{"id":10528,"date":"2014-02-10T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10528"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:40:28","slug":"the-end-of-the-late-night-monologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-end-of-the-late-night-monologue\/","title":{"rendered":"The End Of The Late Night Monologue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/021014_1637_TheEndOfThe1.jpg\" width=\"641\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jay Leno is known for opening every &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; with a monologue that consist of a series of one liners about current news events. Upon taking over Jimmy Fallon should abandon the practice writes Esther Breger:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When the monologue first started it was a fun and useful way to contextualize the news and make it humourous.<\/li>\n<li>However in the age of Facebook and Twitter people read funny one liners about events as they&#8217;re happening. By the time the Tonight Show starts jokes about news events seem old.<\/li>\n<li>Instead what gets people fired up are viral videos and bits that spread like wildfire across video sharing sites and social news feeds.<\/li>\n<li>Jay Leno was trained in stand-up comedy. Jimmy Fallon is trained in improv comedy and he should stamp his signature on the show by playing to his strengths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See examples of the differences in style sand read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/116494\/jay-leno-retiring-late-nights-opening-monologue-should-too\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/116494\/jay-leno-retiring-late-nights-opening-monologue-should-too\">New Republic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Leno is known for opening every &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; with a monologue that consist of a series of one liners about current news events. Upon taking over Jimmy Fallon should abandon the practice writes Esther Breger: When the monologue first started it was a fun and useful way to contextualize the news and make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/021014_1637_TheEndOfThe1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10531,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528\/revisions\/10531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}