“It's a wonderful job for people who have never had
a nervous breakdown but have always wanted one.”—Former talk-show host Dick
Cavett, on being a talk-show host, quoted in John Heilpern, “Out to Lunch with Jimmy Fallon,” Vanity Fair,
January 2013
And you thought that The Larry Sanders Show was fictional? Even one of the more
successful practitioners of the art of the talk show, David Letterman, admitted
to Charlie Rose that he has seen a psychiatrist.
Now, Seth Meyers is going to replace Jimmy Fallon on Late Night, as the latter takes over the throne for Jay Leno on The Tonight Show. Only time will tell if
this turns out to be a success—or if Meyers ends up making the same
big, anxiety-producing mistake that Chevy Chase did with his brief fling with the
gabfest form some years back.
(The image accompanying this post is a publicity
photo from 1973 of Cavett with onetime Tonight
Show host Jack Paar, who had come on to announce that he would be jumping
into the talk-show fray again. That lasted all of a year. We’ll see if Meyers
has better luck.)
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