Letterman Wins... FATALITY!

Via HERE:

Low ratings and high production costs have pushed NBC’s Tonight show with Jay Leno into the red, the New York Post reported today (Friday), citing unnamed insiders. “Leno May Be Next,” the newspaper said in a headline, suggesting that Comcast may replace Leno once it gains control of NBC Universal later this year. “You can’t figure they’re happy about this,” said the newspaper’s source. Ratings for Tonight have fallen below those that Conan O’Brien garnered when he hosted last year. Moreover, the network is shelling out considerably more money for Leno than it did for O’Brien — $30 million per year vs. O’Brien’s $15 million, according to the newspaper, plus the cost of a bigger production staff. What’s more, the Tonight show, whose audience is down 20 percent since Leno left the show a year ago, has been overtaken in the ratings by the ABC newsmagazine Nightline at 11:30 p.m., and Tonight’s ratings appear to have only one way to go once O’Brien enters the late-night fray in the fall. Meanwhile, David Letterman’s ratings remain virtually flat with last year, which, commented the website TVbytheNumbers.com, “is pretty good in the broadcast television world where ‘flat is the new up.’” Letterman’s network, CBS, boasted in a news release on Thursday that Letterman’s Late Show “delivered its most competitive second quarter against The Tonight Show in viewers and key demographics since 1995.

Ever After

SHREK is killing your children and you.

Sort of:

McDonald's Corp. is recalling 12 million glasses sold as a promotional tie-in to the latest "Shrek" movie because they contain the toxic metal cadmium.

In other news on mediocrity, LENO's TONIGHT SHOW IS DOING NO BETTER THAN CONAN'S.

Letterman Disrespects Leno

In the event that you didn't bother watching Dr. Phil on Letterman, here's this clip of Dave continuing to stick it to Jay.

Dana Carvey + Jay Leno = Heartbreakingly Unfunny

EW offered this endorsement of Dana Carvey's recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I was intrigued by the promise of a really good Barack Obama impression—and Carvey's is a lot better than Fred Armisen's, which isn't saying much—but everything else in Carvey's appearance is downright dreadful. Anybody want to see Carvey's Jimmy Stewart impression? His atrocious George Lopez?

More evidence of why Jay Leno's TONIGHT SHOW is vile:

CARVEY: "I think Barack Obama might be too smart to be president..."

[Jay Leno's audience begins wildly hooting and applauding.]

CARVEY: "He should be a professor or something..."

It's a non-joke. It's a preface to a joke. And all these Jay Leno loving nincompoops that they truck in as the studio audience go bonkers at the mere implication that Barack Obama shouldn't be president.

"Too smart to be president"?? How does that make ANY sense? How is it preferable to have an imbecile running the country? Has Fox News so brainwashed these people, so demonized the idea of the "intellectual", that a large swath of Jay-Leno-adoring troglodytes genuinely believe that the Leader of the Free World ought to be DUMBER? Someone who wouldn't make them feel quite so inferior?

Make it stop.

Revised Tonight Show Promo

Now with more appropriate music selection!

Talk Show Desks

SLATE posted an article about the psychology of talk show desk desk placement.

Yep, that's all I've got today.

Hi, how are you?

Harpo Productions Presents Jay Leno in "Spin City"

In case you missed Jay "Big Jaw" Leno's attempt to rehabilitate his tarnished image on the Oprah Winfrey programme, Gawker.tv has all the juicy bits with appropriate commentary:

Jay Leno takes a drive through spin-city on Oprah.

And here's Jimmy Kimmel's reaction to Leno accusing him of "suckerpunching" him on his own stupid show.