Leno Replaces Conan on Tonight Show...

Katrina was pretty hilarious iirc

yeah all that stagnant water

I kind of hate listening to Bill Hicks. What was the joke?

The gist of it was that Leno had turned his back on his edgier, some might say funnier, days and become this bland idiot talk show host type of a comic.

Leno was now attempting to appeal to the very type of people he would've sneered at when he was a young comic.

Maybe Denis Leary can do the same joke but about Conan.

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I love the Bill Hicks joke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI3s9JzaIZE - plz to ignore the visuals) but after watching Leno's "legendary" Letterman appearances on youtube, I'm of the opinion that if leno was EVER funny, it wasn't on TV.

http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/782/782083/top-10-buddy-cop-films-20070419035456482.jpg

The only thing stopping these two cops from solving the crime of the century...is each other.

Yeah, that Bill Hicks bit...HIGHlarious. What a miserable fuck that dude was.

sounds pretty cool to me. HA HA

i don't know he tells it like it is

people who don't smoke will die too lol

Did Jay Leno kill his damn grandmother or anything? No, he did a commercial for Doritos. That clearly calls for a joke that centers around firing an Uzi into his mouth.

Let's not pretend that Bill Hicks was cerebral or thoughtfully provocative. He was an angry, bitter hack.

beats a bland, boring hack

tbf leno's face begs for it x-post

xp

Nah, I can ignore bland, boring hacks and move on. No harm done. Bill Hicks has perverted the idea of what stand up is for a sizeable portion of a generation.

What's funny about Hicks is how overrepresented his fan base was on the internet for such a long time. Tributes to Hicks from bands like Tool and Radiohead probably furthered that.

I thought the funniest stuff Hicks ever did was his vanilla jokes on Letterman. I am personally okay with what he was all about - I just think he forgot to be funny most of the time.

Bill Hicks on the MTV Half-Hour Comedy Hour(hosted by Mario Joyner) was great to 13 year old me

I have gotten pulled into watching half of the Jimmy Fallon show every night since Conan started, I am the problem with America

i saw "la bamba" tonight!

I very, very few times I've seen Carson Daly in the last few years was just fine, b/c he'd have on worthwhile bands.

Then I'd switch it off to see if "Ace of Cakes" was on. I gots priorities.

In the very, very

rather

the thing abt hicks is that george carlin was so much better & more pointed in his critiques of shit that was 'wrong with society' or whatever + funnier. whereas hicks was a joyless dude who made fun of ppl who like to, i dont know, dance, or lead healthy lifestyles

so wrong. i agree that his martyr shtick got tiresome but i don't think he was joyless or unfunny.

xpost that shit is mad funny if you have a proper amount of distance, which most of his fans clearly lack

roommate, to me, discussing his 4 bill hicks DVDs yesterday--

"The thing about Bill is that he was less a comedian and more just like...a truth-teller, you know?"

The thing about Bill is that he was a comedian.

Hicks could be a hateful motherfucker and there's sort of a cathartic element to that. I don't think he was totally joyless though, he'd let his humanity poke through here and there. Probably most explicitly in his "it's all a ride" and "we are all one" acid inspired... stuff.

hoos: your roomie--he's still in college, right?

I really love Bill Hicks, but he certainly had his flaws.

Yeah he's got one more year xp

okie. was worried for a sec.

im overstating the case against hicks. but i really do prefer carlin

Wait til dude tells you about global cooling though lb, that's when the dude will really expand your understanding of the world.

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http://www.seriouslunch.com/misc/seriouslunch_conan.gif

WHOA!

Hahaha

no way!
I knew that bg looked familiar

i've already reverted to Letterman

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/files/uploads/celestial_sphere.jpg

what is standup, johnny fever?

hate is a key part of humanity. i like seeing it represented in comedy.

Perrin clarifies that he doesn't dislike Conan, just thinks he won't work on Tonight. Says Fallon is godawful and getting worse:

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2009/06/prof-cheap-laffs-explains.html

Tonight isn't going to be Tonight anymore, oldies

im overstating the case against hicks. but i really do prefer carlin

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if you don't, there's something wrong w/ u

I can't define standup any easier than you can, Morbs. But I know when it's being mistreated by a goon.

O_O jeff!

did anyone else lol at the riffing on "In The Year 2000" before they started the sketch

I thought the 2000->3000 thing was awkward and lame and it seemed like the audience thought so too