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May 4, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Late Night TV Is Done. Over. Finished. Through.
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You know, in my generation, we remember hearing or actually being a part of the late night, the great...
Moments of late night.
From Jack Parr, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas.
But it was daytime.
But still, it was just wonderful.
Variety shows.
But at night, it was wonderful.
I remember the Tomorrow Show.
The Tomorrow Show.
Talk about late night.
Late.
It was wonderful.
I used to watch that in high school.
We never had VCRs.
If you wanted to watch it, you had to watch it.
And I'm up to one, two.
I remember one time watching Charles Manson.
And one of my dear friends, the greatest moment ever when Pat Cooper was on, that was the best.
That's what I grew up with.
That's what I grew up with.
But that is over.
That's done.
What we're seeing right now is something that is just incomprehensibly horrible.
Horrible.
Now, I want to talk about that for a moment.
But I also want to talk about something which is really interesting for me.
Really interesting.
And that is something called an EMP.
Now most people, chances are if you're watching me, you know what an electromagnetic pulse is.
If I were to tell you a Carrington event, if I were to tell you some absolutely monumental electromagnetic pulse, some solar flare catastrophe, or...
I don't know.
All this balloon stuff.
You know, there's some people who are opining that what a wonderful delivery system that might be for something horrid!
Well, let me talk to you about these great folks at EMP Shield.
They've invented a device that you can hook up to your vehicle or your home that will protect against the threat of an EMP.
And the technology has undergone testing at Keystone Compliance, which is a military certified facility.
It's listed by the Department of Homeland Security, and what I want you to do is I want you to go to this link and just see for yourself what I'm talking about.
It is incredible, and it is so monumentally wise.
It's called EMP Shield.
There's the information.
Do your research.
Just read for yourself, and you'll think, oh my God.
This is real, kiddos.
This is not a joke.
This is something that I think you know about.
So it's called EMP Shield and use that link and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Now, let's talk about some things.
Some things just end.
Disco, flared leg, bell bottoms, things.
It just kind of ends.
Certain things end.
In my, again, my generation, we went from 45s and then LPs and then cassettes and A-tracks.
We went from AM to FM to every kind of rock there was, actual concerts.
It was, listen, I think mine was the best generation ever.
Not the greatest generation, but pretty close to it, in terms of what we enjoyed.
And when it came to Late Night, and the guy who really changed it, In current time, I think one of the most important pioneers was David Letterman.
David Letterman did one of the greatest...
When David Letterman first started, it was so unique and mondo.
Late at night.
SNL.
I never thought SNL was as great as they think.
I never got Belushi.
Never understood it.
Never got it.
SCTV was genius.
I know that's comedy.
It's a different genre.
I understand.
Notice I speak French.
Genre, milieu, oeuvre.
Anyway.
But Jon Stewart, in terms of late night, I remember his letterman, then he left, but Jon Stewart really was, he was less obnoxious.
He was better.
And at his peak, he pretty much invented, he gave Carell and what's her name, B, whatever her name is, Samantha B. She lasted about an hour.
She was on the Small Engine Repair Network, if I recall correctly, but Steve Carell, him, Rigglesworth, or whatever his name is, and then, of course, Colbert, and all these other people.
And then, right at the height, or the height, as people say, at the peak, at the peak of this incredible moment, when Donald Trump came along, when John Stewart was, I mean, when he...
Can you imagine four years of Trump?
He quits!
He quits!
To run a petting zoo in Jersey or whatever the hell he did.
I don't know what.
And it's over.
Colbert came along.
Awful.
Kimmel, awful.
Jimmy Fallon, I don't get it.
This fake laughing.
It's like the Seinfeld with the comedians in cars with the coffee.
Everything...
Have you heard when these comedians, they sit around and they make lame jokes?
And they laugh like they're going to die.
There's just this...
Listen, it was very sad when Norm Crosby died.
But come on!
Norm Crosby!
Did I say Norm Crosby?
I did say Norm Crosby.
Norm Crosby was a loss too.
Norm MacDonald.
MacDonald.
Norm Crosby.
Bing Crosby, Norm Crosby, Norman Mailer, do the math.
But even when Norm Macdonald died, they thought this is the end of civilization.
This is the end.
The greatest comedy mind of all.
Everything's as superlative as it.
Okay?
Norm Macdonald?
This was it?
Seriously?
Okay.
I'm not going to argue against who was the greatest.
Remember when Bob Saget?
Bob Saget!
Don't get me started with that story.
Don't look.
Look the other way.
Yeah, but should we be...
Don't you want to maybe talk about...
Nope.
Don't you think we should maybe kind of look at maybe some of the...
Do you want to go through that factual...
Nope.
Okay.
Especially when the family says...
I don't want to get into it.
Alright.
Okay.
Fair enough.
Don't look at me.
I'm not going to bring that one up.
But that was another one.
The greatest funny comedy!
I'm sorry, but I happened to be around seeing some great, I mean, trends.
I remember seeing Richard Pryor in my friend and I saw him in Townville.
At the High Life Frontion years ago.
And he had just made the movie Bingo Long or something like that.
What's the name?
It was a very interesting thing.
Bingo Long and the whatever the...
Yeah, Bingo Long Traveling All-Star and Motor Kings.
It was in 76, yep.
And he came out.
Richard Pryor and my friend and I were there.
We didn't notice who was who, and he put the light on it.
He goes, yeah, you traveled in packs, too.
We were only two white people there, I think.
I don't know.
I'm not sure, but it was okay.
He was incredible.
Richard Pryor.
I've seen Dick Gregory, Mort Saw.
Robert Klein, Child of the 50s, was the greatest comedy album ever before he became angry.
But that's a different story.
The great Pat Cooper, my dear friend, the still-with-us, in Maine talent.
Bob Newhart, the button-down mind of Bob Newhart, one of the most important comedy albums ever.
It started this notion.
They told Bob Newhart, you can't do a comedy album.
Yes, I can.
And this was even before Bill Cosby, and Bill Cosby, irrespective of what he did elsewhere, he was a genius.
People forget, too, how things were.
Andy Griffith broke up.
This was before my time, before Andy, but he was a stand-up comic.
He was doing the phone routine.
Bob Newhart did it.
Who did that?
Georgie Jussel.
Georgie Jussel started that.
Some comedians, I know we're onto comedy, but I never got Milton Berle, but a different generation.
But Carlin changed everything.
George Carlin was the Lenny Bruce of my generation.
George Carlin was it.
And it was transformational.
Throw into that.
Bill Hicks.
The great Bill Hicks.
And they were sort of a part of that kind of an interesting late night sort of thing.
Anyway.
I know I got onto comedy.
Forgive me.
I just wanted to.
It's my video.
I can do what I want.
And I'll cry if I want.
It's a great Leslie Gore set.
Produced, by the way, by Quincy Jones.
But I digress.
But it's over with now.
And now with the writer's strike, the writer's strike.
I wouldn't want to be associated with this.
But anyway, the writer's strike, it's over with.
The money they're wasting on this.
And what you're seeing right now is changing everything.
What you're seeing right now is changing everything.
What you are seeing now is changing everything.
This is not the future.
This is now.
And they don't know this.
Because the people who were hanging on to this art form don't want it to go away.
They don't want it to leave.
But it's over.
And it's done.
And it became...
Not because it was political.
Because there's always been political.
I mean, you know, Will Rogers was political.
But it was political.
It was boring political.
And I've got news for you.
It's a different world since 2016.
It was a different world since Trump.
Everything has changed drastically.
And unless you realize what's happening, you miss the boat.
I'm going to leave it with that.
But remember this.
James Corden?
Oh, they finally got rid of that thing.
Who watched it?
Did you know anybody?
And also, Seth Meyers?
Have you ever watched that show?
Who stays up late?
What are you going to do?
Set the VCR?
Set the what?
The DVR for that?
Who watches this?
I've got this.
I've got the greatest comedy ever.
The greatest everything.
On command.
On YouTube.
On whatever I want.
Whatever platform.
Comedy will never be gone.
Late night will never be gone.
Conversation will never be gone.
But you're looking at a new iteration of it.
And that's over with.
It's done.
It's finished.
And you know what?
It's about time.
Because it's run its course.
It's over.
That model is done.
Next, local news.
Oh, dear God.
New sports and weather?
Weather?
Weather?
I've got nine apps.
All of them wrong for the most part, but nine apps.
And I'm going to wait for six o 'clock for the weather?
What is it?
What is it?
Hugh Downs is going to come on next?
What is this, the 50s?
Not the 1950s, the 50s.
All right, dear friend, thanks so much for watching.
Have a great and glorious day.
Don't ever change.
I mean that sincerely.
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