On Leno, and Conan and what really matters
Leno gets cancelled. Conan strikes back. Kimmel piles on Leno. Letterman piles on Leno, too. NBC flies in the face of logic by giving Leno another shot.
Enough? No wait. Here’s more rich white guys to pile on – TV legend Dick Ebersol does the “classy” thing, and throws Conan under the bus (he probably should really stick to money-losing adventures such as the Olympics, and ruining Sunday Night Football with Toyota ads no one cares about. But I digress).
And in the end, an entire generation who’s basically ignored Late Night TV (at least in real time) finds it a part of their lives again.
Fascinating.
But what’s this really about? A television show. Millions of dollars in revenue split between 4 or 5 rich white guys trying to make us laugh.
There’s no TV in Port-au-Prince tonight. Or water. Or medical supplies. People are dying by the hundreds in Haiti – where the earthquake there has reduced cities to mass chaos. Fifty thousand people or more gone. In seconds.
Craig Ferguson, the forgotten man in all of this, finally acknowledged what’s important.
Diversions are healthy. Our lives all have their own difficulties. But perspective is important. Never forget what really matters.
Thanks for the anchor, Matt.
Maybe if they all just put on an extra hour of coverage of the relief efforts people would remember what really mattered…
Barring that, give the whole damn thing to Ferguson. VIVA LA SCOTS.