0462a834   
   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   allbell@ctc.net writes:   
      
   >On Apr 29, 12:52 am, fi...@nospam.nul wrote:   
   >> Reports: Fallon to succeed Conan on 'Late Night'   
   >> By FRAZIER MOORE =96 4 days ago   
   >>   
   >> NEW YORK (AP) =97 Jimmy Fallon appears to be inching closer to Conan   
   >> O'Brien's "Late Night" chair.   
      
   >Jimmy Fallon might be a wonderful guy, and I hope this works out   
   >really well for him. I hope he gets high ratings and a lot of money   
   >and every possible wonderful thing.   
      
   	Well, yeah, the only reasons to hope for anything but reasonble   
   success would be if one expects that a supposed Fallon failure would   
   open access for someone of greater talent, or if it would give folks   
   from his show credentials useful for later work.   
      
      
   >But, to me, the problem with this pick is that Fallon is very nice,   
   >but he just seems like a nice, charming guy.   
      
   	As my participation in this thread may suggest, he hasn't   
   really made much of an impressionon me, but I'm out of the range of   
   people who regularly watch Saturday Night Live, it seems.   
      
      
   >In contrast, Stephen Colbert and Conan O'Brien come off as Batman type   
   >guys who have a lot of intelligent, conflicted, savagely realistic   
   >brooding going on behind their smiles. In my opinion, Late Night would   
   >be more interesting after Conan leaves if Conan's successor were more   
   >like Batman and less like Robin.   
      
   	I wonder if Fallon will develop a more interesting public   
   persona the closer he gets to appearing nightly.  After all, you just   
   can't blather on for 210 minutes a week if you lack all distinguishing   
   features.  For that matter, after David Letterman it's barely possible   
   to be a talk show host if you aren't willing to at least present some   
   evidence of inner brooding.   
      
   --   
   								Joseph Nebus   
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)