When I was young, it was Leno and Letterman. Carson retired by the time I noticed. Then came Conan Obrien.
Aside from the occasion top ten from Letterman, I didn't really get into watching these shows. Now it seems like there are 10 or so late shows
That seems to be a bit much. Ratings would probably be difficult, even if the hosts were decent.
Did you ever get into watching late shows? Do you watch them or just catch a clip from time to time?
Only Conan.
shareNot since Johnny Carson retired.
One almost had the unfortunateness of growing up with him.
By the time one was actually staying up late enough to watch "The Tonight Show" , which was around the mid 80s, he was it. It was him and whomever was out there trying to beat him. No one did.
The unfortunateness is something I believe to this day, he is much better than the rest. I did give Leno and Letterman a shot, brief ones at that. They're not as good.
As far as the current crop- Kimmel, Fallon, Colbert - I've checked them, once again, they can't compete with Johnny Carson. Not even close.
I liked Carson and Leno.
I started watching them around 1987 when I was 12, on Friday nights during the school year and most nights during summer vacation. I thought Johnny Carson was boring but David Letterman was hilarious. Back then Letterman came on after Carson on the same network.
Letterman's show wasn't as good when he moved from NBC to CBS in 1993, and I thought Conan O'Brien was annoying (and his sidekick Andy Richter was even more annoying). Jay Leno's "humor" was as generic and unfunny as Johnny Carson's was, and since Letterman's new CBS show was running in the same time slot as Leno's, I always watched Letterman's show. Even with it not being as good as when he was on NBC, it was still far better than Leno's show.
For the most part I stopped watching TV in the late 1990s so I don't know what's been going on with late night talk shows for the past quarter century, nor do I care.
Late night TV is for BORED people!
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