Solid Start: Leno benefited from Seinfeld, visual gags

Jay Leno has a lot of movement in support of the prime time ratings in sparkling solid this week, but if you wanted and innovation, which will probably feel disappointed. The 10 clock 'recorded Jay Leno Show "on 12.1 household rating and 19 shares, but Monday night against a good" Monday Night Football game. "It was with performances by Jerry Seinfeld and Kanye West, who had helped only a day caused controversy Taylor Swift Dissing the MTV Video Music Awards. The critics were confused with the first game, says Robert Bianco of USA Today: "There is a new business idea, an attempt at negotiation, alternative programming five nights a week in the slot 10 hours, network can be lost anyway. But creatively, there was a thought that is original, this is what happens when your goal is no less heavy. " It is useful to remember how all this movement arose. Conan O'Brien NBC wanted to keep the barn and the peacock, promised him the "Tonight" show appearance a few years ago. Well, he flew through the years and the deadline approached, so did the NBC site to Leno working hard, giving the face a 10 pm program slot. As you see, was a creative impulses. However, Leno knows how to attract a large audience, mostly jokes hidden in the events of the day, (rarely believe in bad taste, although "in poor taste) is a relative concept in the era of cable . It was "I have a strange thing happened the other day," Leno said Monday. "I put my TiVo to tape" The Biggest Loser "and the game was the Lions." This is one of the best success was rapid. Leno monologues are "uh-huh" funny like "ha ha" funny. A moment of laughter came out on Monday said his joke, visual gag Laura Bush says her husband to enjoy his mountain bike these days, followed by a rapid reduction of motorcyclist lost control over speed in a steep, and even the reverse. Tuesday, when the program won the schedule with a score of 6.6, 11 shares, was obvious visual jokes as the programs of modern interviews (Conan, The Daily Show ") are increasingly integrated, as shown Leno with a still produces laughs Picture Loopy Lady Gaga on MTV Awards and a manipulated video of Joe Biden. Then there was a segment with the courageous filmmaker Michael Moore, who is hated by the right in this country to speak in front of his new movie, that the current way that capitalism is doomed to failure in the operation in the United States. Moore made some good points, even when hewn bunch of conservative protesters deficit, Senator Chris Dodd. I sang a few lines from the Bob Dylan song The Times They Are A-Changin '. " (Jay of the week to go to the other end with a visit to Rush Limbaugh.) A segment later with aging Pretty Boy Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz was more uncomfortable than anything, and "regular Jim Norton's Uninvited Guest" segment was forced, it was a meeting of the comedy with the still-shot routine visual gags on a screen behind him. The program had a nice Wednesday "10-10" segment of the question with Miley Cyrus. So the verdict after a couple of shows is as follows: We have a moderately entertaining afternoon show of the night passing at 10 is an alternative informal watch the news and drama, not enough viewers to get there their legs. And what to do with NBC's Leno? ‰ "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" returned Thursday with his own quartet-obsessed friends, as the patron saint of loveable losers: Danny DeVito. An album preview episodes come in a container that shows the cast head wrapped around the baby's body 'with the label of advertising, "a circle of idiots." This type of post-modern comedy, the kind of waiver of appeal and has enjoyed the humor in uncomfortable roots in "Seinfeld." The manufacturer has classic, Larry David, the hilarious discomfort led to a new level in "Curb Your Enthusiasm." The HBO series begins a new 10-episode season Sunday night at 9 in a season, wants a meeting include "Seinfeld" stars reflect the real life of a twisted way. The new season of the series is partially improvised Bob Einstein, Vivica A. Fox, Richard Lewis, Catherine O'Hara function (usually an excess of the higher role), Meg Ryan and others. See column Entertainment Editor Pat Ferrucci at W2 to preview the season. ‰ "Bored to Death", a new group of colleagues were bent on HBO Sunday night gives us a more narcissistic nebbish (named Jonathan, played by Jason Schwartzman of "Rushmore") as a mute bride New Yorker, because ... well, saying: "My girlfriend broke up with me because I said that smoking marijuana and drinking too much wine too. But you are right: how to love someone when you are in a fog all the time?" Of course. Especially thanks to the film producer Judd Apatow, every comedy these days is rampant drug use, but often contain cocaine, marijuana often (or in the case of "House", Vicodin). But man has a personality of the dog, and Demetrius Jackson Browne-Martin haircut. So against the advice of his employer's crazy / mentor (played by Ted Danson) and his friend decided to slack (Zach Galifianakis), lovers of crime novels, a private investigator for an ad on Craigslist. In a decisive moment in a most pathetic case, leaving a series of funny Woody Allen-like lines: "I've always been fascinated by the Stockholm syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood." Of course this is when smoking marijuana is tattooed with a user of methamphetamine. Together with a friend, an appointment for a colon cleansing, Jonathan has a brochure of spastic colon. "This brochure will contain a lot of good information. You know, we really have to be all vegan.'m Not practicing a vegetarian species. "This is the other thing," says his partner, his girlfriend, who has always been two points, "Read me want to change my diet, so when I'm with her, I eat healthy. If I'm with her, I eat like an American. " Like most modern comedies, "Bored to Death" is the label that the transcript would be old Catholic objectionable in part for everyone. "That is, should not be very good in a media landscape where the wicked stoned and Peter Pan are so popular.