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A raconteur, and I don't think the talk show genre has really had one of those in a very long time.
He has two weak elements:
1. Since he is working without a set script (he obviously has an outline) he goes to the same jokes a lot.
2. His skits aren't great. But every once in a while they're great so I sample them each night anyway. A couple weeks ago he did one of the ESPN-UK pieces with Ewan MacGregor that was hilarious (mostly because they were both practically falling on the floor laughing themselves).
But mostly it is just that he doesn't feel it necessary for every question to be the setup for a joke. And that leads to, every once in a while, actually learning something about the people being interviewed. Which is nice.
Jimmy Fallon never had a phase where he made me laugh so I have no interest in checking him out. But he can't be any worse than Chelsea Lately on E! can he?
Oh, has anybody here ever seen the Fox News late night show RedEye? For some reason I find that oddly entertaining in its badness (it isn't particularly political).
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