{"id":11573,"date":"2013-04-06T18:25:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T01:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=11573"},"modified":"2013-04-06T18:25:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T01:25:58","slug":"leno-letterman-whats-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/04\/06\/leno-letterman-whats-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Leno, Letterman. What’s the difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading this story headlined “David Letterman, Jay Leno Exchange Barbs<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Interesting. \u00c2\u00a0They appear to exchange the same barbs.<\/p>\n

Barb number one, from David Letterman: \u00c2\u00a0I got a call from my mom today, (and) she says, ‘Well, David, I see you didn’t get the ‘Tonight Show’ again.
\n<\/em>Barb number one, from Jay Leno. \u00c2\u00a0Folks, I got to be honest with you, I had a really awkward day today,” he told viewers. “I had to call David Letterman and tell him he didn’t get the\u00c2\u00a0Tonight Show\u00c2\u00a0again. Awful! Terrible<\/em>!
\nBarb number two, from David Letterman: \u00c2\u00a0I happen to know Jay’s got another job on network that has greater viewership, higher ratings \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Univision. He’s going there<\/em>.
\nBarb number two, from Jay Leno. \u00c2\u00a0We’ve all fought, kicked and scratched to get this network up to fifth place, now we have to keep it there! Jimmy, don’t let it slip into sixth! We are counting on you<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This is your “perfunctory” Letterman monologue your “polished for consumption” Leno monologue.<\/p>\n

And, generational ergots, we do ponder… when Letterman will leave alongside Leno, completing a turn-ove<\/a>r. \u00c2\u00a0It does seem likely CBS is about to be “in first place” in the late night ratings all of a sudden — and then it’ll thud when Letterman hangs it up. \u00c2\u00a0And it also seems like Letterman is shading into the spot of unhipness Johnny Carson was in before he announced retirement and suddenly became hip again. \u00c2\u00a0And it does strike me that it’s a little difficult to explain to the young ‘uns that there was a time Letterman was something<\/em>. \u00c2\u00a0But you can go on the list on such a thing. \u00c2\u00a0The Simpsons, for instance, but at least that you have reruns on the teevee — Letterman you’d have to jump to youtube clips.<\/p>\n

Again… what is this format anyway these days and the next days? \u00c2\u00a0We’ll see, won’t we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading this story headlined “David Letterman, Jay Leno Exchange Barbs.” Interesting. \u00c2\u00a0They appear to exchange the same barbs. Barb number one, from David Letterman: \u00c2\u00a0I got a call from my mom today, (and) she says, ‘Well, David, I see you didn’t get the ‘Tonight Show’ again. Barb number one, from Jay Leno. \u00c2\u00a0Folks, I got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11574,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions\/11574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}