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   "Joseph Nebus"  wrote in message   
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   > I did catch the comedy bits on Fallon's show last night and   
   > they featured ... the results of merging two magazines together, and   
   > a bit where they show off Fallon's enormously huge TV screen and have   
   > him and an audience member pantomime to what's on screen behind them.   
   > These are, of course, in no way reminiscent of If They Mated or of   
   > Desk Drive, but the sense does feel, you know, familiar but not quite   
   > as flavorful as Conan's.  (Of course, twisted backgrounds go back a   
   > lot farther than Late Night with Conan O'Brien.)   
   >   
   > The sense I get is his comic sensibility is vaguely pleasant,   
   > but I would like to have something I can say I wouldn't see on another   
   > host's show.   
   >   
      
   One bit they pretty much took from Conan's show, is interacting from the   
   desk with a  sitting faux audience member.  I'm not sure if Leno has done   
   that sort of thing, and Letterman has been pretty much the "the guy who gets   
   upset and runs out of the studio punching pages in the process."   
      
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