I love The Tonight Show, I watch it everyday, sometimes when I am too sleepy, I put an alarm for 11:30pm, get up to watch Jay Leno's monologue, and get back to sleep at around 11:55pm. However, I know I shall stop watching the show in 2009- thats the year the mantle will pass from Jay Leno to Conan O Brien. I admire Jay and detest Conan, the latter's talk show immediately follows Jay's shows and sometimes, I have made the indiscretion of watching Conan's shows. He is so self possesed that it not so much about the guest as it is about him. He comes across to me as condescending and obnoxious, two qualities I cannot tolerate in anyone.
By contrast, Jay is one of the most professional hosts I have ever seen. He makes jokes about everyone and yet, is able to maintain their dignity in a manner that is fascinating. I started watching the show last year and got hooked onto it- he was making as much fun of Kerry as Bush and though evidently, he is a Democrat in his leanings, it was clear he would be taking potshots at Kerry if he won the elections. What I like most about Jay is that he is able to bring out the true personality of the individual he is talking to and whatever celebrity status they may have, he is able to extricate the true human side of them that makes them appear like they are one of us- just luckier and more talented!
I know what I will be doing post 2009- watching old tapes of Jay Leno!
Mohit.
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