XPost: alt.fan.letterman, rec.arts.tv   
   From: epwise@yahoo.com   
      
   "Victor Velazquez"  wrote in   
   news:OPSdnQXE3YVoBlTanZ2dnUVZ_o-mnZ2d@comcast.com:   
      
   > KiniK wrote:   
   >> "MikeM"  wrote in message   
   >> news:a27b899d-a8ce-4f44-95c7-7e92e1c9424a@n75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com   
   >> ...   
   >>> ABC and FOX seem to want this guy after he leaves NBC...why? Jay   
   >>> hasn't been entertaining in well.....for his entire career.   
   >>>   
   >>> Why he's the king of late night is beyond me.   
   >>   
   >> I feel that way about Letterman.   
   >   
   > Letterman ushered in the age of post-irony cool.  That he has been   
   > much imitated is not really his fault;  that's like hating on   
   > Shakespeare because his plays are full of cliches.   
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   Leno is more popular simply because more people like him and watch him.   
   Letterman's fans are people who think of themselves as "cool" and must not   
   only watch only the guy they consider cool but trash anyone more popular   
   since popularity automatically does not equal cool.  Third-grade mentality.   
      
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