Friday, June 22, 2018

Tonight

courtesy:  NBC
Is this what we've become?

NBC's Jimmy Fallon said he felt personal anguish after the negative feedback over his playful and fun interview with presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016.

Are you kidding me?

It's what Fallon does.  It's not Meet the Press, Face the Nation or This Week.  It's the Tonight show, especially Fallon's version of the Tonight show.  He goofs around.

I think Jimmy Fallon is an exceptionally talented guy, and I also think Tonight isn't the right vehicle for him.  The monologues are weak and he's not a very good interviewer.  It seems he's very good at games and the light stuff.

Tonight's ratings went down, and Stephen Colbert's ratings went up, essentially because Colbert has become a one trick pony and bashes Trump relentlessly every night.  I stopped watching.  I'm just tired of it.  Can't you do anything else?  It stops being amusing after a while, especially the way Colbert does it.  He's stopped being a comedian and has morphed into a social commentator.  Sorry, Stephen.  I can get that elsewhere, and there are many others who do it better.

Jay Leno said something fascinating after Johnny Carson't death.  Leno said Carson was hip, but not so hip as to be out of style the next year.

Times change.  Jimmy Fallon could be the last man standing.