> I think many people have gotten used to the notion of a late night bandleader > as a sidekick, thanks to Paul Shaffer. But I think that role is still pretty rare. > Max Weinberg was arguably a mix of Paul and Doc Severinsen (still with us at > 94), and The Roots are more like Batiste in being active outside The Tonight > Show.
LET'S NOT FORGET GEOFF PETERSON! https://youtu.be/qAHSUTB5BJc On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 6:51 AM JW <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can only guess as to why Batiste is not as active in a non-band sense > on the > > show. My sense is that Batiste's creative energies are mainly focused > on > > non-Late Show projects, which is fine with me. Whether that flexibility > was a > > condition for accepting the gig, or it simply evolved that way, I don't > know. > > Batiste has never struck me as someone whose comedy mind would really add > to the show the way Paul Shaffer did. If the outside projects become big > enough, I can imagine him moving on from the Late Show, in sort of a less > acrimonious version of what Branford Marsalis did. > > > I think many people have gotten used to the notion of a late night > bandleader > > as a sidekick, thanks to Paul Shaffer. But I think that role is still > pretty rare. > > Max Weinberg was arguably a mix of Paul and Doc Severinsen (still with > us at > > 94), and The Roots are more like Batiste in being active outside The > Tonight > > Show. > > I don't remember whether Late Night was originally forbidden from having a > sidekick as one of Carson's conditions, but I recall that one reason for > hiring Paul was that he had comedy chops in addition to being a superb > musician. > > Hosts often need someone to play off of, whether it's a sidekick like Ed > McMahon or Andy Richter, a bandleader like Paul Shaffer or (post-Andy) Max > Weinberg, Guillermo, or Wally the Cue Card Guy for Seth Meyers. Colbert > seems to use either the audience or himself, and that's not as good. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKSNnOFMiD2VSpWFEw8cLbsHXWx0esvNFvQZc10aP0tQ%3DM_KYw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKSNnOFMiD2VSpWFEw8cLbsHXWx0esvNFvQZc10aP0tQ%3DM_KYw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1BqEpm16vAxA1v%2B3wFZLup-vG74_MA01FUDQwto%2B3g_33w%40mail.gmail.com.
