CF's show is dreadfully unfunny when he's doing prepared skits but can be funny as feck when they're just improvising. Overall Letterdude is my favorite, esp. when he's pissed off about something, plus Schaefer has the best band (LOVE Will Lee). Kimmel is a bit too smug for me. Conan comes in a very close second for me, and I mean very close. Leno's show SUCKS and he's justly vilified IMO, but I saw him live in Vegas in '06 doing stand-up and he was outstanding. Hands down, HANDS DOWN my least favorite is Fallon, I think he is a fecking IDIOT and have NO idea why he's popular. Arsenio was always plastic, phony and forced for me, I never enjoyed his show. Carson, at the top of his game (which had kinda passed him by the time he gave the show to Leno), was the master IMO. And no one person, before or since, could launch a comedian's career like Johnny. If he asked you over to the seat next to him after your set, it was like hitching your wagon to the stars. Just look at the current crop of talk show hosts, how many of them got their big break on the Tonight Show.
Last edited by Paul Smeenus; 01-08-2014 at 06:32 PM.
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