TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[Jocephus]

i don't watch 'em live either anymore...which is weird 'cause as a kid i loved, just loved watching letterman then switching over to conan

[MrSaigon]

You could argue that the Internet has ruined late night television. But honestly, in my situation, it has at least salvaged the best of it.

When is the 40th SNL thing?

[Jocephus]

sometime in feb

[thrill]

It's weird how that has happened to late night. I mean, Conan is as influential an artist as any in my life. My outlook on life and how it's better to laugh at the absudities was all down to Late Night with Conan O'Brien in my adolescence. He still has a show on every night and I never, ever watch it.

[Famous Mortimer]

So, is Jay Cutler just like, a super putz or something?

Great question by Pally.

They were talking about this on the Grantland podcast. Basically why are we still making late night talk shows with desks, monologues, etc... And specifically why Conan went right back to that format after being fired.

I'm mystified by it too. Conan is so good with his improvised and/or remote bits. Why not center his show around that? I'm hoping Colbert doesn't do the same, but I'm guessing he will.

I didn't see Pally's guest stint, but it does sound like it might be difficult to capture on a nightly basis. Though I think on the podcast they were suggesting once a week.

After the moaning from Conan (did anyone see that 60 Minutes segment where it was like he was an abuse survivor?) and them giving him the show on TBS, I bet he could have done whatever he wanted - that he chose to do a completely mainstream and ordinary chat show was such a disappointment. I tuned in the first week and after day 2 was like "this is what he caused all the fuss about?"

I'll have to give Pally a go, though, his stint sounds interesting.

[MrSaigon]

It's weird how that has happened to late night. I mean, Conan is as influential an artist as any in my life. My outlook on life and how it's better to laugh at the absudities was all down to Late Night with Conan O'Brien in my adolescence. He still has a show on every night and I never, ever watch it.

I sort of hate myself for how worked up I got about the Leno stuff. 1. I never watch anyway. 2. He was always going to land somewhere. I know it really sucked for him, but still. Getting worked up to get worked up like a good American I suppose.

[robbotis]

I watch Conan jus tabout every night. He's great, but I agree, he's off set pieces and skits are much better than his sitting on the coach interviews. His monologues and audience stuff is funny though. I do hate most of his writer Leon's on camera stuff though.

[mikechamp]

Speaking of late night TV, I'm curious as to people's thoughts on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.

[33anda3rd]

It's weird how that has happened to late night. I mean, Conan is as influential an artist as any in my life. My outlook on life and how it's better to laugh at the absudities was all down to Late Night with Conan O'Brien in my adolescence. He still has a show on every night and I never, ever watch it.

For me it was Letterman's NBC show as a kid then the first years of Conan in college. And yeah, I don't watch either anymore. And it's because Letterman and Conan are on the worst possible networks for the way people consume media now.

I work nights so the next morning as I'm eating, catching up on email, playing with the dog, etc. I have The Daily Show, Fallon, Larry Wilmore on in the background. I stream them on Hulu. CBS and TBS are not on hulu and don't have their own AppleTV apps. If they did, it would be Daily Show, Conan, Letterman for me in the morning. They don't, so I can't.

[Jocephus]

i think you can go to the letterman site and conans and see that weeks worth of episodes