Words cannot express how lame I think Jay Leno is.
His jokes just suck.
And, his delivery is horrendous, absolutely horrendous. The fact that he feels the need to "explain" the joke by saying the punchline multiple times makes me wonder how anybody thinks he is humorous. Or, listening to him following up the joke with a phrase like, "No - because that's not good... That's not something you want to do..." like it's going to further substantiate that the butt of the joke is a moron makes me cringe and reach for the remote.
Jay Leno is really painful for me to watch. But, so is all late night television programming these days. It's like, because we're half awake, they're allowed to offer sub-par entertainment because most of the viewers are either - A. Drunk. or - B. Stupid.
I used to stand strong that Letterman was the best. But, after hearing the same joke delivered night after night, and after being forced to hear Paul Schaffaer sing, I don't know if I can watch them anymore either. Plus, I think Dave is going looney.
Okay, I'm not going to talk about just pitifully bad Craig Kilborn is. He's worse than Leno, and his show should just be put out of it's misery... The only bright spot: Kilborn does not have a dopey band leader to stroke his ego.
So, that leaves Late Night, with Conan O'Brien. What makes Conan so funny is that he is so pathetic. And, what makes that okay is that he admits to it. Also, Late Night has the best band leader in the business, Max Weinberg. What I like about Max is that he doesn't lower himself to laughing hysterically at all of Conan's jokes. Paul and Kevin Eubanks, on the other hand, laugh like idiots at all the jokes delivered by their respective hosts. Paul with his nasal exclamation of: "Aaaaahhhhhhhh, haaah, haaah..." and Kevin with his hiccup style performace: "Hyeh, Hyeh, Hyeh...[breathe] Hyeh, Hyeh, Hyeh..." It's sad, and I feel like smacking them and then taking away their microphone privileges.




Slapped up here on 4/20/2002 08:15:00 PM by: Me, Suzy...