Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 05, 2010

And we know how well the suits handled THAT situation don’t we?

So, he’s the one who still watches NBC.

Or we have the early bedtimes to handle it.

Fallon .

Brian Williams should start getting nervous - I hear Leno wants to take over the Nightly News next!

I just ignore them all in favor of comic strips online. Much more consistently funny, and I can add my own input here if I want to.

Leno has lots of cars to work on at home

I’m in the “None of the Above” camp. Just don’t watch it at all.

I watch Mondays also, for Headlines. My favorites are the wedding announcements.

i wonder if joe and victoria’s wedding announcement will be on leno’s headlines?

I get up at 5 AM, forget the late shows. I do watch Letterman on occasion. Leno just doesn’t cut it for me.

I get up at 4am, so forget the late shows even more for me… Plus, I don’t even think they’re that funny… so…

I only watch “headlines” after that zzzzzzzzzz.

Wiley-

Thank you for all the laughs.

YES Wiley, thank you for the laughs.

I notice they are not both drinking beer. Has that always been the situation?

Wiley, thanks for the “sort”. Wish you could put Ferguson at 10:30 and just outright fire Leno….and Kimmel and that other guy, etc.

the networks just need to go in a NEW direction for after news tv watching.

a long time ago I saw a great toon about a lady being polled and her response was “Letterman?, oh I just turn off the volume and use him as a night light…”

Yes those headlines are great! Haven’t watched them in years though.

@pearlandpeach, I agree with you 100%! Ferguson is the funniest on TV, BY FAR. We DVR him and watch him over dinner the next day. Never fails to have us ROFLAO before long. Someday Fallon may be a close second, but not yet.

I don’t watch any of them. They’re not funny enough to lose sleep over. plus I get up @2AM

somebodyshort, yep me too.

I just wish somebody would pay me 40 million to go away. Hint, hint.

I’m just going to watch Lopez on TBS instead.

I stand corrected. Or rather, I’m sitting corrected. He’s the one who still watches Letterman.

I rarely am up at that time to watch any of them, but if I am awake and there’s nothing else on, I’ll watch Letterman.

Who?

Sorry guys. Popular Culcha ain’t got nothing to do with Culture.

Sorry, after 10:00 I start turning into a pumpkin. No late nite TV for me.

fedbuhl, I think you’ve got it right now. Personally, I believe Leno could have made it in primetime if he had been on one evening a week. The people who watch late night type shows are a special breed and it doesn’t carry over to primetime.

Radish you have the right idea. No need to be up till 2 am when you can catch your favs the next day. Oh Wiley it appears that you enjoy Letterman like I do along with Craig Ferguson and Daily on NBC.

I started watching George Lopez on TBS when all this hoo-hah started…found out he is funnier and has a better show than any of ‘em…

Hmmm….good book or bad TV…what to do….

It’s Stewart and Colbert for me. Ten times funnier than the others, although I have to admit Ferguson is a lot of fun. I usually don’t care much for interviews….

Creniere, well put. There is very little that is more entertaining than a good book. Christopher Moore, Carl Hiaasen, Nevada bar, Robert Crais, G.M. Ford, Christopher Buckley, Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, etc….

thanks for the “umbrella”,Wiley.

Johnny Carson reruns. He was the best there ever was in late night.

Dra, I love Hiaasen’s books. Makes Dave Barry’s writings look like a piker’s.

I’m with Henderson - Steve Allen was good, but Carson was the best… by far.

Leno’s never been good for more than 10-15 minutes. O’Brien’s never been good. They should’ve gone with Arsenio.

Steve Allen was in another universe. It’s a difficult comparison to make.

Wiley is a Genius! Love the strip; but don’t have a clue what they’re talking about! ok, something called a “tv” and late night…

@ fredbuhl = you are correct, Allen was a show unto himself.

He and Carson are shows that will never be copied

Who are those people?

I guess I’m in the Steve Allen camp. Steve was hip. Carson was only with it…

I don’t know any of their names, all I know is I prefer the old guy over the guy with the big jaw or the guy with the funny hair.

Carson was OK, Steverino (Allen) was the absolute BOMB, but Ernie Kovacs was the originator of so many things, it’s just not a fair competition.

Other than ESPN, TCM, TWC or CBS during pro football, Syracuse basketball or March Madness, the ONLY show I watch (off DVR or DVD) is SyFy’s “Eureka”. Otherwise, the last primetime show I watched ANY part of was the 1st episode of “Cheers”, plus I DID watch the last Johnny Carson Show (w/ Bette Midler)…my nieces say I’m “weird”…

Hey there is the THOUGHT, a net work that shows Johnny Carson, Steve Allen, Jack Parr on alternating nights, using the guest hosts to fill in the other nights. Maybe we should pitch that to Oprah and her new network………..