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Whose your favorite late night talk show host?

Posted - October 3, 2018

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  • "Johnny Carson"

      October 4, 2018 12:36 AM MDT
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  • 44601
    Same here. Nobody else even comes close.
      October 4, 2018 7:46 AM MDT
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  • 8214
    No one like Johnny, he was the greatest.
      October 4, 2018 11:43 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    Never understood why people found him amusing.  And he was on for years.  Perhaps I was too young for his brand of humor.  Which I always thought OK this is supposed to be funny?
      October 11, 2018 7:24 PM MDT
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  • I don't believe that late night talk shows were suppose to be just about humor.  There were also special celebrity guests talking about their latest work, schedule or situation. I'm not an authority on the subject because I always worked the night shift and can't really tell you much about any of them, but I do know the reputation of Mr. Carson and it appears that the AM membership does too.

    In regards to humor, there are many styles/types of humor and I don't think I've ever met anyone that liked them all.  I know I don't.  I'm sure you realize that a comedian has to consider his/her audience. A late night show's audience would be mostly adults, so the humor would be of adult style or nature.  You did say that you were "too young" ... they expected you to be in bed. 
      October 11, 2018 8:00 PM MDT
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  • 1502
    None of the current ones. They’re all pretty much the same. 
      October 4, 2018 5:14 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    I must admit that I can't stay up that late these days unless I have no work the following day, but Stephen Colbert would be my pick.  Of course, no one comes close to Johnny Carson whose I stayed up for all the time.
      October 4, 2018 8:35 AM MDT
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  • 11101
    I really like Stephen Colbert he does a real good Trump impressing. Cheers!
      October 4, 2018 9:35 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    He does.  :)
      October 4, 2018 10:23 PM MDT
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  • 53502

      (impressing impersonation)
      October 11, 2018 7:32 PM MDT
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  • 8214
    Jimmy Fallon used to be funny until he got political like all the rest.  It's the reason I don't watch any of the award shows.  What Hollywood doesn't they all have become one big activist turn-off.  They have aligned themselves with the violent left.  We all are watching the decline of Hollywood and what it used to stand for. 
      October 4, 2018 11:38 AM MDT
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  • 1502
    Exactly. By the time I was old enough to stay up and watch them the great ones were gone. When I want to watch comedy and/or late night shows I don’t want to hear about politics regardless of their beliefs. That’s what the news is for. This post was edited by Rizz at October 11, 2018 8:57 PM MDT
      October 11, 2018 6:07 PM MDT
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  • 53502

      (show's shows)

      Plural noun, not possessive singular noun. 
      October 11, 2018 7:33 PM MDT
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  • 1502
    Yea. I know the difference. It was a stupid autocorrect by my iPad I didn’t catch. 
      October 11, 2018 7:39 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    I always tape Steven Colbert for his monologue.  He's one hour of the five shows I tape weekdays.  No time for anyone else.
      October 4, 2018 1:07 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    havent been watching thenn lately
      October 4, 2018 3:01 PM MDT
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  • 17592
    *Who's*
      October 4, 2018 9:11 PM MDT
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  • 3523
    Good one.  No one else caught that.  Because of spell check and calculators my spelling and arithmetic are going downhill. Or is it old age?
      October 4, 2018 10:17 PM MDT
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  • 53502

      (Whose Who's)

    It's a contraction of who + is or who + has.


      October 4, 2018 10:56 PM MDT
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  • Steve Allen, although he was a little before my time, and of course the one, the only Johnny Carson.  
      October 11, 2018 5:48 PM MDT
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  • 7792
    Certainly no one right now. Back in the day, Johnny Carson was king.
      October 11, 2018 5:51 PM MDT
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  • 6098
    Whenever I used to watch his program, which was not often, I always felt I had wandered into some kind of private club where everyone seemed to be having a great time but I never got the joke. 
      October 11, 2018 7:21 PM MDT
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  • 6098
    Have much better things to do late night than listen to talk shows.  Like sleeping.  
      October 11, 2018 6:27 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Who I live with ....:)
      October 11, 2018 7:40 PM MDT
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