Commercial I saw for Jay Leno's new show left me thinking it must be all about freepers.

[Berry Cool]

He was doing his thing where he interviews ordinary people on the street and asks them questions, and when I heard the responses of the two on the ad, all I could think was "They must be Freepers."

He asked the first one to complete this famous phrase: "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers..."
Her response: "...who art in Heaven."

For the second one, he pointed to an American flag flapping in the breeze on a pole and asked her "How many stars on that flag?"
Her response: "It's flapping too much--I can't count them."

*sigh*...Like I said: Freepers. They could only be freepers.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. That's been one of his schticks

for years now.

Going places outside, talking to passersby, asking them questions that could be answered by relatively bright fifth-graders, and showing how abysmally stupid our citizenry is.

It's funny, at first.

And then it's horrifying.................................................

[Arugula Latte]

3. Jay Leno's show depressed the crap out of me.

I could never watch it. Not funny at all, and chock full of stupid people saying stupid things. Ugh.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. Long ago,

before he took over the Tonight show, he was a funny stand-up comedian.

Clever, endearing, and funny without being mean. Whenever he showed up - which wasn't that often - he was fun to watch.

Apparently a little bit of Leno goes very, very far for me. I tried watching him after Carson, but, you know, no one can follow Carson. No one.

And Conan O'Brien is an embarrassment.........................

[Arugula Latte]

6. I used to like him in the '80s.

He was a good substitute for Johnny, back in the day.

When he got his own show ... bleah. After about the 4,239th Clinton's penis joke, it got old. Seemed like he treated Bushco w/ kid gloves, as well.

Have to say, though, I do enjoy Conan and think he's very talented. It took me awhile to warm up to him, but now I tune in when I can.

[demosincebirth]

9. I watched him every night, Now I watch Letterman...couldn't stand Conan.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

12. Fortunately,

I have Comedy Central at that hour, so I'm well-distracted.

But, Letterman would be my choice, for sure, if I didn't have CC.

I never understand why anyone found Conan O'Brien funny. He's just nothing............................

[demosincebirth]

26. I know a lot of younger people, maybe 40 and under, that always liked him

I don't really care for some of his antics.

[d_b]

4. boom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhqdyBE26cs

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. Keep in mind -

their votes count the same as ours.

I'm now so thoroughly depressed.................

[d_b]

11. this is even worse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddtc4FypXzk

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. Once again,

I'm glad I'm old.

There is no hope........................

[Occulus]

14. It's even more depressing when you realize how intentional that level of undereducation is.

:cry:

[Sebastian Doyle]

16. That point should be obvious enough in the second clip

..at the end, when Grandpa knows so much more than the rest of his family :( (About basic US History stuff, no less)

[Berry Cool]

21. I know, but all I can conclude when I see these abysmally uneducated, stupid people is

"They have got to be Freepers. What do you wanna bet?"

[d_b]

2. Jaywalking

[ohheckyeah]

7. One of his shows he was

asking people questions who had justgraduated from college. He asked one woman how many moons the earth has and she said two. She had her diploma in her hand when she answered.

[Journeyman]

10. Well, too, you could consider that only stupid comments get people on the show. . .

so reasonably intelligent people fake it in hopes of exposure and the possibility of winning money or prizes.

Could be -- though such a thought certainly detracts from the audience's sense of superiority.

[Berry Cool]

22. It would give me hope to think that was the only reason they said this stuff.

What I fear is that it's not.

I mean, it's like, you ask people which weighs more, a ton of lead or a ton of feathers...and they say "The lead, of course..."

[SoCalDem]

15. It's just a lame excuse to do away with the one-hour dramas that they used to run at 10PM

Now they can run reality-schlock-shit from 8-9..repeat it or show Law & Order parts 1 thru 6, from 9-10, and the network will be on autopilot..no actors/writers, set designers/directors/etc required..

Jay Leno was born too late. he's a Borscht Belt Vaudeville style comic..not funny..

[zbdent]

17. "It's flapping too much -- I can't count them."

but Obama makes a subtle joke, playing on how tiring the campaign is ... and people act like he really believed that there were 57 states ...

[TexasProgresive]

18. Steve Allen or Jack Paar began the "Man in the Street"

years ago when they hosted the Tonight Show. I will grant you that freepers are one ignorant bunch but there is a huge poop of ignorant Americans for them to draw on.i.e. Freepers are ignorant, and many Americans are ignorant, but not all ignorant Americans are freepers.

In 1976 the bicentennial of our country Philadelphia TV did these kind of interviews. They would show the person a copy of the Bill of Rights and ask them what they thought of it. Most thought it was communistic.

What is sad is that many Americans take pride in being ignorant.

[Berry Cool]

23. I remember those shows.

And I think Steve was actually depressed to see how stupid some people were. He hated that the general American population was so ignorant.

[TexasProgresive]

25. But tell me Berry

What did I mean by a huge poop of ignorant Americans? Cause I don't know! ROFLOL

[peekaloo]

19. scheduled guest for 9/24

Rush Limbaugh

:eyes:

[bullwinkle428]

20. When the NBC suits revealed this new concept of a show for Leno several months back,

they made a HUGE point that this was NOT going to be "The Tonight Show" simply set an hour and a half earlier. It was supposed to a kind of topical talk-fest hitting on the "big events of the day" kind of like Bill Maher's old "Politically Incorrect" on ABC.

All of the promos now seem to indicate that this is going to be EXACTLY like the "Tonight Show" - I'm sure Conan O'Brien is thrilled about all of this, but it's not like he can speak out in protest in any way...

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

24. it's all scripted.

i know there are people who don't know shit from apple jelly, but this is tv and it's all

written. they get people who will do anything to be on tv.