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Posted by: lenseview 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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February ratings numbers for late night TV -- Leno, Letterman, others -- are down. Some of decrease may be explained by unique factors (e.g., lower prime-time #s, writer strike effects) but some too may reflect a general downward trend...

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DropkickaLib5 months, 2 weeks ago

Could be because they aren't funny anymore. I used to watch Letterman religiously when Late Night first started back in the early 80's and he was unpredictable and hilarious. He had fake guests because he couldn't get the big names on his show and it was 10 times funnier. He's fallen into a boring formula since then...just drawing a massive paycheck. Leno, on the other hand, hasn't been funny since he took over the Tonight Show. If anyone can remember his comedy act before then, he was much funnier.
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Harbeas5 months, 2 weeks ago

Never watched any of them. They were on too late at night!
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Locky125 months, 2 weeks ago

One big reason is that politics is too much a part of their act.
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GHOSTWHOWALKS5 months, 2 weeks ago

What Hollywood calls funny, I call stupid. This applies to late night as well as prime time.
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  DropkickaLib5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  If you watch those old episodes of the original Saturday Night Live, the humor was much more risque and edgey than anything you'd see now.
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