Legacy

Forbes guy Bill McCuddy says “it just dawned on me that The King’s Speech is Leno and The Social Network is Letterman. Everyone agrees Letterman is smarter, hipper, cooler. But Leno is the bread-and-butter, audience-friendly guy.”

McCuddy wrote this prior to going on CNN International to handicap Oscars and talk Harvey Weinstein‘s coup in getting The King’s Speech a new PG -13 rating, which director Tom Hooper “has always seemed cool to when I asked him about it several times over the last few weeks.” And yet the new rating, especially after Sunday night’s Oscar win, should net Speech another $30 or $40 million.

Side note. “What’s the over/under out there on how soon in the show show we get a Charlie Sheen joke? I say 5:42 seconds.”

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18 thoughts on “Legacy”

  1. But I don’t like Leno. And I liked both “The Social Network” AND “The King’s Speech”. Oh, sorry. Forgot. I have to take sides.

    As for Sheen, forget the jokes. By Sunday I’ll bet dollars to donuts we’ll see him in the “In Memoriam” clip package.

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  2. Come on, seriously. Letterman? Barely anyone under 30 has ever even watched his show. Google “age demographics for late night TV shows” – Leno’s median viewer age is like 59, which is hilarious, right? Geezer central.

    Well, Letterman’s is like 55. He may have been “hip and cool” in 1985. God, baby boomers really need to get over the idea that things from 1985 are hip.

    This is not in any way a slam on Letterman. I like the guy. He’s definitely funnier than Leno, at least in his comic sensibility. But hip? Not for 30 years now.

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  4. So I guess Ellen DeGeneres is The Kids are all right, Carson Daly is Winter’s Bone (i.e. the one nobody has seen), Jimmy Fallon is Toy Story 3 (good call there BobbyLupo), and 127 Hours is…uh…Chelsea Handler?

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  6. Actually, I’d say that comparison is pretty apt. Just as with The Social Network, Letterman is the show middle aged white guys think is “hip young and edgy.”

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  7. $30-40 million? Please. The only people who will go to see the PG-13 version live in small towns, largely in the South, who probably won’t like it anyway.

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