How does the push for more diversity in late-night comedy square with a declining viewership?
Tag: “The Tonight Show”
BEING LIKE LOUIS CK: The Modern Comedian, Fame, Fortune and the Law
Comedy today is at a ‘golden age’ and Louis CK is one of the greatest beneficiaries of this new age in comedy. And Louis doesn’t shy away from acknowledging his good fortune: “The amount I get paid by these promoters is crazy…I could make $100,000 in a night,” he said about two years ago to…
JAY LENO: ‘Woulda Coulda Shoulda’ He Pay for Defamation?
Jay Leno knows a thing or two about the occupational hazards of a comedian’s work. In the provocative new book Comedy Under Attack: The Golden Age and the Headwinds, somebody said that stand-up comedy is “the most fun anyone can have with their clothes on.” At least until somebody else gets offended in which case…
THE JAY LENO TRIANGLE: Comedy, Courtroom & Foreign Relations
Funnyman Jay Leno is back in court and we have seen this script before. Just last month, the Sikh religion found itself at the butt of Leno’s jokes and the Sikh faithful did not find the stuff amusing. So, early the next week, Randeep Dhillon, an Indian-American and a Sikh, filed a defamation lawsuit in…
Conan’s NBC: No laughing matter for a funnyman
On Sunday, January 10, NBC made it official that it will cancel the 10 p.m. “Jay Leno Show” effective February 12, and move Leno over to an 11:35 p.m. time slot. For Conan O’Brien, NBC said it would offer the funnyman from Harvard the chance to move his “Tonight Show” back just a half hour…