Lousy Leno

[annuin]

Watched Jay Leno last night. That really is a shit tv show (if I watch late night talk it's Letterman, not Leno, and that's rarely). They don't start with the interviews, which last all of say 5 minutes each, until after a half hour of Leno doing self-serving wanking. He does this lengthy opening monologue which is generally filled with lame and crap jokes, which would get him booed off stage in any comedy club. Bleh, that was mostly a waste of time.

Letterman is much funnier, and he also spends more time actually talking to his guests, rather than the three or so questions each that Nicole Kidman and Orlando Bloom answered. At least I know not to actually tune in for the first 20-25 minutes on Monday for Leno's Jude Law interview.

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[onetime75.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but Leno is the man. Letterman is getting lame in his old days, and his guests have not been that great lately. Leno also has the best skits, and the Headlines rule. later

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Leno might have better guests, but he underuses them. And his jokes are just crap in comparison to proper comedians.

*shrug*

It's not the first time I've seen his show, but it's the first time I've actually bothered to watch most of it, and I was grossly underwhelmed by him.

[lunamoth42.livejournal.com]

Was it me, or was Orlando absolutely stoked to be sitting next to Nicole? I mean, he looked at her while he talked more than Jay or the audience. Just the feeling I got.

I can't believe Jay asked him about his back injury. Doesn't everybody already know every dark detail of that?

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess it's polite to face people to talk to them, but yes, he did look at her a lot. Can't blame him ;) Plus you can't really look at the audience much, lord only knows how embarrassing those screaming girlies can get... and between Jay and Nicole, Nic wins hands down ;)

And yeah, that whole back injury thing was a fairly useless topic of conversation. I'd hoped to hear more about upcoming projects, stuff he's filming or just finished filming, that kind of thing.

Ditto with the conversation with Nicole where he was fishing around after relationship rumours and some crap about her getting another job... yeah the part where she's mentioned she might eventually stop acting was interesting, but it didn't need to be dragged out that much, nor did it need to be punctuated by such "jokes" as saying she didn't have any skills.

Hence why I find Letterman a better interviewer, he spends more time talking to them in the first place, and with better questions.

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[daskreestof.livejournal.com]

But Letterman really is a superior comedian and interviewer. If you were at a party, and you had to choose which table to sit at, you know Letterman's table is gonna be the cool one, even if it is less crowded.

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[tanthe.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Leno commands an audience in his own right, I just think most of his jokes are extremely lame and unfunny. Which is pretty pathetic when you consider they have writers for that kind of thing. Plus in a 1 hour show I don't think it's necessary to have an opening monologue that lasts the better part of the first half hour, with subsequently pretty much the space between two ad breaks for a single guest.

It's The Tonight Show with Leno, not the Leno Show.