Movements in Late Night Television
Apparently Conan O’brien is going to launch a live revue show tour. One even blipped up briefly on the Ticketmaster website.
Clever and smart idea, that. 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”.  An additional thought: I would find a way to webcast these productions, or one or two of them. This is meant as much as creative promotion for whatever Conan O’brien’s next television gig is.
No word on any follow up for the “Next Act at a 7/11” line.
I don’t know if the launch of a twitter feed is clever or not, though I guess we note that it is receiving news for a clever random pick of one fan as his “Twitter friend”. She has parlayed her new-found psuedo-fame to promote Breast Cancer Awareness.
In case you care, Letterman has achieve parity in the ratings with Leno.   Maybe Leno needs to get involved in a sex scandal? If you don’t care about that, here’s a career retrospect for Letterman’s career from the late 1960s into 1980. That is, I have to say, a LOT of Bad television. And here’s a couple of old Conan bits. The Museum of Quakery Curator. And a bad copy of the Simpsons voice-overs.