I'm so old...

...I remember when the late-night talk shows lasted an hour and a half.

And there was only one.

And it was funny.

Very funny.

Not only that, but as the guests came out and were done with their interview, they slid to the side, the left, as we faced them, and stayed on the show for the entire program.

Pretty different, especially compared to today's interviews and shows.

In case you didn't see it last night: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/tag/johnny-carson/

I'm so old...

...I think I saw this when it first aired. And I know who the guy is and his jokes and all that.

I'm so old...

...I know who the guy is telling the joke. Further, I'm old enough to have watched him tell this, live, years ago.

I'm so old...

I know who Paul Lynde was. For that matter, I'm so old I was alive when they let people smoke on TV. I can also either name each person on this "roast" or what they starred in. THAT old...

Television: imitative, repetitive, umimaginative

Okay, Conan O'Brien's show is an empty, sad imitation of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, as I said the other day and last evening I discovered that "How I Met Your Mother" is a blatant, shallow, hollow attempt at repeating the success, such as it was, of "Friends".

Really, people.

You can do much better.

It reminds me of the old song:

"Blow up the TV..."


Think happy thoughts and have a great day and weekend.

Conan O'Brien's show

Am I the only one who thinks Conan O'Brien and/or some executives got together (a few times now) and have said, aloud, that what they need to do is do their best to totally re-create the old Johnny Carson "Tonight Show", right down to the set and the fat sidekick?

I saw his new show on TBS and that's precisely what I came away with.

Except Conan isn't as funny.

By a long shot.

And Johnny never seemed desperate.

Yikes.