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...Undergraduate Council's opening meeting, elections for the student government's top four positions will take place. Political speeches will be given by experienced council members dressed in their finest semi-formal attire. They will cleverly combine references to pop culture, jokes originally written for Jay Leno and attacks on the U.C.'s dauntless persecutor (The Crimson). The winners, as always, will be those candidates whose speeches sound remotely like what normal people actually say to one another...
Stand-up comics can get chewed up fast in TV. First they are squeezed dry of material by Letterman, Leno and the other talk-show bloodsuckers. Then, if they grow popular enough, they are plucked from their solo job and awarded a sitcom. There, major pitfalls await them. Some are exposed as Johnny-one-notes (Kevin Meaney in Uncle Buck); others are simply unable to make the transition from joke telling to character building (Richard Lewis in Anything but Love). Only a few -- Roseanne Arnold, Tim Allen -- succeed without selling...
...Arsenio, the grievance is personal, though he won't reveal its nature. For Leno, the response is bafflement. "People keep calling me and asking, 'What is this fight between you?' I don't know! I don't know! I haven't said anything bad. This is someone who used to be at my house every day. Although we haven't talked much in the past three years." In a recent phone conversation -- in show-biz terms it was a summit meeting -- Leno asked Hall, "So what's the problem? If you're going to do something...
This was not the way it was supposed to be. As Carson's heir, Leno would bring both familiarity and freshness to the slot. He would book hipper musical guests and reclaim part of Arsenio's audience. And with his camp-counselor personality, he would retain Carson's senior fans. All this has indeed come to pass. If Hall gets the headlines with shows featuring Ice-T on the hot seat or Bill Clinton torturing a saxophone, Leno still wins where it counts: equaling or surpassing Carson's ratings and ad revenue. The difference is that all this...
...Leno and Arsenio star in a low-blow battle of talk-show hosts...