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Craig Kilborn quits The Late late show
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MaddenNFL64
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Maybe Conan will grab a portion of Kilborns old viewers? 
Comfort_Eagle
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Good, he's not funny.
mightynine
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Desperado said:
Yes, because I think he was trying to damned hard. Maybe he could come back to SC now that he's looking for a job.
Speaking of SC Old School, how much did George Grande kick ass last night? Guy hasn't done a SportsCenter in years, and you couldn't tell one bit.
Fine by me, I never really cared too much for it. The whole show seemed to be a giant ego trip for Kilborn. And the way he constantly flirted with every female guest... ugh. It wasn't even in the joking manner that Conan occasionally does. It was just rather sleazy.
Man, I wish they would replace him with Tom Green. I still maintain that his MTV Talk Show was even superior to Conan's. Then again, most of the enjoyment stemmed from the fact that he had no idea what he was doing but still. His "interview" with Aaron Carter will go down in history as one of the greatest television segments of all time...in my mind at least.
JoshuaJSlone
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I never watched his show much, but I'll long remember (and make jokes about with my brother) this one commercial that I thought really showed how much of a low profile his show had compared to the other, more successful late night talk shows.
Full regular ad for The Late Show, followed by "Then watch Craig!" in the space of about 1.5 seconds.
Full regular ad for The Late Show, followed by "Then watch Craig!" in the space of about 1.5 seconds.
FortNinety
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I know people who used to love saying "The Daily Show is not as good without him" and I would respond with "Are you on crack?"
I really liked him on The Daily SHow and was sad when he wasn't there. It took me about 2 years to really warm up to Jon Stewart. It wasn't just Jon though, they re-structured how the show ran and it was just a lot funnier.
The anchors under Kilborn would do normal interviews with people and then change angles and the questions to make it funny. Now the anchors just ask those fucked up questions with a straight face and let the person squirm. Much funnier IMO.
I liked 5 Questions though. Mainly the dudes head exploding though.
The anchors under Kilborn would do normal interviews with people and then change angles and the questions to make it funny. Now the anchors just ask those fucked up questions with a straight face and let the person squirm. Much funnier IMO.
I liked 5 Questions though. Mainly the dudes head exploding though.
That wouldn't necessarily surprise me. As for Kilborn, I thought he could be pretty funny at times, but not as consistently funny as Conan. I liked his Asexual Man segments.element said:
As for replacements, I wouldn't mind Tom Snyder coming back for the show (of course he won't though). It wouldn't beat Conan in the ratings, but you'd be guaranteed good conversations. Really, it's too bad Steve Allen is dead. Course, if he were alive he'd never get the show, but if you wanted unscripted comedy, he was your man. He ad-libbed more stuff in one episode than Leno, Letterman, O'Brian, Kilborn, Stewart, etc. combined do in a week's worth of episodes (plus Allen didn't have 20-30 writers to back him up like the aforementioned hosts do today). And usually those ad-libs were a lot funnier than today's late night hosts scripted stuff. You truly never knew where Allen was going to take you.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
effzee said:
Yep. Not one bit.
The only reason I watched his show was because he had Dave Grohl on so many times. He would let Dave do all sorts of crazy things that musical guests don't normally get to do on talk shows. Usually, artists are just shoved to the tail end of the show and told to go do their radio single. That said, I didn't find him all that funny on the Late Late Show. I didn't even know it was still on. Conan beats him by FAR.
Conan beats him by FAR.AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
I was thinking the exact thing. Grohl's cover of 'Stairway' rocked!
Ninja Scooter
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Teddman said:
Kimmel isn't funnier than ANYTHING. I can't believe that fat fuck's show is still on the air. Its horrible.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I always thought he was a second rate Tom Snyder anyway...and that is saying something. I just never found Kilborn's show funny.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Rorschach said:
That was the best part.
FortNinety
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MASB said:
How come? Did something go down between Snyder and CBS or Letterman?
GG-Duo said:
There were just a ton of awkward moments. Tom didn't know what questions to ask and his audience didn't know how to react to the answers. I suspect that, if it weren't televised, they would've booed Carter off the stage.
I'm probably not doing a very good job of conveying just how entertaining it was. It's kinda a "you had to be there" moment.
It's hard to imagine Tom Green trying to be a real talk show host.
His stuff is about making stupid paintings, putting it in an art gallery, and getting chased by the security guard for manipulating his own art in the art gallery.
That and making his talk show audience members touch his poop.
His stuff is about making stupid paintings, putting it in an art gallery, and getting chased by the security guard for manipulating his own art in the art gallery.
That and making his talk show audience members touch his poop.
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