I don’t watch late night TV.  The best I do is Tivo John Stewart and watch him when I get a chance.  I don’t watch because I don’t stay up late, but more than that, I don’t watch because the shows don’t interest me.  One of the big reason why they don’t interest me is because late night is still a bastion of testosterone and men swinging their dicks around.

This week’s insanity just brought it out into the open more.

I really don’t feel bad for any of them.  It was a stupid, yet at the same time bold idea to try Jay out at 10.  I was pissed because I like scripted shows and have missed NBC’s 10pm shows which not too long ago were really good.  Jay’s move has damaged Law & Order SVU which suffered in the 9pm Wednesday slot against Glee and ABC’s great new comedies Modern Family and Cougar Town and CBS’ Criminal Minds.

Please tell me what is it about late night that brings out the insanity in people?  This has been going on for a long time since David Letterman was passed over for The Tonight Show and moved to CBS.

I know it’s all about money.  These shows are easy to produce and make money for the networks.  They also provide a great venue for upteen amount of stars wanting to promote their new shows, films, books etc.  Also,now in the age of You Tube you don’t even need to see the show when it’s on, you can watch you favorite actor’s appearance whenever you want.

But I can’t help but think that because the late night business is still such a male business (with all due respect to Chelsea Handler on E! and Wanda Sykes on Saturday nights) that it is made into much a bigger deal than it should be.  My god it’s been on the front page of papers everywhere! Anyone who watches gender issues in TV knows, late night TV shows have virtually NO female writers as Lynn Harris reminded us just last week in Salon.  I would imagine that David Letterman is not complaining too loudly about NBC’s late might implosion, it puts all his sexual harassment and affairs in the rear view mirror.

I’m sorry but I just can’t get my pitty potty out for any of these guys.

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