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I'm really bummed about the way NBC did Conan dirty like that. Conan was by far there most talented talk show host within the last twenty years and I was looking forward to growing old with him as my Tonight Show host, someone who has been there with me since I was a little night owl watching absurd sketches and laughing my ass off.



Unfortunately no one at NBC gives two shits about having a familiar face for a progressing demographic. After all, you ask any 18 year old about Jack Parr and their bound to reminisce over the days spent in front of the tv with Lawrence Welk and the hours upon hours Pat Boone was played on the phonograph. So instead, they are bringing back Jay Leno, who in all honesty, probably knew from the get go that when he left the Tonight Show, he was going to weasel his way back some how. Jay Leno is the most pathetic piece of shit I have ever seen in my entire life and it just so happens that he's also pathetically unfunny. I remember driving past him when he was doing Jaywalking screaming, "GET THE FUCK OFF THE AIR ALREADY." He's probably doing this just to spite me.

And the thing about late night programming is that in terms of talk-shows, it is a dyng breed. Networks like adultswim and comedy central have already taken to siphoning a huge chunk of their ever decreasing market. Who needs David Letterman when you can watch something funnier on any other channel? The only person who seems to be thriving under these circumstance is Jimmy Kimmel, who has a pretty good show, and in my opinion is set to become the new king of late night with this deseperate move NBC has made. Being the king of late night in this day and age though, don't really mean shit. And while Kimmel is good, it isn't great. It's night Late Night with Conan (and Fallon, even with all that talent backing him on the writing staff, cannot carry that program to save his life).

Craig Ferguson is likeable and everyone likes to hear him speak in his accent. That program suffers from overediting and the fact that they tape most of the music segments which adds to the already sterile feeling that CBS gives off with most of it's programming. I seriously believe that with the end of Conan's stint on Tonight, goes the end of the last true Late Night spirits. And Conan, classy as always, has stuck to his guns and told NBC to go fuck themselves. He is better than that, and he always has been. When he first started out, NBC gave him a show-to-show contract which was something not only unheard of, but amazingly insulting basically saying that we reserve the right to pull the plug at any point without letting you know. Hell, for one night it actually was pulled and cancelled. Then when it caught on, NBC realized they needed someone there and kept him there in silence. And when the Tonight Show news broke, Conan learned he would have to wait five years before that abortion Jay Leno would sign off. AND AFTER ALL THAT. AFTER ALL THAT SHIT, Jay decides to have another show. NBC bitched him around for near twenty years, and after all that, I'm sure Conan realized that you can only be a company man for so long. When that company isn't your company anymore, it's time to say adios assholes.

NBC is in a sorry ass state. If not for Heroes, that network has absolutely nothing. One of it's highest rated programs is a show that is the flagship of THE FRIDAY NIGHT BLOCK!! THE FRIDAY NIGHT BLOCK ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!??! When sorry ass shows like Big Bang Theory and Two and Half Men are kicking your ass, you know you're fucking up. So that's the reason for this bitch move? This reversion to old ways. It worked in 1994, it will work now! No way dudes, you guys are dead in the water. And will be until you fix stupid shit like this with your retarded ass network.

As for the state of Late Night Talk Show programming, I feel bad. As I stated earlier, there really hasn't been any good shows besides Conan to come out that really had people saying, "NOW THAT'S FUNNY!" There hasn't been any progression (as evidence by NBC's pussying out). And I don't think there will be. Conan said he wouldn't stand by and be a part in the destruction of part of American culture and he was right to say so.

Aside from Conan to me, there has only been one really funny show. It was on Vh1. It was cancelled after two weeks, because no one knew who this guy was and thought his sense of humor was too offputting and weird. That dude, was Zack Galifianakis. That dude is currently the hottest name in comedy right now. I became a fan of Zach watching this show and his stand-up specials early last decade and if his success has taught me anything, it's that networks don't know the first thing about what it means to be funny.

This is a clip from after his show had been cancelled. They were allowed to put out the rest of the month, but after word came down, the theme of The Show being a Lame Duck and dead in the water became the whole premise of the show, which made for some of the most brilliant and hilarious sketches and bits I have ever seen in late night. When you know you're being cancelled and are basically just killing time, how do you go out there and try and be funny? Answer: make the end as drawn out, depressing and awkward as possible. Make it part of your show. In this show, Zach says that everyone else went to another show by accident, so they only were able to get one audience member. Because there were no people to laugh, they had to use a laugh track. The rest is fucking gold.


They don't make em like that anymore. They don't want to.