Late Night Comedy Meets the Emmys
Yesterday's NYT featured an interesting story about the changing face of late-night comedy and the race for the coveted Emmy award for the best variety, music, or comedy series. As noted in the article, Jimmy Fallon is the only network host/program nominated for the Emmy. The other nominations are for cable programs -- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , The Colbert Report , Conan's new show on TBS, and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher . The article focuses on the importance of the nomination for Fallon and the reality that both Letterman and Leno are missing from the list of nominees. In addition, the piece stresses the success of both Stewart and Colbert and their increasing rise in the ratings: The arrows continue to point up for him [Stewart] and Mr. Colbert; their ratings were both up over the past year, and with an election looming — the richest of subjects for the most topical of hosts — the prospects are good for even more increases. To say nothing of pr...