Brian Gongol

Leno will be moved out of the Tonight Show next year, and Conan O'Brien moves in. Jimmy Fallon will then take over Conan's spot. Note this: Fallon, Ferguson, and Leno started in stand-up comedy. Letterman was in TV news and (briefly) in talk radio before entering stand-up. O'Brien was a TV writer before anything else. Kimmel and Daly both spent some time in radio. The preponderance of stand-up comedians goes some way towards explaining why there's so much shouting in late-night television. Kimmel is rarely even close to being as loud as Leno. And that probably explains (in part) why nobody's been able to replicate Johnny Carson's dominance; he grew up doing radio and realized that when people are in bed listening to you tell jokes, they don't need you to shout as though they're in a comedy club.


A couple of guys made a fake VW commercial involving a suicide bomber. The Germans were not amused.