Part of what killed Conan's Tonight Show ratings were people changing the channel to avoid the Jay Leno Show, and leaving it somewhere else until they went to bed. Now that Leno's not in the primetime slot, he's not driving people away from his post-news timeslot. What would be very interesting to see is the 10 p.m. slot's faring since The Jay Leno Show stopped, and how local 11 p.m. NBC news programs have done in ratings since then.

I am clearly not a hipster, because I never saw the appeal of St. Conan "Big Head" O'Brien, or his puffy hair.

/Don't much care for Leno or Letterman, either.

//Sorry, I hate people who barge into fan threads to dump all over the object of the fans affection.

1) Find a thread about a fan favorite, about a person with a very passionate following.

2) shiat all over said thread, telling us all how you don't care about/don't know about/don't like said fan favorite.

3) Masturbate furiously over false sense of superiority/over how you sure did show us/over whatever enjoyment you get out of thread-shiatting.

Did I basically sum up the usual Conan/Whedon thread?

Something is popular on the internet?

I FIND IT TO BE THE WORST THING EVER!

/hipsters like something because it's obscure
//reactionaries hate something because it's popular
///both are terrible

Shadowknight: 1) Find a thread about a fan favorite, about a person with a very passionate following.

2) shiat all over said thread, telling us all how you don't care about/don't know about/don't like said fan favorite.

3) Masturbate furiously over false sense of superiority/over how you sure did show us/over whatever enjoyment you get out of thread-shiatting.

Did I basically sum up the usual Conan/Whedon thread?

And 97% of all threads on the music tab.

A) This was posted like 6 months ago about how his demo ratings 'dipped' slightly below Conan's. They must've risen because they're now posted again as if it just happened for the first time.

B) OLD PEOPLE WATCH LENO. This is a shock to absolutely no one.

Blues_X [TotalFark] Quote 2010-09-03 05:24:20 PM
7of7: Conan was just another generic late night comedian until hipsters adopted him as their own.

1/10

10/10.

Leno may basically suck but at least he is smart enough to know that putting people in bear suits and then having them pretend to masturbate is crass, not funny.

And the fact that so many vocal Farkers think that a person in a bear suit pretending to masturbate is funny makes me wonder just how farked up they are and whether they were sexually abused as children.

And yeah, I'm serious.

Yeah but regarding ratings Leno beats Letterman like a cheap whore.

The Tonight Show is NBC's late-night cash-cow and the highest rated show in its timeslot. Leno can carry it, 'Coco' could not.

/ 'nuff said.

Neither are funny.

Leno is less humorous, especially after browsing fark all day, and compared to The Daily Show.

Conan is technically funnier than Leno, but his person and humor are simply obnoxious.

Between the two, I find Leno to be a better entertainer, but not comedian.

Leno should have been the better man, stepped down and let Conan have his show, regardless of what NBC wanted. Leno then should have then used his and NBCs power to get the rights to American Top Gear - because Leno at least knows cars, has a vested history in entertainment, and has been on Top Gear before. Instead, we got three morons on the History channel re-enacting their Dukes of Hazard fantasies.

/in a perfect world

The_Sponge: Wow....I bet you're a blast at parties.

The one where Conan pulled off the bear mask and Jim Carrey was inside the costume was COMEDY F*CKING GOLD.

BTW, here's another one of his sketches that will offend your delicate taste in comedy:

Lincoln Money Shot Channel (new window)

/You're definitely living up to your Fark handle.

Dude? So are you because you're sucking up all the fun in here.

Dumb humor can be good but Conan's smugness about his talent is just unjustified.

The fact that you think that a person in a bear suit pretending to masturbate is funny tells the rest of us all we need to know about you.

Why do you - and Conan - find making idiotic jokes about sex the height of humor? You're like a couple of junior high boys getting off looking at the lingerie section of a Sears catalog.

Farking Allah, Conan is nothing but the 21st century version of
the Three Stooges: aggressive, stupid and as subtle as getting hit over the head with a hammer.


And btw, yeah, I am a blast at parties.

douchebag/hater:
Leno may basically suck but at least he is smart enough to know that putting people in bear suits and then having them pretend to masturbate is crass, not funny.

And the fact that so many vocal Farkers think that a person in a bear suit pretending to masturbate is funny makes me wonder just how farked up they are and whether they were sexually abused as children.

And yeah, I'm serious.

Considering all the time you spend on Fark this may be the stupidest thing you've said yet. I say again: Burn your things and go live alone in the woods. You will not be missed.

So I guess this continues to throw a wet blanket on ANY possibility of Leno reprising his near Academy Award winning turn as 'Mookie' in American Hot Wax???

If Leno's ratings are down 22% in the 18-49 demographic, then there's really no argument. 18-49 year olds are by far the most important to tv advertisers on prime time network shows. In many cases, total viewers don't really matter if the 18-49 demographic is bad.

douchebag/hater: Leno may basically suck but at least he is smart enough to know that putting people in bear suits and then having them pretend to masturbate is crass, not funny.

And the fact that so many vocal Farkers think that a person in a bear suit pretending to masturbate is funny makes me wonder just how farked up they are and whether they were sexually abused as children.

And yeah, I'm serious.

I will treat you as serious: The Masturbating Bear started out as a shock joke. The first time you saw it, you laughed just because it was completely crass and unexpected. It STAYED funny, simply because it was a running gag. Granted, it wouldn't have been funny if you just heard about it or saw it out of context and without seeing the first appearance.

It was basically fan service, an in joke for the people who had been watching it for years.

Not saying it's high brow or anything. But it was one of those things you giggled at without being able to explain to anyone else why you giggled at it.

Simply the Funniest Person on Late Night TV.

douchebag/hater: Blues_X [TotalFark] Quote 2010-09-03 05:24:20 PM
7of7: Conan was just another generic late night comedian until hipsters adopted him as their own.

1/10

10/10.

Leno may basically suck but at least he is smart enough to know that putting people in bear suits and then having them pretend to masturbate is crass, not funny.

And the fact that so many vocal Farkers think that a person in a bear suit pretending to masturbate is funny makes me wonder just how farked up they are and whether they were sexually abused as children.

And yeah, I'm serious.



I wasn't a fan of the bear myself but to complain a bout how 'crass' a bit that took up 15 seconds of a show every once in a while was is stupid. Masturbating bear sucks for a few seconds, Leno sucks for 60 minutes.

I can't speak to which is funnier. I can never hear the late night television hosts over my Victrola and carrier pigeon roost.

The big trouble that no one mentions, least of all the networks, is that their Raison d'être is gone. And it's been gone for a few decades now. Back when TV stations still went off the air these shows were it if you wanted to watch something on the 5 stations that you got. The networks knew this and did their best to get their chunk of that magic demographic.

Today is very different, though. People have much more choice than they once had. Several hundred stations to choose from instead of only a handful, video libraries, services such as Netflix, and a whole host of options on the internet. Instead of just ABC, NBC, CBS, and some Spanish UHF station that sometimes comes in, you can spend the entire evening on Youtube watching stupid cat videos.

Not only are their ratings against each other falling, but their overall combined ratings are falling drastically as more "other" options pop up. Back in the world that had no internet, no DVD or VCR, and no cable TV, the networks were golden. Unfortunately they have failed to change with the times. As a result, that magic demographic is finding something to do other than watch their crud.

Their model is failing fast and they will quickly become irrelevant if they don't change soon. If it isn't too late already.

/or you could spend the evening at redtube
//and watch another type of stupid cat videos

I agree that Jay hasn't been funny for years. Then again, Conan was always an unfunny, insufferable, lame douche.

Why can't I like Dave, Conan, Jay, and Craig? Life is not a zero sum game, and I have a dual tuner DVR. They all have there own vibe, are are entertaining enough to a large enough audience. Times change, TV audiences are fragmented, and it is not necessarily a bad thing.

There was no God given mandate that thou shalt have 3 channels, and the count of the channels shall remain 3.

//Dennis Miller and Magic Johnson still suck as late night hosts.

Anyone else think Kimmel is the best of the bunch?

John Buck 41: Esquire: Anyone else think Kimmel is the best of the bunch?

Kimmel.

Isn't he that guy who kissed Ben Stein's ass?

waaaaampler

HarlequinGuy: The Tonight Show is NBC's late-night cash-cow and the highest rated show in its timeslot. Leno can carry it, 'Coco' could not.

/ 'nuff said.

Nope. They had to do something when they decided Jay's earlier show wouldn't work. The affiliates were losing money on their newscasts because Jay was running off their audience. NBC was also losing ad revenue for themselves in that time slot.

They were in to Jay for a fortune so they were going to have to move him somewhere. The move was not because the show makes more with Jay. It doesn't. Ad dollars are not spent based on total viewers but on key demographics, and Conan beats Leno in those demographics handily. But the reduced ad revenue plus the Conan buyout was less than the money they would have paid Jay to not be on TV plus Conan's salary.

It was never about Conan's ratings.

Craig Ferguson is naturally funny. A skilled comedian. Give him *any* material and he'll make it funny.

/all must hail Syd the Rabbit!
//looking forward to Conan's return

DigitalCoffee: The big trouble that no one mentions, least of all the networks, is that their Raison d'être is gone. And it's been gone for a few decades now. Back when TV stations still went off the air these shows were it if you wanted to watch something on the 5 stations that you got. The networks knew this and did their best to get their chunk of that magic demographic.

They can lose a lot of viewers and still make a lot of money with late night talk shows. TV production doesn't get much cheaper than a guy talking to a camera in a studio and interviewing guests who are paid next to nothing by the talk show because most of them are being paid by someone else to promote something. The format is viable as long as free, advertiser-supported television is viable.

Nem Wan: TV production doesn't get much cheaper than a guy talking to a camera in a studio and interviewing guests who are paid next to nothing by the talk show ...

Considering the pile of money they had to give Conan just so they wouldn't have to give an even bigger pile to Jay, I wouldn't say that these shows are as cheap as you make them sound. All things considered though, NBC has been royally farking themselves for quite a number of years. This was just icing on the shiat sammich they're eating.