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I detect a groundswell for Jeff Zucker as The Tonight Show‘s guest host. Or is it just that no one else wants to cross picket lines and sit in for strike sympathizer Leno? So forget whom you want to host, tell DHD whom you think would host and why.
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Jay Leno rocks! Sure, his riding motorcycles and collecting classic cars is something my dad would do to remain hip, but standing up for unions? Can’t get cooler than that! Rock on, Jay, rock on!
Well, if anyone knows how to take things from first place to last place, it’s Jeff Zucker.
I want you to host, Nikki! You’re writing is always witty and you’ve been so great during this mess!!
NBC would go bankrupt from the powder budget needed to deshine Zucker’s chrome dome for HD.
Get Ellen to fill in. She’s already crossed the line, and her studio is in walking distance to the Tonight show.
What rhymes with Zucker…?
Hire Ellen. Don’t know if she is available but her attitude is willing.
Ellen, with Iggy as co-host.
Jay has always been one class act, and nobody who would cross a picket line can hold a candle to him. I can only imagine JULIE CHEN bolting past the picket lines for a new career opp….
…well “wannabees” are out, they’ll ruin their careers… gotta go with the “has-beens”. Maybe just rotate in some of the cast from The Surreal Life
Monday: Ron Jeremy.
Tuesday: Janice Dickenson.
Wednesday: Flavor Flav.
Thursday: Howard K. Stern & Larry Birkhead.
Friday: Nick Counter. (no need to pay him)
ZUCKER: A funny thing happened as I drove through the picket line today…
I think Arsenio Hall is available.
Perhaps Ellen will do it.
Ben Silverman will host THE TONIGHT SHOW because…for reasons that didn’t show up on his GE drug-test…he is actually up at that hour…and he can have his “buddy” Ryan Seacrest on as a guest. Yes indeed…Harvard and Tufts make idiots, too.
I trust everyone realizes that the AMPTP is using the superb staffs of every show and film impacted by their reluctance to negotiate– these peoples’ livelihoods – as a way to bring writers off the picket line and back to their jobs with zero compensation for internet reuse and/or original content. They want writers to take the blame for their refusal to negotiate a fair and reasonable contract. Can the AMPTP stoop any lower than this? Of course they can! There is not a writer on the picket line that wants any one of their coworkers to sacrifice their paychecks for their cause. The writers want to negotiate these issues even as I am writing this with the AMPTP and get back to work. The AMPTP is creating this misery, not the writers.
Men of integrity like Jay Leno put the AMPTP to shame. I commend Jay Leno for having the courage – the decency – to stand by his writers (for he is a writer first) and to also try to find a way to keep his unrivaled segment producers, musicians and administrative staff working during this difficult time. I’d say he was a hero and an example to the AMPTP and everyone in America – he is a man who deserves our respect, and his viewers’ and the WGA’s allegiance because he is trying to do the right thing all around.
This is not a time for guessing games. It is a time for writers, and Nikki Finke I mean you too, and the entertainment community to take this matter seriously (no jokes) and demand an end to this hostage crisis for writers, staffs, and actors/actresses. Negotiate AMPTP! And then we can all start laughing with Jay Leno on THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO!
Semper Fi
George Lopez.
I’d like to see if this guy, who spends all his time moaning about how his people don’t have opportunity, get such an opportunity. I want to see if he’d justify crossing the line as an ethic advancement.
Mr. Zucker may have something going there. He should turn the Tonight Show into a REALITY show and have unknowns off the street host the show. There is a lot of talent out there who are not part of the old boys club.
And Johnny Carson is rolling over in his grave at the thought of how his show, his legacy is being handled.
Duh! It’s pretty obvious to me. One of the great comedic minds of our time, and already an NBC property:
Carson Daley.
No one can replace a class act like Leno. There is a reason the guy is #1 and it goes WAY beyond the fact that he’s the funniest guy on television. Sure, it’d be easy for him to continue collecting his paycheck but that fact that he stands by his team shows real character.
Jeff Zucker???!!!! The reason Jay resonates in such a big way is because people can relate to him. He IS an every day, average guy. Kudos to Jay for sticking up for his team. That kind of conviction is exactly WHY he is so loved.
Welcome to the Internet Age! How long can Hollywood preach Communism and practice Shark-Bait Capitalism before hypocracy becomes a revolution? We as writers should form a new union, “Financial Anarchy Local 620″, is now in session. Writers must Produce and Direct their own material and everyone become their own Studio for individual profits to be realized.
“Writer/Producer/Director/StudioHead” is now one Title for anyone in LA ready to reap the profits of Entertainment – rejoice and empowerment for the Intelligencia!
Nikki Finke – why are you asking this questions? Jay Leno is a stand up guy who has made the decision to support his staff (how many of you can say that about your boss). Why are you exacerbating an already difficult situation? Jay doesn’t need YOU second guessing his choice. What he needs, and his writers need, are our support.
“He should turn the Tonight Show into a REALITY show and have unknowns off the street host the show.”
I have to admit that is something that would fit Zucker’s thought process. If you need a new method to lower ratings, Zucker is a frickin’ genius.
I think one network choice for a guest host for “The Tonight Show” is obvious – Michael Eisner. I think he’s been aiming for it since November 1.
Right now, he’s doing a one-hour “Conversations with Michael Eisner” show on CNBC that airs ONCE A MONTH. That’s far too infrequent for someone of his ego. Even Jack Welch didn’t create a website to promote himself.
Eisner has been spewing corporate rhetoric about the writer’s strike, so “The Tonight Show” would give him a platform to continue to do so.
To me, “who will be the hosts” isn’t the question. Which SAG and AFTRA people are going to be appearing on this thing to promote themselves?
Other than Ellen DeGeneres, I mean.
I WANT NIKKI FINKE TO HOST THE TONIGHT SHOW
yes, all caps
that way we can listen to your strike coverage on tv
perfect, nikki, perfect