Late Night Shows

I noticed in the paper today that "Late Night with David Letterman" first aired on this day in 1982.  Wow!  Never thought of it before.  Didn't Johnny Carson retire after 30 years?  And Dave is still going strong.  I've always liked Letterman.  Not a lot of jokes, just, uh, more intelligent jokes.  Leno's monologue runs for 10-15 minutes of non-stop jokes and it pushes me back - - too many jokes.  As far as any of the Late Night shows, my taste is still evolving.  Always loved Johnny Carson, always will.  After a hard day, he was the King who tucked us in at night.  Sometimes I watched Letterman.  He was new.  Raw and Rookie rolled into one.  Some years back, Charlene, Nic, Trav and I went to a Wayne Brady Show in Hollywood.  He was funny but, not a keeper.  Then I discovered "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson".  This guy was funny.  His monologue is made up on-the -fly.  There's some 'thoughts' on the teleprompter but that's all he needs.  Very entertaining.  Charlene and I went to a 'Christmas' show of his and the sole guest was Regis.  They even sang carols for the audience.  Love Regis - too bad he never did a late night show as I was never home in the mornings to watch his "Live with Regis and (insert name here)" show.  Also used to watch Conan.  I liked his show, sorry he got bumped. 

After we moved East (no, not Ohio or Pennsylvania, but East Ventura), we signed up for Dish satellite for the TV.  Had cable, expensive.  Had Direct TV, another satellite company, too expensive, also.  Dish is cheap-er.  So we started watching Conan on TBS.  Refreshing and good to see him again.  Nic and Trav just love his show so Charlene got tickets for all of us.  I'm taking a vacation day next Wednesday, February 8 and we're all going to a Conan show.  Martin Short is guest.  It'll be fun, taping in Burbank.  Watch for us.  We may get camera time with very tall red-headed twins in the audience of a red-headed host.

In the last couple of weeks, I got us all watching "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon".  Very funny, very fresh, very talented and entertaining guy.  This guy is very talented comically, musically, everything-aly.  Now, I want tickets to that show but it's in New York.  Ug!  I don't do New York.  Hey, I coulda been a contenda as the greatest Jimmy Fallon fan........ but, Noooo!

Try Jimmy Fallon, you'll like it.