Until the day comes when I get to see Ashley Judd wearing a shirt that says “I love Dan” back-lit by a sunset and fireworks (yes both) standing in front of some majestic mountain we just saved from greedy coal barons, I think this video of Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno and “NBC Man” fighting in 3D might be the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.
Just watch the video. It’s essentially what news in America will look like in 2 years. Get used to it.
All this late night drama has forced me to think… so rare an event.
All this late night drama has forced me to think about folks like Conan O’Brien and David Letterman. In the 80s and early 90s, Letterman was legitimately funny and “edgy”. Visits from Brother Theodore and Calvert DeForrest! Conan more or less carried on Letterman’s wacky legacy with insanity like Pimpbot 5000, in the year 2000, the Masturbating Bear, Coked Up Werewolf, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog — it’s the risk-taking lunacy I liked. Times change of course and you get a job and you can’t stay up so late anymore, and there’s other funny stuff on TV at the same time, and the Internet — boy, the Internet has lots of funny stuff that will make you forget all about late night network TV.
Anyway, I think 5 years from now Jay, Conan, David, Jimmy — they’ll all be gone and replaced by 3D videos of news stories from China.
The End.
