I have to say, i was shocked when both of these pieces about LenO'Brien were balanced and didn't really bash either Jay Leno or Conan O'Brien more than the other. NBC got smacked, but no surprise there. Remember, Lorne Michaels exec produced and owned a piece of the Conan show at 12:35a... he gave Conan the job. And Conan wrote at SNL before that.
What SNL got in the faux Larry King piece was that they are all locked into their images and somewhat unaware of how their behaviors play... and that failure was behind these choices, not some moral issue. And if you want to pretend that the humorless Conan is a positive portrayal or that calling Leno at 10 a "colossal failure" sticks, but Conan being called a "colossal failure" at 11:35p doesn't... well...
And Seth Meyers, who took his shot at NBC, also got his shots in at Leno and Conan, who walks away with more money than Seth Meyers will make if he were to do SNL for three decades. The "two wives" comparison is pretty apt. The part than Leno bashers want to pretend is not there is how good "the first wife" looked and looks.
(Note: The NBC embeds -now after the jump - don't seem to be working... trying to get them going...)
Posted by dpoland at January 17, 2010 01:27 PM
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