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They are at the same time completely controversial and slow paced. What struck me most about these clips were how none of them would make the air today. Instead, they played full interviews of huge stars that just came on to talk to the greatest tv star of all time, the king of late night, Johnny Carson. There were no clips of Tomahawk's thrown at cut outs, no animals defecating on Johnny's head and no comedians making their debuts. These were not the same old-same old clips that have been seen over and over. Approximately 24 interviews were played in their entirety from the Johnny Carson vault. If you missed this summer's Carson on TCM That played on Monday's in July, then you missed a series that truly displayed what is lacking in television in 2013. Watch the interview with Martin Short here. And I am old enough for that to bother me. I think we need to change our Red Room Podcast logo from TV set to an Ipod. They are shown only once and then they are gone because quality has no place on TV. But again, AMC broke up those classic clips into 11 minute pieces. But 30 years later, we all are watching the Classic Carson clips on AMC. This is literally like Johnny Carson not being able to interview George Burns because NBC would say that would be boring. The reason it amazes me is that someone with the heft of Conan has to do this. Now you have to go to the internet for quality and there is crap on TV. When the internet started there was crap on the internet and quality on TV. My fear is that this means there really is no hope for old fashioned TV. Their discussion of comedy was just the kind of talk I love. He did a great job on the interview and I would suggest everyone watch it. Let me be clear, I am not faulting Conan.
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I have thought for years that the best thing David Letterman could do is to drop the monologue and first desk piece and just interview 2 people for the full 60 minutes (which we all know is only 38 minutes of content.) But now I know if Dave did that it would have to be delegated to Face Book. Executives would say, younger, hipper and quicker. Shouldn't Conan be able to ask Martin Short to tell a Frank Sinatra story on his televised program? Of course not. Conan is someone who has a show that he interviews celebrities and he had the thought: “I wish I had a show where I could interviews celebrities?” Have we eaten ourselves yet? This would be like going to see Paul McCartney live and during the show, he says, you need to go online to hear him sing Non-Beatle songs. What has television become when, even though you have a TV show, you still have to go to the internet to do a side project. While watching it I thought, Wow, this guy, Conan, should have a TV show. It was basically like a Charlie Rose interview. I clicked on the video link and an hour long interview loaded in. I saw a picture of Conan and Martin Short with the tag: Serious Jibber Jabber. I think that site does a great job promoting the show and sharing good videos. I like to follow Conan O'Brien on Face Book.