Wine
What happens when you have a glass of red wine freshly delved from a $5 bottle and you feel oddly compelled to write a blog article whilst drinking it? Let's see...
Hmm.... let me just swish this around and take a whiff... ah yes.... I'm getting grapes... I'm getting... well, mostly grapes really.
I was thinking today about how awesome The Late Show with Dave Letterman is. It's much better than The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Late Night with Conan O'Brien is consistently amusing - I imagine he is more like what Letterman was like in the 80's before he apparently 'lost it'. Lost what exactly? I'm not sure. I'm always telling people how amusing The Late Show is but they always debase my joy by saying 'Letterman isn't funny anymore. He was much edgier in the 80's'. This irritates me. Does me liking the show mean that it's all in their heads and he's actually still very funny now and their dislike of Letterman's new material is inspired purely by some nostalgic bias? Or is Letterman really not funny anymore and I'm a simple, unintelligent man with terrible taste in comedy. How could that be, though? I like the Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm - the most influential 'cult' shows of recent years. I always wince whenever somebody mentions that they like 'Skithouse'. I hate Rove McManus and think that his success and Shaun Micallef's failure in the late night talk department is the best proof we have that we're living in a country full of morons. So what if Letterman's best material involves reading out a Top Ten list which he had no hand in writing and pulling an amusing face whenever he finishes sipping a cup of coffee? I could just as easily say that Ricky Gervais' portrayal of David Brent isn't funny because his best material is momentarily looking at the camera from time to time. It's all very basic physical humour - what's the difference? You're all shit. Letterman is funny.
And another thing; how many variations on the term 'Late Show' can the world come up with until the lack of a new synonym brings the genre to a grinding halt? There's already been 'The Late Show', 'The Tonight Show', 'Up Late', 'Late Night', 'The Late Late Show', 'Tonight' and no doubt scores of others which my limited research involving 2 minutes of browsing on imdb.com failed to discover. I swear, the entire world is being driven into an inescapable corner. This is a more immediate threat than global warming or terrorism. Mark my words.
posted by Biggles @ 3:07 pm
8 Comments:
Oh my...
You hit a lot of things on the nail there, especially about Rove and Micallef.
I have yet to experience the awesome talent of David Letterman....so i can not comment on this...however I can safely say that Rove is as funny as a cactus and unfortunately would have to compete quite hard to gain the same intellect as one.
Skithouse should be classed in the same dump with funniest Home Videos. Personally i think the producers from both should be exiled to Siberia!
That is all...
Now you may be right, about a few things there. But where do you get off dragging down Australia's funniest home videos?
I mean if you can keep a show running for as long as I can remember (being a well-cultured (pop-culture that is) 17-25 year old, whose interest in things lasts about 30 seconds or shorter if something comes by with bright lights) then flog it for all its worth!!!
There's a lot of enjoyment to had out of watching stupid people get hit in the nuts...
well....I guess everyone appreciates their own form of humour but Funniest Home Videos isnt mine. I wish you well in your viewings of this show and may your concentration span allow you to pay attention long enough for you to view the next poor bastard who gets 'hit in the nuts'
Variations on Late Show that didn't make it past the drawing board:
Still awake?
Prefilmed live shows
Very Very Early Show
Good night show.
Tardy show
Moonlighting Slot
Jack does not watch late night TV, Jack prefers the morning shows, such at Seven's Sunrise, or The Kerrie-ann show, and occasionaly the news on SBS in some foreign language, but Jack still enjoys the pictures of people bombing and shooting other people, which is all people in other countries seem to do to one another.
Jack also enjoyed Funniest home videos when Jack watched it once. Jack also likes the guests on Rove, but not Rove himself. Jack would also like to point out that Jack is taller than Rove.
There's no doubt in my mind that Letterman is far superior to Leno. One could argue that the shows themselves aren't too much different but as a TV personality Leno can't even hold a candle to Letterman. Leno's monologues are often funnier than Letterman's - but it's not like Leno writes the material. Where Letterman shines is his off-beat interaction with guests and just the little things he says and does. Leno is just a smug man with reasonable comic timing and a big chin. Put him in an interview situation away from his script and the nicest word you could use to describe him is 'polite'.
I think Conan is probably unquestionably the funniest show of the 3 - but whether he is a better personality than Letterman is debatable. If you gave Letterman Conan's material I would argue that it could be just as funny or funnier.
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