It's On?

Kudos to Conan for sacking up to the peacock. That's right, kids, I just managed sack, cock, and Onan in the same sentence. Behold.

I have to confess that when Conan came out from behind the camera in '93, I had low expectations. Yes, he wrote for SNL (and a lengthy list of other shows). But I didn't find him that funny out front, and frankly, as a long-time Letterman devotee, I just wasn't interested in a guy who looked like he just leapt off a box of Lucky Charms (Vitamin D...0%)

But the guy has paid his dues, and as far as TV hosts go, he's better and funnier than Leno. I've said it in a previous post, but Leno lost his edge when he took the helm of The Tonight Show. He was a great comic and an absolute favorite on Letterman in the 80's. I saw him at Wolftrap in Virginia ca. 1988, and he killed. And Wolftrap is an open-air venue. You know, some seats, and then a sea of people sitting on grass with coolers. It's not every comic who can do that, and this was before most of America knew him.

I don't pretend to understand the inner machinations of network television, but I think NBC is fucking this up. And Leno - unlike a lot of comics who migrate to TV - still has a stand-up act. He could have a theater built for him in Vegas tomorrow. I'd watch that show.