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    Levi's Johnston Watch: Manhood Challenges, Conan Jokes, and Shoot Details

    Will Conan O'Brien Be Airing On Monday?

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    Last Night, Jay Leno Tortured Millions

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    Image of pureblarney pureblarney
    11/05/09

    In reply to Levi's Johnston Watch: Manhood Challenges, Conan Jokes, and Shoot Details
    Please live forever, William Shatner. #levijohnston
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    Image of CumaeanSibyl CumaeanSibyl
    11/05/09

    In reply to Levi's Johnston Watch: Manhood Challenges, Conan Jokes, and Shoot Details
    Does Playgirl do flaccid, erect, or both? I'm sure there are folks out there who prefer the former, but I'm not sure if they're a niche fetish group or more of a mainstream minority.

    If they want him hard, the "grower, not a shower" excuse is dead in the water. #levijohnston
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    Image of Brian Moylan Brian Moylan
    11/05/09

    @CumaeanSibyl: Back in the day, they only did flacid. On the website now, it's hard and with jerk-off videos. For Levi, however, I think it's going to be a softee. #levijohnston
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    Image of Heneage Heneage
    11/05/09

    @Brian Moylan: How's that Fleshbot internship going, btw? #levijohnston
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    11/05/09

    In reply to Levi's Johnston Watch: Manhood Challenges, Conan Jokes, and Shoot Details
    I'm glad that at least some people here (i.e. Brian, for one) are intuitive enough to know that the Twitter account is a fake.

    There was a post on it about a month ago that reported it as authentic -- an assertion that I refuted in the comments -- and I was (irrationally) peeved that a correction was never issued.

    Post/thread in question: [gawker.com] #levijohnston
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    11/05/09

    @mattchew03: That post was written by Belonsky, no big surprise there.

    He was too busy making distasteful jokes. #levijohnston
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Levi's Johnston Watch: Manhood Challenges, Conan Jokes, and Shoot Details
    If, mirabile dicktu!, it turns out to be too big, give it a good "Moylan." #levijohnston
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    11/05/09

    In reply to Levi's Johnston Watch: Manhood Challenges, Conan Jokes, and Shoot Details
    He totally could have gone on Conan, read the tweets, and played it off as a joke. Just read them with a hunky smile, then as they're fading to commercial, mouth "I didn't write those." Then point to his crotch and say "December, bitches." This is what I would like from Levi Johnston. #levijohnston
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/05/09

    @Steverino Begins: Now that's brilliant PR strategy right there, you betcha' #levijohnston
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    Image of CaptainSnarky CaptainSnarky
    11/05/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: I can see his penis from my house! #levijohnston
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    If_I_Had_a_Poodle promoted this comment CaptainSnarky was starred CaptainSnarky was unstarred
    Image of wundersmack wundersmack
    11/05/09

    @Steverino Begins: Exactly! But in your fantasy, you overestimate fair Levi. #levijohnston
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    11/06/09

    @wundersmack: Heh, true. They could have put all that on cue cards for him, though. Very large print cue cards. #levijohnston
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    Image of rabbitangstrom rabbitangstrom
    09/27/09

    In reply to Will Conan O'Brien Be Airing On Monday?
    Did Teri Hatcher really say "go to hospital?" God I hate it when Americans try to speak like British people. It doesn't make anyone seem intelligent or sophisticated. Maybe she's just trying to be as annoying as her character on Desperate Housewives.
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    Image of NorthernLite NorthernLite
    09/26/09

    In reply to Will Conan O'Brien Be Airing On Monday?
    Is Jay Leno paying off Conan's stunt coordinators and whatever producers book those animal bits?

    I don't even watch every night but I've seen a few things that looked half-assed and unsafe, like a strange and not funny fight with some stunt guys. And there was a fire/explosion bit where none of the professional safety/stunt people noticed he'd taken off his goggles and forgot to put them back on - a woman in the freaking studio audience had to yell it out right.

    Very weird.
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    Image of seanlaughlin seanlaughlin
    09/26/09

    In reply to Will Conan O'Brien Be Airing On Monday?
    He has done four action movie stunts and had three animal experts with different types of dangerous animals on his show since he began in June.

    So this was coming, I'm just surprise it was just a slip and bump on the head during a non-dangerous segment.
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    Image of SudhaNimpimplah SudhaNimpimplah
    09/15/09

    In reply to Last Night, Jay Leno Tortured Millions
    Brian's "more than ten million" phrasing is misleading. The article he's linked says Leno did 17.7 million viewers, considerably more than ten.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    09/15/09

    @SudhaNimpimplah: To make matters worse, the snippet on the Gawker index page now says 17, but the actual pos says 10 (unless a new version just hasn't worked it's way across the system).
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    09/15/09

    In reply to Last Night, Jay Leno Tortured Millions
    This stuff is like Prop 8. Everyone I know or talk to says that they were against, but then the results say that millions of old people absolutely stuffed the ballot box. So it is with Jay. Fortunately, his whole audience will be dead from no health care soon enough.
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    Image of sarrible sarrible
    09/15/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: I don't think Medicare is going broke quite that quickly.
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    Image of Rhymenocerous Rhymenocerous
    09/15/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: You mean death panels, right?
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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    09/15/09

    In reply to Last Night, Jay Leno Tortured Millions
    It was as bad as the TV show, as TedSez said. Nothing extraordinary. Good question re: Kanye's mom. But that was about it. The chairs, which signalled a more informal chat format, will take some getting used to (if they give him the time). The jokes were pedestrian. Is there an Affrimative Action for Leno's joke writers? How do they get paid so much for being so blandly, inoffensively amusing?

    Also, I CANNOT believe he let Oprah on and didn't say a word about the Whitney Houston crack-weed revelations. Unpardonable.
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    Image of Awesome X Awesome X
    09/15/09

    In reply to Last Night, Jay Leno Tortured Millions
    Leno is the Taco Bell of comedy. It's not just that most people never even consider the awfulness, it's that people who have considered the awfulness still end up in the drive-thru at 2 in the morning.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    09/15/09

    @Awesome X: hahaha.
    awesome analogy.
    in fact, i believe there is a beef meximelt with my name on it come midnight..
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    Image of Brian Moylan Brian Moylan
    09/15/09

    @Awesome X: That is brilliant, but I'm usually not drunk enough for Taco Bell at 10pm.
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    09/15/09

    @Brian Moylan: I usually haven't even started drinking by 10:00 PM.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    09/15/09

    In reply to Last Night, Jay Leno Tortured Millions
    Wasn't Caruso a rerun last night? So, Leno did ten million with a heavily-promoted premiere, up against a rebroadcast of a procedural which was watched by more than thirteen million, the first time around?
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    09/15/09

    @Magister: CSI was a re-run and, at least in my time zone, didn't start until 40 minutes into Leno's show because of tennis running long.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    09/15/09

    @CaptainFantastic: I knew last night was the start of Leno, so I sat down hoping it was also the launch of CSI: Miami, but yeah, it was running late and the HIMYM/Sheen transition looked like a rerun night.

    Confession: If you go through the Defamer archives, you'd see that I've consistently made fun of Caruso over the years, but their tease concerning the sunglasses has me hoping for a good joke.

    Oh, and I probably caught about eight minutes worth of non-Seinfeld Leno, as I flipped around.
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    Image of BitchyD BitchyD
    09/15/09

    @Magister: The other networks did reruns so that everyone could see just how pothetic the Leno show was. Joan Rivers was right he put the U.S. to sleep earlier. Oh and btw, a missing desk was one hell of a format change. It was so mind blowing to see Leno's shoes.
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    Image of ndhapple ndhapple
    09/15/09

    In reply to Last Night, Jay Leno Tortured Millions
    The only drama that was happy with 10 million viewers at 10pm was Southland and that's because no one thought NBC could do anything at 10pm last year.

    BTW- Is is just me or is that new set a design disaster?
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    09/15/09

    @ndhapple: I know nothing about set design, but the feeling I got (compared to current and past late-night TV sets) was that it was very shallow, like everything was mushed along one wall of the building
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    Image of ndhapple ndhapple
    09/15/09

    @CaptainFantastic: Not only was the set way too shallow, it was poorly lit and way too busy. I think there is a Japanese peace garden on the way judging by some of the plants.

    The audience seating is too large and some of the bleachers need to come down. As it is right now, they can't even get Leno and the band in the same shot without shooting the crowd. It's aggravating.

    Oh... and they don't have enough cameras on booms. Or really terrible shot blocking. Or a lot of stuff that should have been cured before this show hit the air (like a monolog that was unfunnier than usual).
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    09/15/09

    @ndhapple: Sounds like you were there!
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    09/15/09

    In reply to Last Night, Jay Leno Tortured Millions
    I watched out of curiosity, and it seemed to be exactly as bad as his late-night show. Is that what the network was looking for? Or did they expect something to be different, apart than the '70s-game-show backdrop?

    For the record, I've seen the Dan Band in concert, and they're actually very funny. But this show apparently has the ability to suck the entertainment value out of everything.
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