Ok, so who else is gonna own up to watching this tonight.
Seems like he’s gonna get a huge boost from Kanye West pulling his shit last night.
This seems to me to be a program birthed in an insane asylum. Who would watch this man five nights a week in primetime? He is bland and unfunny, and now they’re sticking the future of their network and prime time on his shoulders. It’s like asking Quasimodo to take over for Atlas. The entire idea that this is the magic bullet for NBC’s woes is clearly a perfect display of gilded California economics. Nowhere else in America would someone get to propose this ratings-apocolypse in-waiting and expect to have a job to go to the next Monday
On that note, I’ll be watching tonight. Same instinct that makes me peer out the window at a car crash as I drive by.
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| Originally Posted by Princess Kate He is bland and unfunny |
And had consistently the highest rated late night talk show. Since he’s a big hit with the older crowd generally they’ll probably appreciate getting to watch him an hour and a half earlier. I know my grandparents are planning on watching the show and appreciate that they don’t have to stay up late to see it anymore.
I’m no fan of Leno, but I do watch him… whatever mood I’m in, I can always watch an episode, turns the brain off for 30 minutes. I’m guessing millions of other viewers also like the same “quality”, and I can’t blame them.
I don’t see how this show could be a failure in ratings.
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| Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post Same instinct that makes me peer out the window at a car crash as I drive by. |
Exactly how I feel.
I look forward to ignoring his show on a very regular basis.
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| Originally Posted by dontEATnachos View Post And had consistently the highest rated late night talk show. Since he’s a big hit with the older crowd generally they’ll probably appreciate getting to watch him an hour and a half earlier. I know my grandparents are planning on watching the show and appreciate that they don’t have to stay up late to see it anymore. |
Oh, well if he is highest rated then he must be funny. Even if the oldsters love the heck out of him, they do not buy things. They do not buy things that advertisers fond of the 10 pm prime town hour usually like to sell.
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| Originally Posted by Princess Kate Oh, well if he is highest rated then he must be funny. |
I’m not arguing that he’s funny, I’m just saying that he got better ratings than Letterman and than Conan is now getting. NBC has had a black hole of suck in the ratings in their 10PM slot so I have a hard time imagining how the Jay Leno talk show could be worse.
Will his interviews be as excriciating to watch on this new show as his last?
If the show’s like the promos and consist of 90% “Americans R uneducated and dumb!” question-and-answer bits, I don’t see being able to watch more than 5 minutes without crying. The promos are soul-shattering.
Curiosity will make me watch at least a couple of episodes, just like I did with Fallon. Also, the weird promo for this with Fred Armisen that they’ve been showing in theaters - the one where they think they accidentally kill a guy in a hit and run and try to cover it up - was surprisingly dark and funny, hinting at the old Leno, before he was corrupted. But I figure that’s got to be because of Armisen and maybe some SNL/Lonely Island writers, and the new show won’t have those guys to draw on every day.
Not surprisingly…holy shit this is terrible so far.
Ugh. I’m out. There is bland , and then there is The Jay Leno show. Ben Silverman must be living through some of the worst minutes of his life right now.
I found it so dull and devoid of meaning that I began to stare off into space within the first minute.
I am now going to watch Roland Emmerich’s GODZILLA instead. That is not hyperbole, those are my actual plans
I said earlier that I’d watch this the way I glance at a car crash when I drive past one. I guess thats the same thing I just went through. Being alive on September 14th 2009 I took a peek at the debut of the Jay Leno Show. However, it was not even an interesting car crash. More like a fender bender that disabled the engine and wrecked the car, but no one needed to call an ambulance, and there are no stretchers in sight. On that note, I wont slow down as I drive past for this one.
I’ll take use this moment to take my leave of you. I’m off to watch the adventures of Dr. Nick Totopolous - Worm Scientist©
EDIT: like the poster below me says, actually the set looks like the interior of a juke box. That is the *perfect* description. I keep getting the uneasy feeling that Jay is minature when I watch it.
Set looks like they’re shooting inside a Jukebox.
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This show makes his stint on the Tonight Show look cutting-edge. So far it’s the worst kind of lowest common denominator pap. The “60 Minutes” demographic may well lap this up, but 5 hours a week of this nonsense would be unendurable.
If this is what we’re going to have to endure as opposed to hour-long scripted drama (which, admittedly, mostly sucked) I can go ahead and yank out the satellite dish, and stick to Hulu and Netflix.
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| Originally Posted by Abraxas View Post This show makes his stint on the Tonight Show look cutting-edge. So far it’s the worst kind of lowest common denominator pap. The “60 Minutes” demographic may well lap this up, |
Keep in mind that the 60 Minutes (Sixty Minutes) demographic is not the coveted 18-to-whatever viewership that advertisers crave as they are they are the type most receptive to sales pitchs and with the largest ammount of disposable income.
You cannot keep a five night a week prime time talk show on life support with Ads for denture cream and the Hover-round
I was worried about what Jay coming back would do to Conan. I think Conan’s gonna be just fine. I hope Conan’s gonna be just fine. That whole show was completely completely terrible.
What weak segment to end a show on. Any show. Times 10 for it being a first show.
Awww he made Kanye cry…
Jay what a pussy. I was starting to panic that Conan was in trouble, but I think Jay just did him a favor. Conan, if you’re reading this forum (come on I know), just bring back all the bids from your old show now. Counter Jay with the Bear. Oh you know which bear I’m talking about.
Seeing Oprah for 1 min rejuvenated my interest in Conan making fun of her.