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Posted Aug 21st 2009 9:01AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, News, Ratings, Reality-Free
NBC must be doing a lot of regretting these days for moving Jay Leno to 10 p.m., and not just because it screws up the perfect headline alliteration with his former competition.
It seems that
David Letterman's Late Show reruns are getting higher ratings than Conan O'Brien's brand-spanking new
Tonight Show episodes.
The margins aren't very wide, but it must hurt when a rival is kicking your lily-white hide and he's not even throwing any punches. It's like getting your ass kicked by a one legged Stephen Hawking.
Continue reading Letterman beating O'Brien with old shows
Posted Jul 21st 2009 5:00PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, Reality-Free
The world is facing a population explosion of Biblical proportions. People are procreating and reproducing faster than sustenance reserves and housing requirements can keep up with it. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have officially given up adoption for the next three Lents.
Something has to be done that doesn't involve condoms, birth control pills, or taking a hammer to certain parts of the human anatomy.
India claims they have found a solution.
Television?Continue reading India's plan for population control includes ... late night TV?!?
Posted Jun 28th 2009 9:03AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Not only did the
"Fire David Letterman" crowd completely fail at their attempt to oust the late night host from his desk chair, but they actually helped him.
That makes them the least successful protest effort since 1977's memorable campaign to
"Keep Pies Away from Anita Bryant." I believe it had something to do with preventing the spread of diabetes.
Variety reports that Letterman surpassed
The Tonight Show in the ratings for the first time in nearly three-and-a-half years while the whole Palin family "Jokegate" debacle was still slowly being scraped off the fan.
Continue reading Letterman has the last laugh on Palin's "Jokegate"
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