Hockey Rhetoric

Seven months ago there wasn’t a person in this country who didn’t know that Leno was moving to prime-time and that Conan would be taking over The Tonight Show at the 11:30 time slot. Now look, there’s not many people my age that care less about late night television talk shows than I do but even I was curious enough to tune in on Conan’s first week. I wanted to see what his stage would look like, how his jokes would be received, and how well he was able to interact with the guests. NBC and other media folks had made such a big deal out of what was happening with The Tonight Show, I eventually gave in. After watching a couple of nights worth of shows I thought it was cool and seemed pretty well done if you’re into that sort of thing but I’m not and so I didn’t make a habit of turning on Conan at 11:30 every night. » Read the rest of this entry «