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10/14/09
Indeed.
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Truedat, except I think he butchered "When the Levee Breaks". Too uptempo.
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10/15/09
Of course, Zep's version was a cover, too. From Wikipedia: " 'When the Levee Breaks' is a blues song written and first recorded by husband and wife Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929. The song is in reaction to the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927." #bobdylan
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09/15/09
He was spot on about one thing, though: Biden and Pelosi did look like the Cialis couple.
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Silly billy! That was his best material! And he spent those months perfecting the racetrack, not working on segments.
I think that, within a matter of weeks, other shows are going to speak of this show like the Iran Hostage crisis -- "Primetime Leno, Day 74!" -- hoping that after the guaranteed year is up, this long, national nightmare will be over.
09/15/09
There should totally be an Emmy Category for "Jokes that are Even Less Funny than Jay Leno's Tonight Show." Cause, you know, you don't just pull stuff outta your ass -- you've gotta WORK to be that unfunny.
09/14/09
It seems as though the people who are criticizing tonight's show the most likely hated Leno in the first place. One would presume, then, that their predisposition would give them the lowest of low expectations, yet their assessment of Leno's performance appears to based on either a) expectations higher than those applied to Obama when he entered office, or b) no expectations at all (blank slate, not this-shit-will-suck).
To judge Leno's performance appropriately, one needs to remember that it's Leno he or she is judging.
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09/15/09
Even the moment with Kayne sucked. He could have at least asked, "What were you thinking?" Instead he wussed out and acted like a wimpy Dr. Phil.
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I don't think he needed to ask Kayne what he was thinking, because everyone knows that Kanye doesn't do much of that. I thought Leno's question to Kanye about what his mother would have thought about the antics last night was actually a bit ballsy.
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i thought it was ballsy but also inappropriate. why are you asking him about his dead mom? his mom has nothing to do with what he did, he's an adult and the extra guilt trip that question induced was just wrong. "your dead mom is shaking her finger at you." um, wtf?
09/15/09
And again, given the stakes, given the new timeslot (and thus slightly different audience), given the hype, given the occasion, etc. you'd think somebody not an actual robot would try to inject a little razzle-dazzle into the same-old same-old.
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I'm not disagreeing with you, but I still think it needs to be looked at in context. I've said this about 50 times tonight, but... Jay is old school. He knows what works for him, and he's not going to take any risks that are too big for him to be able to control their outcome. He made several (albeit not earth-shattering) modifications to the show -- e.g. shortening the monologue by 50%, including a longer sketch as part of the monologue, not going to his desk before the end of the first segment, still standing when the show came back, long sketch that he had no part of but to introduce, the new interview area, doing a performer's interview before the performance, ending the show with something familiar like Headlines, etc. -- and I think it did make it new enough but still familiar. The comedy may have fallen flat at times, but when hasn't it with Leno, and why would anyone expect it not to at least once?