Re: Dog Bites Man, Leno Steals Bit

On Nov 25, 4:44 pm, R H Draney <dadoc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
lpfeffa filted:







On 11/25/2010 2:47 PM, R H Draney wrote:
Bermuda999 filted:

And it's not the first time Leno has stolen material and presented it
as his
own.

For starters, Leno's "Headlines" segment was directly lifted from
Letterman's
"Small Town News."

Howard Stern has long complained about Leno's thievery -- and claims
Leno's
"Jaywalking" bit is based directly on the Stern show's popular
"Homeless Game."

More recently, Stern accused Leno's writers of stealing a segment
called "earn
your plugs," in which Leno forces guests to perform "humiliating"
tasks before
they can promote their latest work -- something Stern did well before
Leno.

Stern himself stole that from a Japanese game show in which contestants must sit
down in a tank of scalding hot water for as long as they can stand it....if, in
three tries, you rack up a total of four seconds of endurance, you get four
seconds to talk about your project and then a wall drops down and cuts you off
from the cameras....

The "Jaywalking" concept goes back to Allen Funt....r

I thought it was Steve Allen.

Steve did it with actors (I assume you're talking about "Man on the Street"),
which was more the basis for the defunct "Who Asked For It"....

Steve's contribution was reading actual letters to the editor in an angry voice,
which bears a slight resemblance to "Small Town News"....r

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Stern has stolen liberally from Chicago's Steve Dahl.
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