Proud Member of Team CoCo
I am not a huge TV watcher. To me, the best form of entertainment is found either in a book or in a video game of some sort. However, as a night person, I like to wind down my day by watching the local news and then one of the various late shows. Personally, I can't stand Jay Leno. I don't know if it was his west coast style humor or the fact that he always made rather nasty fat jokes about people. Either way, I never found him funny. To be honest, for a long time I watched Letterman at the 11:35pm slot. That is, until Conan O'Brien got the Tonight Show. I've always loved CoCo on the Late Show but I was rarely up that late to watch it. I sort of enjoyed having bad insomnia so I could catch at least the opening monologue and would even stay up late just to catch an episode of Triumph the Insult Dog. Him on the Tonight Show was the equivalent of a mental orgasm for me, even though the 11:35 version of him was a lot more tame than the Late Show one.
Now with all this crap going on at NBC I'm really pissed off. One of the reasons why I don't enjoy TV any more is because all of my favorite shows got canceled (e.g., the Dresden Files) or played on for so long that they are just either way too predictable or too similar (e.g., the Law & Orders and the CSIs). The Tonight Show with CoCo was one of the few that I made an effort to watch. NBC is shooting themselves in the foot with this one. Leno might have been funny ten years ago. The failure of his 10pm show proves he no longer is. And don't blame CoCo for low ratings for the Tonight Show. With the pitiful Leno Show as a lead in, what do you expect?
If you can believe it, I actually wrote an e-mail to NBC. I usually don't do things like this unless I'm really pissed. I know it won't do any damn good but it was cathartic. Basically I told them if they put Leno back, they just lost yet another viewer to Letterman or wherever CoCo goes.
Now with all this crap going on at NBC I'm really pissed off. One of the reasons why I don't enjoy TV any more is because all of my favorite shows got canceled (e.g., the Dresden Files) or played on for so long that they are just either way too predictable or too similar (e.g., the Law & Orders and the CSIs). The Tonight Show with CoCo was one of the few that I made an effort to watch. NBC is shooting themselves in the foot with this one. Leno might have been funny ten years ago. The failure of his 10pm show proves he no longer is. And don't blame CoCo for low ratings for the Tonight Show. With the pitiful Leno Show as a lead in, what do you expect?
If you can believe it, I actually wrote an e-mail to NBC. I usually don't do things like this unless I'm really pissed. I know it won't do any damn good but it was cathartic. Basically I told them if they put Leno back, they just lost yet another viewer to Letterman or wherever CoCo goes.
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