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   Crash Bandicoot to Butler To A Hottie   
   Re: What the hell is Jay Leno's appeal?   
   03 Mar 08 13:44:57   
   
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   Butler To A Hottie wrote:   
   > Letterman is awful now. The things that made his old show entertaining   
   > are gone. Now he is just some grumpy weird guy with a boring show.   
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   > I never understood Leno either, but his main attribute is that, like   
   > Ryan Seacrest, he is so average that he mainly doesn't offend anyone.   
   > When he makes fun of people, its not in a way that really cuts enough   
   > to turn people off. Lowest common denominator theory. Also, one cannot   
   > discount the fact he gets the A level guests, and I assume some people   
   > watch just to star gaze and simply tolerate Leno.  He isn't good, he   
   > isn't bad, he is just, eh.  Going to a new network or something likely   
   > wouldn't work, because its the Tonight Show brand that gets the   
   > guests, not Leno IMO   
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   I can't sit through the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno",   
   and his appeal baffles me. He's milquetoast...   
   Shaking hands with the audience in the opening, the crazy camera work,   
   Kevin Eubanks attempting to be a poor-man's Paul Shaffer....   
   Yuck!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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