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I judge people if they enjoyed Leno

 

When it was Leno vs Letterman, I always thought if you were older, you liked Leno, and if you were 'hipper' or 'cutting edge' you liked Letterman.

Letterman was for Gen X, Leno was pre that.

 

Yeah my Dad only watched Leno while I was growing up, whereas my brothers and I mainly watched Letterman. Fits, ‘cause my Dad makes sure to catch Colbert every night. Safe, and mostly politics-focused

 

My parents liked Leno because he's from their home town so they thought it was cool bragging rights lol

 

It's like those primetime sitcoms with big ratings that no one remembers in a few years. When is the last time someone quoted Two Broke Girls?

 

I grew up reading Jay Leno’s “Headlines” books, which I think was his best ongoing segment. Legit funny because he really only had to show typos in newspapers and ads and just laugh at them.

Letterman was leaps and bounds better in terms of humor and segments. It only became fairly unwatchable in its last decade when it cut its shoots down to four days and Dave stopped doing remote segments. It was clear he was just done with it, but didn’t want to lose that structure in his life. Jay just couldn’t stop because he’s a weirdo, but seemed to always have the spark.

 

There was a scandal at my highschool where kids were caught taking racy photos in the photo lab and it wound up as a Leno monologue joke.

 

In the 90's I had the Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey book I would read all the time. I think that I had a big impact on my taste in comedy. Just a book filled with solid 90's absurdist shitposts.

 

Stephen Colbert’s Cancellation Should Scare You

 

His satire and criticism of Trump wasn't very deep. A lot of it during Trump's first term was just homophobic Putin references.

 

Seth Meyers Says the Future of Late-Night Is 'Outside of My Control'

 

Weird that Seth said that before Colbert was fired....

Maybe not weird, as he sees the writing on the all for Late Night Shows...

 

Listening to Conan’s 2019 podcast interview with Letterman - so good, haha, especially the Bob Hope stuff

 

Conan's Television Academy Hall of Fame acceptance speech on the current state of the late night medium

 

I appreciate the optimism, but if I’m a struggling TV writer, I still think that speech would be hard to take from multimillionaire that will never hurt for a gig for the rest of his life. And I say that as a huge fan of Conan.

 

Roy Wood Jr Talks Stephen Colbert, Donald Trump & Media

"“When he’s running rampant on YouTube like Don Lemon that will create a bigger issue for this administration in 2026 if he builds an audience,” added Wood Jr. “It will be a very differnt landscape if he continues to run off [after leaving CBS]. If [the Trump administration] were smart they would leave us alone and let us tell our jokes.”"