Scheduled tonight: Comedian Richard Lewis, and actress Amber Valetta from "The Spy Next Door".
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NBC's Ass is Showing
Consider the following scenario, if you will: in 1992, NBC gives “The Tonight Show” to David Letterman, as Johnny Carson would have wished. What happens next?
Does CBS go get Jay Leno? Would they or another network have tried to sign Arsenio Hall away from his syndication deal to a multi-year network situation? Might they have done nothing at all?
Would a potential Letterman/O’Brien late night double play dominated the ratings for the last 18 years on NBC? Would O’Brien have eventually left for another network anyway?
Who knows? Nevertheless, if you ask me, NBC made a huge mistake. In 1992, that is, by not going with David Letterman in the first place. They let him go over to CBS, and CBS gave him his own production deal, and so he owns his own (and Craig’s) show—therefore, if CBS decided they didn’t want him anymore, he could take the show elsewhere (not the studio, perhaps). NBC made a mistake then.
They made a mistake in 2004 in trying to appease O’Brien and get him to stay with the Peacock, by putting in a grandfather clause to push Jay out of The Tonight Show, when Jay wasn’t ready to quit, and it was still a ratings leader.
They made a mistake in 2008, by trying to appease Leno and get him to stay with the Peacock, by creating some ridiculous schematic to put him on at 10pm, so he wouldn’t go to another network and dilute ratings there.
While NBC burns in their mistakes, Letterman and Ferguson are fiddling. Now, they’re the ratings leader. I bet NBC would love to have a duo like that. Oh, wait…they did, until they fucked it up! Now, all they have is two pissed off funny men, and the potential to piss off one more.
As for Carson Daly? Who gives a shit? Nobody watches that show.
If for nothing else, the Late Night Meta Wars have made late night much more creative and funnier across the board…except for Carson Daly.
One question that remains to be answered: how does the programming chief of NBC still have a job after all of this failure? When a man with a Scottish accent is kicking your ass, you have to wonder what is up with your network, and how you manage to keep your job, bucko.
And as for what NBC should replace their current late night crop with, should both Leno and O'Brien leave?
Poker. After. Dark.
Previously, on Late Late Show:
Wavey Rancheros...maybe he should take over The Tonight Show?
Craig weighs in on Late Shift II, and Simon bidding adieu.
And he reads your emails, padre.
There is a sequel to Wall Street in the works, and Carey Mulligan's in it.
Paula Poundstone is back doing stand-up, I see.
Me enteré de que la NBC está lleno de mierda.