Turn Late Night Talk Into Late Night Monologue
One question that seems to have been overlooked in the recent brouhaha at NBC over the futures of Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and the network’s late-night franchises is: Who needs it?
Why not just do away with late night talk shows?
After all, the bulk of these shows – regardless of network – is nothing more than a gabfest in the middle of the night that deals with all the minutiae of celebrity lives that nobody in his or her right mind should care about and which are punctuated by an endless series of commercials. Who really wants to watch that?The only part of these shows worth watching are the monologues.
So our proposal would be for NBC, ABC and CBS to sign a deal in which Leno, Conan, David Letterman, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon would all get together each night for an hour-long show which would be comprised only of monologues.
Harmony would be restored. Conan could perform. And journalists could actually write about the important issues of our day.
Of course, as with every solution there are unforeseen problems: if this were to happen, a lot of late-night bandleaders would be put out of work.
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