Direckshun's Three Candidates For Replacing David Letterman
 

I was talking with a couple folks today on Fallon being a smart pick to replace Leno.

Letterman's replacement has to be (a.) being popular enough to compete with Fallon, and (b.) being a legitimately popular host.

Here are my three ideas, plus explanations. Use this thread to tell me they suck, and offer your own ideas.

1. Ellen Degeneres: Not exactly plays to the ChiefsPlanet demographics, but there's no more popular talk show host in America outside of Leno/Letterman not named Oprah. She is legitimately funny, albeit not uproaringly funny for dudes in my demographic, but she has engineered some awesome comedic moments on her show.

2. Howard Stern: There is absolutely no better interviewer on any medium. His interviews are awesome, awesome, awesome. If he is interviewing you remotely care about, it's appointment listening. Stern's show would honestly just get rid of the monologue and just have a one-hour interview along the lines of what he does now. It would be far more rewarding than any 10-minute segment you could do on Fallon.

3. Stephen Colbert: Best personality on television. Super smart, super hilarious and there is really no conversation he isn't informed enough to have. He's really hilarious, and could commit to the comedy skits that the position would mandate.

I vote for Direckshun's whore of a mother.

:)

I love Craig Ferguson, but he's perfect for his time slot.

Artie Lang.

Conan O'Brien

1. Yes
2 and 3. No.

YOU SON OF A BITCH

DIRECKSHUN'S WHORE OF A MOTHER IS A SAINT

YOU HEAR ME

A SAINT

That.

Or Lewis Black lol

ROFL

Worst interviews, but best monologues.

I'll bet Jefferey Dahmer's mother wasn't so bad either.

LMAO

Steve Harvey? I'd love to see that.

Or Jim Gaffigan

Black: So.. ****, I don't know. Just say something about your movie and I'll react like I'm impressed.

Jennifer Garner: Uh... So, Bradley Cooper plays my husband?

Black: OH **** ME THAT'S MARVELOUS.

THAT'S JUST WHAT I WANT TO SEE IN A GODDAMN MOVIE.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR TAKING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO STAND IN FRONT OF A CAMERA PRETENDING TO LIKE BRADLEY COOPER FOR 20 MINUTES.

WHO GIVES A SHIT.

SERIOUSLY.

...We'll be right back.

How about peteZ28??? Non stop topics.

LMAO

Why not just cut out the middle man and ask Matt Drudge.

Arsenio Hall.

What ever happened to Arsenio Hall?

Who gives a crap?

Direckshun's whore of a mother.

Kevin pollack

ON TONIGHT'S SHOW!

-Tonight's top 10 list: 10 reasons why all referees suck

-You make the call!

-Stupid ref tricks

-Who is worse: Joe West or Osama Bin Laden?

-Tonight's guests: Ed Hochuli, Joey Crawford, Frank Drebin

-Musical guest: Enrico Palazzo

Strike two.

You know what happens on strike three?

Something like this:

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Charles ramsey

Hate him or love him. The guys is talented in any position he is put in...

Justin Timberlake.

Scott Pioli should replace him.

Scott Pioli is good at everything.

Those are some ****in awful choices.

That's a great nominee.

Conan O Brian. He'd trash Fallon in the ratings while getting back at his old network. Ellen won't leave daytime tv.

clint eastwood

Frank Caliendo!

That is spot on .

Seth Meyer
Dennis Miller

No way, dude. He has to be able to keep going on with Fallon.

Pencil meet ear drum.

Jerry Springer

I won't lie. I laughed my ass off when he hosted the espy's .

Man Stern was awesome in days with Billy West, Jackie ... Etc now he just boring as shit

1 and 2 are out of the question.

I think Conan or Kimmel will be the pick

Would love to see Conan get back at his old network

Those three are probably the worst 3 names you could ever come up with.

Sean Hannity

Patrice O'Neal. Except he's dead.

Ellen Degeneres is an atrocious interviewer and her daily monologues are horrible.

Your lewis black was dead on, and made me spit coffee while reading...

Chuck Norris.

Any old grumpy man that can read cue cards could replace Letterman adequately.

Too bad John Goodman is dead. He would have made a great host.


R.I.P. JG


Sad

How about no.


He shaved his beard and mustache he has no Godly powers now.

He can still start threads?

I sort of think Colbert could work. He seems to be a genuinely nice, funny, and intelligent guy out of character. I don't like Ellen and don't think Howard Stern has the energy for a show anymore.

Howard Stern wouldn't do the show he gets to say **** and have hot chicks get naked in front of him during taping of his radio shows. Why would he even bother doing the late show?

Howard Stern wouldn't be able to be "Howard Stern"....so that's a no.

Stephen Colbert would be an excellent choice...as would John Stewart.

Wonder if CBS would be dumb enough to hire Conan O'Brien to literally run up against Leno.

Personally I wish Fallon would never be on TV again...hate that little bastard and all of the crap he spewed on SNL. Ruined every scene he was in because he'd start laughing in the middle of the skit. <--- dumb.

Another one I'd like to see but won't happen due to 2 things is Adam Corolla. Like Stern, he wouldn't be able to be "Adam Corolla" and I dunno if he'd want to run up against his old pal Kimmel on ABC. But he's a good personality.

Letterman is quitting?

He would surely have more control on that than judging whatever stupid talent show he does.

Patrick Stewart.

A dead Johnny Carson would be better than Fallon.

Michael Scott

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Between 2 Ferns w/ Zach Galafanakis (dont care if I butchered that last name)

Jim Norton.

Michael Cera.

You know you'd get the same performance every night. Hard to beat consistency.

Why not get that Democratic Senator that was killed in a plane crash and re-elected anyways? Was his name Carnahan? If you can pull that off then you handle a talk show.

Tonight's guests will be speaking from beyond the grave and they include:

1) Johnny Unitas
2) Ronald Reagan
3) Mary Magdalin

Remember to vote and vote often even if you are dead.

Leno is leaving...so if CBS went with Conan, it would be Conan vs. Fallon....that would be interesting.

Tim Tebow can take over for Pat Roberts on the 700 club.

Agreed. The man is already comedy gold.

Bo Burnham. This kid is super talented. Musically gifted and very witty. Check out Zach Stone is gonna be famous.

He reminds me of Fallon w/his musical talent. Younger crowd would dig him.

I'd take Direckshun's whore of a mother out for a nice seafood dinner and NEVER call her again!