'The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon'

[Mark Jeffries]

I am no fan of Fallon's, but this pretentious piece of claptrap from Current Affairs is the sort of thing that gives the left a bad name:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-banal-horror-of-jimmy-fallon

By the way, Brit Jon Greenaway, Cavett never was number one in late-night. Carson yukking it up with Rickles beat Cavett interviewing James Baldwin every night.

[Tom Wolper]

Greenaway wants to pretend a late night talk show in 2026 is something that it clearly isn’t. This week is new shows for the Tonight Show. NBC has western playoff games starting at 10:30 in the east followed by local news and then the Tonight Show starting around 3 AM. If they cared at all about their TV ratings they would show reruns.

One strong memory I have of Cavett is when he had Tony Curtis as a guest. He asked Curtis about the craft of acting. Curtis’s face lit up and with great enthusiasm he he talked at length about acting. It was one of the dullest things I ever saw on TV and Cavett just let him go on and on.

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[Bob F]

In those years they didn't have social media to compete with. It was mainly print media, which could be just as verbose and dull.    B

Tom Wolper, to Mark Jeffries, April 22nd, in part: