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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I know I shouldn't one line

[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.

Re: I know I shouldn't one line

[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.