On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:04 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know how good an interview the Kanye segment was relative to > Jay's lifetime body of work, but judging it simply in terms of how > good it was, I would give it something like a 3 out of 10. I was > surprised to see the Today Show gang going ape shit over it this > morning, and I have seen several other media sites agreeing with > Kevin, but I thought it was really quite bad.
It wasn't a great interview. It was great Leno interview. He had enough recall (or someone on his staff did) to know he'd met Kanye's mom. He evoked her memory because, with most men, mom is the one who instills a sense of right and wrong, or at least a sense of shame when one does something wrong. And then Jay shut the hell up and let Kanye do the talking. It sounds simple, but most interviewers (Walters and King come immediately to mind) feel the need to interject -- to remind viewers who was doing the interview. At the very least, even Letterman would have tried to make Kanye feel comfortable by throwing in a joke or two (I can even picture Dave saying, with his formerly gap toothed grin, "Man, it is nice to share the stage with someone else who says dumb things he regrets"). Unlike the Hugh Grant "What the hell were you thinkin'?" interview, this was not played for laughs. It was simple and got right to the point. By Leno's standards, he knocked it out of the park. By a better interviewer's standards, it would have been nice to see some follow up questions about Kanye's childhood, or even what was going through his mind a day or two before the VMAs. But then again, Kanye was there for a song, not an interview, and the time they had was limited. Jay made the most with what he had. > *The Set. I kinda blame Kevin (not really) for putting the "Tool Time" > idea in my head. They said there would be a garage door...I was > expecting a roll-up style garage door, not a leftover from the USS > Enterprise. I hear you. Maybe it was the lens they used for the long shots, but the new set seems overly wide. It was as if they noticed they had a wider stage than Studio 3 was, and felt obligated to fill it wall-to-wall. And having Jay behind the desk on the garage themed set reading Headlines made him look like the guy at Jiffy Lube who rings you up for an oil change while the real mechanics do the actual work elsewhere. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
