>funny
>smart
>workaholic
>legend in the business
>respected stand-up
>worth $400M
>outlived many of his rivals
Is there a greater figure in the history of comedy or late-night television?
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>funny. >smart. >workaholic. >legend in the business. >respected stand-up. >worth $400M
Also: has done a weekly set in Hermosa Beach every Sunday since the late 1970s. Humble. In his lane.
B-b-but… he stole le wacky ginger stringy dance mans dream of hosting the tonight show!!!
Conan knew what he was doing. Flew too close to the sun.
Are we talking Letterman or Conan?
He got a lot of shit from NBC execs when Obama became president and he refused their request to not poke fun of the president. Thats what that weird saga happened between him and Conan.
Yet...he ended up winning against Conan? If what you say is true then that makes literally no sense, if the network didn't like that he made Obama jokes then why would they re-hire him as the host of the tonight show over Conan?
ratings are ratings, bro. That's all I can say. Doesn't matter if you're good, bad, ugly, beautiful, stupid, or smart... if you bring in ratings and commercial revenue, you're in.
Literally just made this shit up. God i hate incels
Literally never happened
You completely made this up btw
Why are /misc/cels like this?
Holy frick Mandel is obnoxious
yes. Also israeli. Coincidence?
Correct. And what are studios looking for? That stable dumb boomer audience. That's why Leno ultimately won the late-night wars.
Headlines were actually chuckle-worthy on a regular basis. I miss watching them with my dad on Monday nights when I was a teenager.
Jay Leno's Garage is better than his comedy ever was. Fite me.
i agree.
Nobody remembers his name. No one thinks of him as influential. Letterman beat Leno just on this.
Letterman was more influential but Leno was the benchmark for stability.
Stability for literal boomers. Who cares? Today’s generation of comics grew up watching Letterman and Conan and idolizing the comics they brought on like Norm.
Now he is stuck doing some shit game show.
What else is he going to do? He's an impotent multi-millionaire who's been a company man for 35 years.
I don't even hate him, it's just Letterman was infinitely more enjoyable.
I've seen Leno live 3 times and I'm under 40.
Dude is a legit old-school entertainer. Just wants to make people laugh and that's his only agenda.
>conan ends up being a huge homosexual
>unironically felt bad about being on team conan when all this shit went down
I'm sorry Jay
I still like Conan but he's a b***h and NBC was right
>ever liking conan in the first place
ngmi
I miss Headlines and the opening monologues.
>funny
Yes.
Nothing Leno ever did in his entire night run even came close to this Letterman kino
He's a calming presence on screen and Ibloke him, but I've honestly never laughed at anything he's ever said. Still better than Fallon, Colbert, Corden and Oliver
jay was a lot quicker than everyone else with his jokes, letterman was intellectual, conan was crude , all three were the funniest and if i had to pick just one it would be between letterman or conan