{"id":5625,"date":"2010-03-10T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2010-03-10T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:22:00","slug":"movements-in-late-night-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/03\/10\/movements-in-late-night-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Movements in Late Night Television"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently Conan O’brien is going to launch a live revue show tour.\u00c2\u00a0 One even blipped up briefly on the Ticketmaster website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clever and smart idea, that.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess you try for the basic structure of the late night talk show format, tweak it in several places, perhaps — I guess you lean a bit more heavily on a stage production skit than the, you know, “talk”. \u00c2\u00a0An additional thought:\u00c2\u00a0 I would find a way to webcast these productions, or one or two of them.\u00c2\u00a0 This is meant as much as creative promotion for whatever Conan O’brien’s next television gig is.<\/p>\n

No word on any follow up for\u00c2\u00a0the “Next Act at a 7\/11” line.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0launch of\u00c2\u00a0a twitter feed<\/a> is clever or not,\u00c2\u00a0though I guess we note that it is\u00c2\u00a0receiving news for a clever random pick of one fan as his “Twitter friend”.\u00c2\u00a0 She has parlayed her new-found psuedo-fame to promote Breast Cancer Awareness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In case you care, Letterman has achieve parity in the ratings with Leno<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe Leno needs to get involved in a sex scandal?\u00c2\u00a0 If you don’t care about that, here’s a career retrospect for Letterman’s career from the late 1960s into 1980<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 That is, I have to say, a LOT of Bad television.\u00c2\u00a0 And here’s a couple of old Conan bits. The Museum of Quakery Curator<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And a bad copy of the Simpsons voice-overs.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently Conan O’brien is going to launch a live revue show tour.\u00c2\u00a0 One even blipped up briefly on the Ticketmaster website. Clever and smart idea, that.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess you try for the basic structure of the late night talk show format, tweak it in several places, perhaps — I guess you lean a bit more […]<\/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-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","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=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5627,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/5627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}