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My first thought is, why not Ellen? Appealing enough personality. People like Ellen.

But then, for all I know, her daytime gig is considered bigger potatoes than latenight.

Don't rightly know how these things stack up these days.

Do demographics dictate it has to be a man? What about Tina Fey?
 
Unless I am totally misreading the world, no one would take Colbert over Jon Stewart given a choice. But Stewart must be very well taken care of in his current position and doesn't want it.

My assumptions about that.

I don't think those network gigs have anywhere near the cache they once did (and the fact they are giving one to a marginal dude like Stephen Colbert kinda lends credence to that viewpoint IMO.)
 
Out of curiosity, I looked up some numbers pertaining to my thought of Ellen for the CBS latenite gig. Although many of them have other revenue streams, these are supposed to be salary figures for their shows only

Leno - ended up at 25 million per year
Letterman - 14 million
Jon Stewart - 16 million
Conan - 12
Chelsea fucking Handler - 12
Craig Ferguson - 8.5
Kimmel - 8
Colbert - 6 million for The Colbert Report
Fallon - 5



And Ellen Degeneres . . . drumroll please . . .

50 million




(Oprah - 75)
 
Ellen at 50 million is crazy nonsense

I know women in my town funnier than her

Ellen at 50 mil, Stewart at 16 mil explains a lot

I vote Craig Ferguson but I believe I am in the minority there, and I'm not sure his version of funny would appeal to the masses
 
Caught the movie 42 (2013), the biopic of Jackie Robinson.

Racists are turds, was a thought that occurred to me repeatedly. Sometimes I think they are other things. Idiots. Cowering morons. But at the heart of it, more than anything, they are turds. They have the beauty and usefulness of turds lying in grass.

This is not much of a movie really. Feels like it was assembled from a kit. Strictly on movie-making merit, it would have to be a thumbs down but it is elevated by the subject matter which I found undeniably compelling and satisfying.

5.4 out of 10.

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I find the ongoing notion that John Hamm does a great job playing Don Draper ridiculous. It is the easiest role of all time with a required range from serious to stern to unsmiling. It's almost impossible to screw up. On the rare occasions where he ventures outside that tiny little box, he's not particularly good - just as he's really ordinary or worse in everything else I've seen him in.

I guess time will tell and we'll see what kind of career he has after Mad Men. My prediction: not much of a one.

THAT IS ALL!


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Yeah, if anything he was a great casting choice. Guy barely has to act.

I still find him effective in delivering the free-market ideology, getting annoyed at the hippies and all. Some of the lines are fairly intellectual in nature and he doesn't sound too phony when delivering them.

But yeah, the role will probably stick to him for the rest of his life. I don't see him parlaying Don Draper into something bigger. That is it.
 
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