Now, I’ve got nothing against white guys, heck, I’m one myself, but seeing the ad for the late night line up with Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Falon, and Carson Daly, I said to myself, dang, that’s a lotta white guys.
The news desks are a little unbalanced as well. Let’s take a look at a totally biased list I put together to prove my point…
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Jay Leno, formerly the Tonight Show host, moving to a prime time slot shortly. |
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Conan O’Brian, previously the Late Night show host is moving into Leno’s spot on the Tonight Show. |
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Jimmy Fallon took over Conan’s old spot on the Late Night. |
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Carson Daly is more interesting to me as the inspiration for Earl’s karma fascination in “My Name is Earl” than his time on MTV or his current gig on Last Call. |
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Going back a bit… remember Johnny Carson… |
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… and his side-kick, Ed McMahon |
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Carson and McMahon took over the Tonight Show From Jack Parr. |
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And speaking of Ed McMahon, anyone remember Conan’s original sidekick, Andy Richter? He’s back as Ed McMahon 2.0 when Conan takes over the Tonight Show. |
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The face of news may have a better tan than the late night talk show hosts, but lots of white dudes there too.
Brian Williams: Nightly News guy who took over from… |
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Tom Brokaw, the previous Nightly News guy |
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David Brinkley was the previous previous white dude along with… |
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John Chancellor, the co-previous-previous white nightly news dude |
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Chet Huntly was kinda the first Nightly News guy, depending on how you look at it, but regardless of how far you wanna go back here, all white dudes… |
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Undoubtedly the most diverse… cast(?) is the Today Show, but even they have their Matt Lauer |
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Then there’s the Meet the Press guy, David Gregory, who took over for… |
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…Tim Russert, the previous Meet the Press host. It still puzzles me that anyone was surprised when the very obviously unfit guy had health issues and died. |
This concludes my incomplete list of randomly observed white dudes, past and present, that make up the face of NBC.
Ok, not to compare Conan O’Brien with [J/j]esus, but I can’t help but have Tom Wait’s Chocolate Jesus stuck in my head ever since running across the article yesterday, so, I’m sharing. Hope you enjoy it.
