one

1064
00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.079
year old, and so I would and so I would

1065
00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:40.880
listen to this in one clip of the Tonight Show

1066
00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:42.360
over and over again. She wanted to record it and

1067
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:43.920
play it for me so that I would learn how

1068
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:46.440
to spell. I not a spell, but it wasn't because

1069
00:47:46.440 --> 00:47:48.960
of that clip when I became the result of that

1070
00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:51.159
clip was every game of fan Sonny Carson.

1071
00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:54.360
So it's gonna say I was gonna psychoanalyze the man

1072
00:47:54.440 --> 00:47:57.159
sitting in front of the rainbow curtain. I mean, I

1073
00:47:57.239 --> 00:47:59.280
don't have a degree, but there's not much to figure

1074
00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:04.599
out there. I think Jimmy Kimmel stays he's in his fifties.

1075
00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:08.599
That Colbert audience, let's just half ass math. Oh yeah,

1076
00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:11.280
A third of them goes away. So there's two thirds

1077
00:48:11.280 --> 00:48:14.639
of people who liked watching something at eleven thirty. I

1078
00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:17.000
think they go to Kimmel over fallon. So I think

1079
00:48:17.079 --> 00:48:20.599
Kimmel becomes the new king of late night. And if

1080
00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:23.239
he is fifty eight to fifty nine, sixty years old,

1081
00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:26.760
if he's not doing that, what are you doing? I

1082
00:48:26.760 --> 00:48:28.760
think you do like we talked about Lauren Michaels, you

1083
00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:31.599
need a reason. What is your existence? He already has

1084
00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:33.760
the summers off, he already has a long vacation over

1085
00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:36.880
the winter break. I'm sure if he said, you know what,

1086
00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:39.280
follow the Carson model, the Howard Stern moel, you know what,

1087
00:48:39.320 --> 00:48:40.800
I'm only gonna do three days and I want a

1088
00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:41.840
guest host on Mondays.

1089
00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:46.719
Sure, Jimmy no problem take over his show. So yeah, yeah,

1090
00:48:46.760 --> 00:48:50.039
that makes yeah, I mean that that is actually alid

1091
00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:53.360
point a bunch of valid points. So yeah, I mean

1092
00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:56.239
I do think that after what went on with with

1093
00:48:56.320 --> 00:49:00.239
the FBC and everything like that, and thankfully ADYC have

1094
00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:04.719
his back after all that place. Yeah, I mean I

1095
00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:06.039
was a little bit more. I was a little bit

1096
00:49:06.079 --> 00:49:08.519
more pessimistic on that, but I think the optimism, the

1097
00:49:08.519 --> 00:49:10.840
more optimistic view is that, yeah, he would probably become

1098
00:49:11.199 --> 00:49:12.760
at the US fourth the new king of late night

1099
00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:14.920
and just become the ratings leader and everything like that.

1100
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:17.719
Sorry, the Gutfell people are going to get very mad

1101
00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:21.519
at me. Gutfeld is the king of ten PM Eastern,

1102
00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:23.559
seven West. They're going to get very mad.

1103
00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:27.599
Yes, yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm sorry. Gudfeld

1104
00:49:27.639 --> 00:49:29.800
is a primetime show. It has always been. I mean,

1105
00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:31.800
I'm sure it's been a late night show when it

1106
00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:33.639
was on at eleven o'clock or something like that, but

1107
00:49:33.679 --> 00:49:35.679
they moved it up to ten pm, and ever since

1108
00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:39.719
then it's ten pm Eastern, nine PM Central, eight pm Mountain,

1109
00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:42.079
seven pm Pacific. I don't even know. It might be

1110
00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:43.840
on the middle of the afternoon in Hawaii, I really

1111
00:49:43.880 --> 00:49:45.320
don't know. I don't know if they go back to

1112
00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:48.239
the time over the No, it's a primetime show. It's

1113
00:49:48.280 --> 00:49:50.639
a late night format, and not even like a great one.

1114
00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:52.960
It's basically a panel show. It's kind of like The Five,

1115
00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:57.480
but with the studio audience. But I mean it's pretty

1116
00:49:57.559 --> 00:50:00.360
much his show Red Eye, but with the studio audience,

1117
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:02.400
and not at three o'clock in the morning or something

1118
00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:05.960
like that. So but no, it's a primetime show and

1119
00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:08.400
it reflects the the the audience that are that are

1120
00:50:08.519 --> 00:50:10.920
up at that hour. I mean that the fact that

1121
00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:12.679
it's on at seven pm in the West Coast means

1122
00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:14.199
that any that a whole bunch of people that are

1123
00:50:14.199 --> 00:50:15.800
watching Fox News will be able to just we'll just

1124
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:17.599
be able to see it. And that's how they're able

1125
00:50:17.639 --> 00:50:22.360
to very cynically teut their out, their out their ratings.

1126
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:24.159
Even though they're saying, oh, we be Colbert, You're not

1127
00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:26.559
on the set times Cold Beert. That doesn't work. Let's

1128
00:50:26.559 --> 00:50:28.559
saying an Oprah is better than like the Rick d

1129
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:31.320
Show or something like that. You can't do that here,

1130
00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:33.519
you know, no, that that just doesn't work. So yeah,

1131
00:50:33.719 --> 00:50:37.159
I'm really aggravated by Fox's Way in order to say

1132
00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:40.559
that that's the late night show because it is now. Granted,

1133
00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:44.159
I do remember John Mlady show Everybody's in La had

1134
00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:47.760
the same format. I mean it was definitely there was

1135
00:50:47.760 --> 00:50:49.559
a lot more cloudy, or a lot more like pre

1136
00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:51.320
taped segments and everything like that. It was a lot

1137
00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:53.239
more like a late night talk show, except it was

1138
00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:57.880
more like Worth Griffin than Johnny Carson. And while I

1139
00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:01.119
would call that a primetime show, was definitely had more

1140
00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:04.400
late night sensibilities than cut Field, and so I mean,

1141
00:51:04.400 --> 00:51:06.639
I wouldn't include it as like a late night show

1142
00:51:06.840 --> 00:51:09.480
in like late night Ers group of shows that they're

1143
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:12.599
paying attention to late night, mainly because Netflix's ratings are

1144
00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:16.159
completely beat altogether. But but do see that more as

1145
00:51:16.199 --> 00:51:20.400
a late night style show. Sure than Than Than got feilt.

1146
00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:22.960
And Malaney didn't work. And you're reminding me now with

1147
00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:25.039
the Netflix as the Joe Comedy Festival coming up at

1148
00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:26.920
the start of May, they haven't announced that they're taping

1149
00:51:26.920 --> 00:51:30.920
any episodes of that show, So I assume it's over now.

1150
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:34.280
As a lot of time as a long time programmer, producer,

1151
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:36.159
and I said this at the time, the show wasn't

1152
00:51:36.199 --> 00:51:38.000
working and I get that. Mullaney was like, we like

1153
00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:39.639
to be all over the place. And believe me, I've

1154
00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:43.920
had that conversation with hosts a million times, but when

1155
00:51:43.960 --> 00:51:46.800
in doubt, put a format on something. I grew up

1156
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:50.039
in New York City radio and I worked with John R. Gambling,

1157
00:51:50.079 --> 00:51:52.360
who had taken over the show for John A. Gambling.

1158
00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:56.239
Rambling with Gambling was the longest running radio show in history.

1159
00:51:56.800 --> 00:51:59.280
And I remember John R. Saying to me one day,

1160
00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:02.559
doing this in a long time, there's a format, it works,

1161
00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:04.519
just do that, and he was right. It was one

1162
00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:07.239
of the great lessons in my early radio career. I

1163
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:10.000
think mulaney needed to have a little bit of more

1164
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:12.559
of a format on it. And because it was you know,

1165
00:52:12.599 --> 00:52:16.440
you've got Jerry Seinfeld sitting here, don't water it down

1166
00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:18.760
with you know, a volcano expert or whatever you were doing,

1167
00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:20.800
like just throw the ball, Hey, Jerry, what's up?

1168
00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:25.079
And then stop talking exactly. Yeah, yeah, And that's that's

1169
00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:28.320
among the reasons why I like the Carson Letterman O'Brien

1170
00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:31.719
model of having one particular guest talking for a particular

1171
00:52:31.760 --> 00:52:34.880
for a segment, having it to be like a full

1172
00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:37.639
range conversation. I mean, that. Graham Norton is a great

1173
00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:40.559
example of that. He does an excellent show over over

1174
00:52:40.599 --> 00:52:43.159
in England, and I know that I know that I'll

1175
00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:45.039
do that swift to that well. But at least for

1176
00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:47.599
American viewers, we're kind of used to having like, you know,

1177
00:52:47.719 --> 00:52:49.639
one set guest to be talking with the host and

1178
00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:53.440
interacting with the host. Now, granted, the Norm McDonald not

1179
00:52:53.480 --> 00:52:55.719
to be everythist and there was an actress from Meloe's

1180
00:52:55.719 --> 00:52:57.400
Place was on and Norm Groop just having to be

1181
00:52:57.400 --> 00:52:59.360
sitting that just happen to be sitting off the side

1182
00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:01.599
and he started getting like all sorts of ribbing about

1183
00:53:01.639 --> 00:53:05.599
you know, that's using the movie German words or to

1184
00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:08.639
one classic late night moment, And that would not have

1185
00:53:08.679 --> 00:53:10.840
happened if Norm was just not in the room obviously.

1186
00:53:11.360 --> 00:53:13.000
But I do think that in a lot of cases,

1187
00:53:13.079 --> 00:53:15.039
especially if you have like a essentially, if you want

1188
00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:17.119
to establish a format, you do want to have like

1189
00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:19.559
one set guest and then maybe even start out with

1190
00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:22.239
like the volcano expert to talk about volcanos or something

1191
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:25.480
like that, because unless you unless you're dealing with somebody

1192
00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:28.480
who has a great improvisational mind, like Tina Fey when

1193
00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:30.960
she was being asked about dinosaurs. I don't know who

1194
00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:35.360
would absolutely work and even then the conversation went back

1195
00:53:35.400 --> 00:53:39.760
to Lauren Michael. So yeah, it was like one of

1196
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:41.440
the It was like one of the great quotes rubber

1197
00:53:41.480 --> 00:53:45.159
reading in the or another biography there where he wor

1198
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:47.280
going on the play and said, it doesn't matter who

1199
00:53:47.639 --> 00:53:49.599
you're talking, it doesn't matter what you're talking about him

1200
00:53:49.599 --> 00:53:51.440
and talking with somebody who has worked with Warren, the

1201
00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:53.679
conversation will eventually go back to war Earlier.

1202
00:53:53.719 --> 00:53:55.920
He used the phrase domino effect. And let me throw

1203
00:53:55.960 --> 00:53:58.679
this one past you. I'm hoping if Bill Carter has

1204
00:53:58.719 --> 00:54:00.599
a trilogy in him, this will be in the third

1205
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:04.320
in the Late Night Saga trilogy. At one point, Taylor

1206
00:54:04.440 --> 00:54:08.599
Tomlinson was renewed at twelve thirty. Okay, it was renewed.

1207
00:54:08.760 --> 00:54:11.599
The plan is we're going to keep doing this And

1208
00:54:11.639 --> 00:54:15.159
then she said, no, were they still going to get

1209
00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:18.519
rid of Colbert? And were you gonna run Byron Allen

1210
00:54:18.519 --> 00:54:22.119
at eleven thirty and Taylor at twelve thirty or or

1211
00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:25.599
or And I can't say this loudly enough. I am

1212
00:54:25.800 --> 00:54:30.920
not blaming Taylor Tomlin said, I can't scream that loudly enough. However,

1213
00:54:31.800 --> 00:54:35.239
was there a butterfly effect where she says no, which

1214
00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:38.719
starts a conversation in the programming rooms going do we

1215
00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:41.800
need a twelve thirty show? And then, once they got

1216
00:54:41.840 --> 00:54:44.960
comfortable with that, do we need an eleven thirty show?

1217
00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:46.760
What if we didn't have an eleven thirty show? Now

1218
00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:48.400
that's great, no, but what if we didn't have an

1219
00:54:48.400 --> 00:54:49.280
eleven thirty show?

1220
00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:52.000
I will say that, And granted, I think that if

1221
00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:54.840
there was anybody to provide like a definitive history of that,

1222
00:54:55.199 --> 00:54:57.239
Beagal Carter for like a third book or something like that.

1223
00:54:57.320 --> 00:54:59.400
You know, it's like the late shift, the war for

1224
00:54:59.480 --> 00:55:01.039
late not gonna be like the death of late nighters,

1225
00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:03.800
now know. But I do think that given the fact

1226
00:55:03.800 --> 00:55:06.800
that CDs did not did not even consider bringing in

1227
00:55:06.840 --> 00:55:10.440
another host, record Midnight does speak volumes not to say that,

1228
00:55:10.920 --> 00:55:13.280
And unfortunately it was not the same. Nobody can talk

1229
00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:16.119
to Taylor Tomlinson. People were talking about how different guest

1230
00:55:16.119 --> 00:55:17.760
hosts that or that were on the show. We're doing

1231
00:55:17.920 --> 00:55:21.000
exceedingly well. I do think that it was definitely a

1232
00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:24.360
butterfly effect to say that they've made them more open

1233
00:55:24.440 --> 00:55:28.000
to to to removing to removing the laid show when

1234
00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:29.800
they were getting all these sorts of when they were

1235
00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:32.000
getting all the different a flag from the from the

1236
00:55:32.039 --> 00:55:35.079
FCC and everything like that, and especially from like tweetsing

1237
00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:39.880
the president and after they paid like the dollars but

1238
00:55:40.840 --> 00:55:44.639
forgot about But yeah, yeah, I Steven didn't. But anyway, No,

1239
00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:46.880
I do think that it is. I think that it

1240
00:55:46.920 --> 00:55:50.719
was Taylor definitely wanted it was. Definitely it was only

1241
00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:53.760
a Canarian the coal mine in regards to how much

1242
00:55:53.800 --> 00:55:58.679
do people value you hosting a network television program, and

1243
00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:01.360
again not blading Taylor on this one, Taylor did not

1244
00:56:01.519 --> 00:56:04.400
feel that hosting after midnight would be as neither be

1245
00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:08.119
not as fulfilling or not as profitable as sticking with

1246
00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:12.039
her stand up comedy career. And that is that That

1247
00:56:12.239 --> 00:56:15.239
definitely says a lot in regards to how people are

1248
00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:19.960
approaching late night talk shows now, because because you may

1249
00:56:19.960 --> 00:56:23.880
have said multiple times over appearing on a Carson, appearing

1250
00:56:23.880 --> 00:56:25.760
on Carson as a stand up comedian and then being

1251
00:56:25.760 --> 00:56:28.800
called to the chair, your career was pretty much set

1252
00:56:29.159 --> 00:56:31.280
practically for a lot yeap, unless you did something really

1253
00:56:31.280 --> 00:56:33.320
awful or you just went like a whole bunch of

1254
00:56:33.320 --> 00:56:34.880
bad or just a whole bunch of bad shows, and

1255
00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:38.719
like that. You could dine off of that financially as

1256
00:56:38.719 --> 00:56:42.159
well as in your career for decades. People are still

1257
00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:45.239
doing that now right now, and is doing that now.

1258
00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:48.280
So yeah, I do think that it was that that

1259
00:56:48.400 --> 00:56:51.440
the fact that somebody wanted to leave the late night

1260
00:56:51.480 --> 00:56:53.480
talk show in order to focus on stand up instead

1261
00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:56.239
of the other way around. It was definitely CBS's way.

1262
00:56:56.400 --> 00:57:00.320
It was definitely a notification to CBS saying this is

1263
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:03.960
not as valuable for even the host anymore, and and

1264
00:57:04.440 --> 00:57:05.880
and there. I'm sure there could be a lot of

1265
00:57:05.880 --> 00:57:08.320
people that would say otherwise, but the fact that it

1266
00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:11.960
happened this once, especially to someone who was as hyper

1267
00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:17.599
as high Profiles Taylor, definitely definitely what would definitely have

1268
00:57:17.639 --> 00:57:20.239
been a sort of source of a conversation. Again, not

1269
00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:23.039
believing Taylor at all, she is an excellent stand up

1270
00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:24.840
comedian and I think that she made the right decision

1271
00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:26.800
for her career as well as her fans and everything

1272
00:57:26.800 --> 00:57:29.440
like that. But you are correct, do you think it

1273
00:57:29.480 --> 00:57:32.239
was a It was definitely away in order for It

1274
00:57:32.440 --> 00:57:35.880
was definitely cds's It was the catalyst for CBS in

1275
00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:38.559
order to say what we need to rethink of this

1276
00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:41.000
particular part of.

1277
00:57:41.159 --> 00:57:43.119
You've been very generous with your time, so I'll start

1278
00:57:43.159 --> 00:57:45.480
heading for home. Here I do want to talk about

1279
00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:47.480
I think you're right about Colbert. It's more than just

1280
00:57:47.519 --> 00:57:49.840
the money. And sure it is the money, but I

1281
00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:52.679
also keep gying back to that. They went straight to

1282
00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:55.360
the show's over. There were a conversation that could be had.

1283
00:57:55.679 --> 00:57:58.280
You start to get ugly, you go, do we need

1284
00:57:58.320 --> 00:58:01.079
a band? No? So what if we tape two on

1285
00:58:01.239 --> 00:58:03.199
Wednesday and it's a three day week and we cut

1286
00:58:03.199 --> 00:58:05.119
everybody's salary twenty percent. I don't want to do that

1287
00:58:05.119 --> 00:58:07.280
to my people. Well it's that or nothing. Okay, we'll

1288
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:10.199
do three shows. Jimmy Kimmel's not on the summer, so

1289
00:58:10.239 --> 00:58:11.639
you're not gonna be on in the summer. Well I

1290
00:58:11.639 --> 00:58:13.719
don't like that. Will too bad? And we're gonna take

1291
00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:17.000
an eight week break at Christmas time and you're gonna

1292
00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:20.280
cut your salary by a quarter, and some stand up

1293
00:58:20.280 --> 00:58:22.639
comedian's gonna host Mondays. Too bad. There were all kinds

1294
00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:24.559
of the Ed Sullivant Theater. We're gonna sell this big

1295
00:58:24.599 --> 00:58:27.159
building and we're gonna lock you in a black Box

1296
00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:29.159
theater on the in the West Village, and you're gonna

1297
00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:31.239
do the show to forty people. Too bad. There were

1298
00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:33.920
conversations to be had that they didn't even try. It

1299
00:58:33.960 --> 00:58:35.039
was just like, you know what, we don't need this.

1300
00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:39.639
Those shorts conversations did happen with Seth and with Jimmy

1301
00:58:39.639 --> 00:58:42.119
Fallon for God's sake, so we Jimmy is not only

1302
00:58:42.119 --> 00:58:44.440
taping four days a week. He was taping five days

1303
00:58:44.480 --> 00:58:47.320
a week until last year, up until like twenty twenty four,

1304
00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:51.039
he and Seth Meyers he lost his band. He only

1305
00:58:51.039 --> 00:58:53.320
records three days a week. He records one show on

1306
00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:56.079
Monday at two shows on Monday, the Tuesday episode, And

1307
00:58:56.119 --> 00:58:57.719
that's the reason why he doesn't have any It doesn't

1308
00:58:57.719 --> 00:59:00.880
have a closer look at it, because you could change

1309
00:59:00.920 --> 00:59:02.920
completely in by the end of the day, as we

1310
00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:05.639
mentioned at the beginning. But yeah, they take two shows

1311
00:59:05.639 --> 00:59:07.320
on Monday, one show on Wednesday, and one show on

1312
00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:09.599
Thursday to do corrections and that's it. Yeah, And there

1313
00:59:09.599 --> 00:59:12.400
are also different sorts of like you know, the things

1314
00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:14.519
that are happening behind the scenes, you don't see them

1315
00:59:14.559 --> 00:59:17.000
go out on the road as many times. I think

1316
00:59:17.079 --> 00:59:18.840
the only reason that Fallon was able to do a

1317
00:59:18.880 --> 00:59:20.960
show for WAS. I was able to do a show,

1318
00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:23.039
one show, not even the week of shows, but one

1319
00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:27.519
episode in Detroit was because it was WAS. It was

1320
00:59:27.519 --> 00:59:31.519
basically sponsored by Ford. I mean, originally the network would

1321
00:59:31.519 --> 00:59:33.400
just say, hey, just take everybody, just go over to

1322
00:59:33.440 --> 00:59:36.000
this over to the to like, you know, Chicago for

1323
00:59:36.039 --> 00:59:38.159
a week or something like that. You know, Letterman did that,

1324
00:59:38.239 --> 00:59:42.039
Coden did that, Jay did that multiple times over I'm sure,

1325
00:59:42.280 --> 00:59:44.239
but yeah, I mean there are a lot of there

1326
00:59:44.280 --> 00:59:47.360
are a lot of ways in order to cut the cut,

1327
00:59:47.360 --> 00:59:50.039
the fat, cut the cut, you know, further expenses from

1328
00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:52.880
the show. But instead they said, okay, we have this

1329
00:59:53.400 --> 00:59:57.639
thirty three year old, you know, franchise that has established

1330
00:59:57.639 --> 00:59:59.840
are that has established some sort of dominance in late

1331
01:00:00.039 --> 01:00:02.119
It may not be ultimate dominance, but we are at

1332
01:00:02.199 --> 01:00:04.360
least number we are at least number three in the

1333
01:00:04.400 --> 01:00:06.599
time in the time slot here. We're just gonna let

1334
01:00:06.639 --> 01:00:09.320
it go entirely. We're going, you know, there's the franchise

1335
01:00:09.320 --> 01:00:11.519
that was started by Letterman, I get tee you by Colbert.

1336
01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:14.480
It ends it is over the end. No that that

1337
01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:16.280
that's not how you do it. There as soon as

1338
01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:18.519
you fore Kimmel, you know, has the summers off, and

1339
01:00:18.559 --> 01:00:19.920
they're a bunch and they're a bunch of guess hos

1340
01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:23.559
those guests as are being paid Steve as me, So yeah,

1341
01:00:23.719 --> 01:00:26.840
I definitely do see that as uh as like different

1342
01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:29.239
sorts of alternatives that could have been done in order

1343
01:00:29.280 --> 01:00:32.000
to offset the cost of the Late Show, and they

1344
01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:33.760
didn't do that. They just they just cut it off

1345
01:00:33.760 --> 01:00:37.800
with the knee. And I think that is exceedingly specious

1346
01:00:37.840 --> 01:00:40.440
and then very and exceedingly and that.

1347
01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:42.599
Yeah, you just you give me ideas that I'm sitting

1348
01:00:42.599 --> 01:00:45.079
here with my producer brain on if we're willing to

1349
01:00:45.119 --> 01:00:48.000
accept Byron Allen numbers. All right, let's lock Colbert. Hey,

1350
01:00:48.159 --> 01:00:50.000
can you work an extra fifteen minutes on Tuesday and

1351
01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:52.440
do some wraps for Hey, it's Stephen Colbert. It's the

1352
01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:55.039
best of the interviews. And tonight I'm gonna have the

1353
01:00:55.079 --> 01:00:57.480
three times I had Marty short on and just hand

1354
01:00:57.519 --> 01:00:59.639
that in and run that. You know, it's not gonna

1355
01:00:59.639 --> 01:01:03.320
be worse than Byron Allen it and I shouldn't. I mean,

1356
01:01:03.360 --> 01:01:05.360
I know it's cool to dump on Byron Allen. The

1357
01:01:05.360 --> 01:01:07.760
guy's a billionaire. He knows the business. He knows what

1358
01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:10.920
he's handing in here. But Byron Allen's not stupid. Byron

1359
01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:12.440
Allen's not going, oh, this is going to do a

1360
01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:15.480
fifteen share. He's saying, I know how to make money

1361
01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:18.639
doing this. That's why the show is evergreen. I don't

1362
01:01:18.639 --> 01:01:21.119
think Byron Allen's tell you this is cool, cutting edge comedy.

1363
01:01:21.159 --> 01:01:23.639
I think he's telling you this is evergreen stuff which

1364
01:01:23.639 --> 01:01:26.599
we can monetize and CBS will make some money on it.

1365
01:01:26.679 --> 01:01:28.679
I Byron Allen, the guy can make some money on it,

1366
01:01:28.719 --> 01:01:30.239
and that's what we're doing here, and it's going to

1367
01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:32.239
get a zero point six and whatever.

1368
01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:36.920
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, No. I try not to cast any

1369
01:01:36.920 --> 01:01:39.159
expurgeons on Byron Allen as a person. I do think

1370
01:01:39.199 --> 01:01:42.320
that the fact that that that conmoncept's downright abysmal, but

1371
01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:45.360
I do. But I gotta give Creed get you know,

1372
01:01:45.400 --> 01:01:47.679
I gotta get some props to Byron for the longevity

1373
01:01:47.679 --> 01:01:49.679
that he's had. I mean part of the Tonight Show.

1374
01:01:49.679 --> 01:01:51.480
At the age of seventeen, he was on Real People,

1375
01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:54.920
He did shows like The Entertainers for like for a

1376
01:01:54.920 --> 01:01:56.880
bull Overard dec Katie Adams on The Night Talk Show

1377
01:01:56.880 --> 01:02:00.360
for a bit. So yeah, he does. He knows the

1378
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:02.519
entertainment industry, and he's able to find ways in order

1379
01:02:02.559 --> 01:02:04.320
to make money in that industry. And he's not a billionaire,

1380
01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:06.199
and he's to water Channel for godsake. I do think

1381
01:02:06.239 --> 01:02:08.440
that he is a very shrewd businessman and knows how

1382
01:02:08.440 --> 01:02:10.760
to put together a television program. I just think of

1383
01:02:10.840 --> 01:02:13.559
the television program that's being replaced, that's replacing the Late Show.

1384
01:02:13.639 --> 01:02:16.960
It should not be that, but but what do I know?

1385
01:02:17.159 --> 01:02:20.960
But there's something about the texture of it. Whereas if

1386
01:02:20.960 --> 01:02:22.760
they just said, you know what, we're just gonna run

1387
01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:25.880
We've got twenty five years of CSIS, We're just gonna

1388
01:02:25.960 --> 01:02:28.880
run CSI Miami every night at eleven thirty like they

1389
01:02:28.960 --> 01:02:30.920
used to do in the eighties. You know, they'd run

1390
01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:32.559
old Hawaii five. Oh's was a thing.

1391
01:02:33.559 --> 01:02:36.719
I meant in between Colbert and enlightnenmen. They were showing

1392
01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:39.840
the mental illness on that in that time slot. So yeah, absolutely,

1393
01:02:39.960 --> 01:02:42.280
I somehow that would feel less offensive.

1394
01:02:42.719 --> 01:02:45.079
I don't know if I don't know why, just that

1395
01:02:45.079 --> 01:02:46.920
that would just be like, all right, they're not even trying.

1396
01:02:46.960 --> 01:02:49.880
Whereas there's something I don't know, I guess because it

1397
01:02:49.960 --> 01:02:52.159
is paid programming or I don't know what it is.

1398
01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:54.760
It was three runs of CBS shows. I would say, oh,

1399
01:02:54.800 --> 01:02:57.960
at least theirs CBS shows, you know, they're the family.

1400
01:02:58.440 --> 01:03:00.320
Yeah, all right, let me let you get out of here.

1401
01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:02.599
You've been super awesome with your time. What are you

1402
01:03:02.679 --> 01:03:05.719
up to? Where we find you? What's your deal? You know,

1403
01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:06.440
what are you plugging?

1404
01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:09.239
Well? I I post a lot on threads. I don't

1405
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know if that's much of a plug at all.

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But yeah, you're great on threads. That's why you're here,

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That's why. That's where I found you. I'd never talked

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to you till seventy minutes ago, and you're gratefully fine.

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Thank you, thank you so much. But yeah, so I'm

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Obiro on threads. My user name, my name is spelled weird,

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so it's f A R D m U h A

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M M A D. And you can also find me there.

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You can also find me on the name on on Instagram,

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not on Facebook. It's under mister f It's m R

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F A r D blah blah blah. And uh, you know,

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I I do have a YouTube channel and I'm trying

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to put together episodes of the talk show show. I

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have two shorts and I also filmed something regardless about

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Letterman and Linto appearing in that appearing in that Late

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show commercial. That's something you thought it was as commercial

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or something like that. I still need to edit TI me.

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I need to be shooting and I don't know, but

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but yeah, you just find me on YouTube is under

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w TFG seventy eight. I'm trying to make it look

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like a YE station or something like that. And yeah,

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I mean you might see me in like comedy clubs

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and then Los Angeles as an audience member. You know,

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you just listen for my laugh or something like that. Also,

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you could probably find the video of me lashing on

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Conan the audience there on my YouTube channel as well.

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I thought that was a really cool experience. We could

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talk about that another time.

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And that was always my thing. If I went to

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see a taping of Late Night with Letterman, I would

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make sure I was the last person clapping. The last

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clap was always meds. All right, I'll let you go.

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I'm sure I will invite you back since we can

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clearly talk for hours.

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Thank you, free time, great chatting, Willia, all right, by bye,