On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Even if I watched TV in real-time anymore, neither Dave nor Jay would > merit viewing. I don't relate to either of them, and I don't think > either is doing their respective best anymore. Watching Johnny Carson > in his last year or two -- even though he was only doing three days a > week -- he made it look easy. Watching Jay and Dave, you see just how > hard the job really is. Despite the circumstances, Johnny got out of > the act and got out of the way for those who followed him. Jay didn't, > and -- so far -- Dave hasn't. The result, in my opinion, is two wasted > hours of network late-night each weeknight. > Of course I disagree with you about Dave, who is not only still worth watching, but in some ways better than he was at NBC. For one, he is a much better interviewer. I happen to be looking for some Beatles stuff the other day and watched the Pete Best interview Dave did in 1982. No question that the Dave of today would have done a much more interesting job than young Dave did with that. Young Dave was quicker and sharper, but Old Dave is more interesting. More surprisingly perhaps, I disagree with you about Carson. Lord knows I am no Leno fan, but in his last couple of years I was more eager to watch Leno do the Tonight Show than Johnny. I thought Carson was trying to hard, and at times embarrassingly, to be relevant and with it, and almost always failing. While he made it look easy in his hey day, by the end it looked more like some kind of 30's Dance Marathon than anything else. If anything Carson stayed around about 2 years too long (though of course he was miles better than the Leno of today). -- 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
