Quoted Text

The safe choice isn't necessarily the better show.

I'm down with this.
Letterman and Conan speak to me more than Leno.

Air Canada or Westjet ... Wendy's or Burger King... Avis or Hertz... Leno or Letterman.

Everyone has a preference, and nobody is right or wrong. I'm a Letterman fan through & through, and always have been.  In fact, I was 'on the show' about 4 or 5 years ago... sorta. I got my letter read by Dave during his 'CBS Mailbag' feature.

To me, Dave one-ups Jay in almost every category, although I will give leno this - he is the better pure stand-up. But, lets be realistic... both of them have a legion of writers that provide them with some, or all of their 'material'. Jay just has that true 'stand-up' delivery that Dave doesn't have.  

That being said...I think Letterman has superior interview skills, has better comedy bits, has a better musical sidekick, and has better staple features (Top 10, Great moments in Presidential speeches, Know your current events etc.)... and just has a better overall show.

If you poll 100 people on the street as to who the best late-night host is, you'll probably get a bunch of different answers. Leno, Letterman, Conan, Colbert, Ferguson, Kimmel etc. Nobody is right & nobody is wrong.

In the end, Letterman and Leno are both legends, and it'll be really weird to have only ONE of the two on the air come next May.

Letterman is first a broadcaster, that's where his roots are.  As such he is successor to a long line of late night hosts that featured  Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Dick Cavett and Johnny Carson.

Jay is the heir to the vaudeville-based throne that began with Jerry Lester and Joey Bishop.

Quoted from paddyboyy

How many under 30's watch either Leno OR Letterman?

15? 20?

Face it, they are for old fogeys. Conan just isn't funny at all.
Why the big hulaballoo about getting rid of Leno so they don't lose Conan?
Stay, go, who cares.

I thought I read that 4.8 million viewers care for Leno, and 3.5 million care for Letterman.
They are paying each of these entertainers millions of dollars a year.
So the networks care, obviously, and so do the millions of viewers.
Under 30's with little disposable income?

Who cares!

Quoted from Masterofnothing

Leno always had the more "intelligent" humor.

Yikes, Brutha.

Yikes.

Quoted from HairForRadio

Yikes, Brutha.

Yikes.

Okay ... get Conan on earlier and call it "Late Night Jackass" with Coooonnnaaaannnn-O-B-R-i-a-nnnnnn -    same, same, lame ....