Word: leno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stars stand-up comedian Chris Spencer; Keenen is fronted by the creator of the sketch-comedy show In Living Color. Both hosts are black; both sit on an easy chair with a coffee table in front of them when they interview guests. Meanwhile, David Letterman has a desk. Jay Leno has a desk. Conan O'Brien has a desk. All three are white. With its monologue, its band, its celebrity entrances, the late-night show is highly ritualized, so this variation in iconography is surely significant. What accounts...
Worked up isn't a state we often find late-night network talk-show hosts in, unless, of course, they happen to be in the presence of Isabella Rossellini's cheekbones. Affecting neither David Letterman's iconically apathetic cool nor Jay Leno's rote giddiness, Maher has drawn a surprisingly large audience to his witty roundtable show, which left its original home, Comedy Central, last November...
...have hit Leno or Letterman yet, but Avery W. Gardiner '97 is already fodder for political humor...
...spring, with both the Globe's sting operation and the news that his daughter Victoria, from his first marriage, is divorcing Michael Kennedy because Kennedy cheated on her with the family baby-sitter. Gifford surely doesn't deserve to be the subject of so many monologue jokes by Jay Leno and Letterman. Frank has to answer to Kathie Lee. Albert, on the other hand, has to answer to the Arlington authorities this week, when he is arraigned on the charges. One of the attorneys defending him will be John Q. Kelly, proving once again that this is a small world...
...trying to reassert its hard-news credentials. Good Morning America, the No. 1-rated morning show for much of the '90s, has slipped into second place, well behind NBC's Today show. Of course the network still has the indispensable Nightline, which frequently beats both Letterman and Leno in the late-night ratings; two successful prime-time magazine shows in 20/20 and PrimeTime Live; and the most impressive array of news stars in television. But one of them, Diane Sawyer, could use a window in her contract to jump to CBS, while several others--Jennings, Barbara Walters, Sam Donaldson...