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tommycharles:
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Jul 16 2003, 03:16 PM\'] the [rightly] lamented WILTON NORTH REPORT [/quote]
What was that, exactly? All I could gather from reading \"The Late Shift\" was that it kept Arsenio from a regular show on FOX.
ChuckNet:
--- Quote ---Not to mention my favorite incongruous element -- live news updates with Edwin Newman, who was actually on the set with Dave for the first little while.
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Bill Adler reported in his book \"The Letterman Wit\" that the audience would cheer at the news stories they like and boo the ones they didn't...he described it as \"like doing the news in a nightclub\", for which Newman quickly learned to roll w/the punches and play his delivery to the audience.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious \"Chuckie Baby\")
SRIV94:
[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Jul 17 2003, 11:28 AM\'][quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Jul 16 2003, 03:16 PM\'] the [rightly] lamented WILTON NORTH REPORT [/quote]
What was that, exactly? All I could gather from reading \"The Late Shift\" was that it kept Arsenio from a regular show on FOX.[/quote]
It was a poor effort (to say the least) to do a comedic take on the news and died quite quickly (the one witty moment I do recall was some comedienne doing a commentary on the Kelly LeBrock \"Don't hate me because I'm beautiful\" commercial: \"No, Kelly, we hate you because you're exceedingly annoying.\"). When Joan Rivers was forced out of her LATE SHOW, Arsenio Hall was among those who filled in as FOX warmed up WILTON NORTH as the eventual replacement. Under Hall's hostship the ratings got better (not dynamite--after all this is FOX we're talking about) but had FOX not already committed to WN as a replacement they've could've kept him aboard. By the time FOX pulled the plug on WN, Arsenio Hall had already inked the deal with Paramount to start up his show and FOX had to scramble to find someone who could fill the slot (Ross Shafer, soon to host MG90, was among the people who tried. . .and failed).
Ironically enough, Conan O'Brian was one of WN's writers.
Doug
clemon79:
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Jul 17 2003, 09:57 AM\'] (Ross Shafer, soon to host MG90, was among the people who tried. . .and failed).
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One needs to be aware that Ross Shafer wasn't without pedigree for the Late Show gig...he left Almost Live, Seattle's version of SNL, to take that job.
(We would just about kill to get Almost Live back here in first run. I know they used to air it on Comedy Central...it's even funnier when you _live_ here and get all of the regional jokes. :))
Don Howard:
--- Quote ---the [rightly] lamented WILTON NORTH REPORT
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Two game show announcer connections to this show.
Announcer #1 was Michael Hanks, from the God-awful mid 80s edition of Break The Bank.
Announcer #2 was Don Morrow, just a few weeks before he succeeded Jay Stewart on $ale of the Century.
--- Quote ---BTW, if there had been a nighttime HR, would Trebek have done J!? :-)
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I'd like to think Tom Kennedy would've gotten the gig, based on his stellar work on Split Second. Ah, what could've been.
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