From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   first@nospam.nul writes:   
      
   >Pray Fallon doesn't become another Shabby Chapped, uh, Chevy Chase.   
      
   	You know, that's not a bad thing to wonder about.  Part of   
   what helped Conan through the roughest first months was the debut a   
   week earlier of the Chevy Chase Show, which was *so* catastrophic   
   that it took heat off of Conan.  People had a much bigger, much more   
   Chevy Chase-ish target for their scorn while Conan was figuring out   
   how to make things like Actual Items or Veteran's Day Carols work.   
      
   	Raising the question: is it likely that Jimmy Fallon will   
   have the benefit of any sacrificial lambs in early fall 2009 when   
   he, I presume, takes over Late Night?  That's over a full season   
   ahead, I admit, but if, like, Fox is planning to break into a new   
   late-night talk show they'd probably be trying to put something   
   together now.   
      
   	And who would be the right Chevy Chase for Fallon?  Somebody   
   reasonably familiar and not obviously wrong for a talk show position   
   and yet whose once-formidible comic talent had somehow evaporated   
   over the preceding years?   
      
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