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...insulated compared to Conan, but he was such a good friend of mine that it was very hard to have to watch him deal with that stuff. It'll always be the thing I'm proudest of because it was such a bizarre challenge to succeed David Letterman, maybe the funniest ever to do that kind of work. But after a year and a half I just couldn't do the five-day-a-week grind. But I never really left the show. Then there was the Dana Carvey thing, which was a show that we all thought was funny...
...joined by Jesse Jackson (whom one WABC spieler absently referred to as "Reverend Sharpton") and Robert Wexler ("one of the most vicious Clinton defenders," according to one of Grant's guests), the Radio Right hosts were ecstatic. They feed on familiar figures of liberal fun the way David Letterman milked the name "Buttafuoco" for years of monologues...
...Tonight show (1954-57), a prime-time variety show on NBC (1956-60) and two late-night talk shows in the 1960s, Allen invented the style that TV hosts from David Letterman to Craig Kilborn are still developing. He looked for comedy in everyday trivia, taking a mike into the audience or turning on a camera outside the studio and simply commenting on people coming in and out of the Hollywood Ranch Market across the street. In one recurring bit, he would pick up a copy of the New York Daily News, don a cornball press hat and read angry...
...From Allen's Alley came 50 or so books, nearly 8,000 songs (why?), a clever if starchy Great Men of History chat series called "Meeting of Minds" and a few more incarnations of the "Tonight" format (including a syndicated show in the late '60s that profoundly influenced David Letterman). He kept up the productive pace, but for smaller, older audiences - the remnants of the pop intelligentsia he had helped form. If Mensa had a nightclub for its senior members, he'd be the lounge...
...middle of comedy Thursday--when Al Gore did Rosie and Regis, Bush did Letterman, and both candidates did the roast-like Al Smith dinner--they separately taped halves of a conversation for an introduction to Sunday Nov. 5's Saturday Night Live's Presidential Bash 2000. Both played to their stereotypes not only on camera but off camera as well. After just one insipid sentence--"Hi, I'm Al Gore, Democratic candidate for President"--Gore began micromanaging. "I thought that line was out," he said. Meanwhile, Bush asked SNL writer Jim Downey to include even more malapropisms. After stumbling over...