I used to watch the tonight show every night. I missed a lot of school from oversleeping. At the NBC studios in Burbank, I saw Jay Leno a few times while he was guest hosting for Carson. When O’Brien took over for Letterman, I thought he was awful– but six months later, he had his own style and was funnier than Letterman.
I miss the late night TV while living in England. This week, Conan took over for Leno as host of the Tonight Show. This is the opening for the first show. Looks like it will be very good.
Maybe we will be able to watch the show from the UK one day.
I’ve heard that this video link doesn’t work very well. It seems to work sometimes for me. If it was on YouTube, I would have used that link instead of NBC.com
The Tonight Show was much better with Jay Leno than with Conan primarily because the Tonight Show has always been West coast and Late Show and Conan O’Brian Show were East Coast. Conan has an East coast humour, it’s a little more of a bite, a little more high strung and for that reason I don’t think he’ll be as successful as Leno. I’ve started watching Kimmel who would have been a better replacement.
I see your point Derek. I never thought much about it. But I’m not sure about comedy-style being based on which coast you are. I grew up in San Diego, but preferred Letterman over Leno. I imagine in the midwest (like Missouri), it wouldn’t matter to them which coast the show was filmed on.
But then again, I’ve been out of the country for 10 years so am no authority.