NY Times: Seth Meyers to Host Late Night

[TheBigA]

In LA, most kid block hosts were gone prior to the 70s -

Same with NYC.

 

[Brother]

Consolidation has killed localism outside of news or sports, youtube might be the new farm system. There are no more horror flick or afternoon kids block hosts.

Nope...YouTube is what killed localism. There is no local anymore. The kid block hosts, for the most part, went away in the 70s.

Exactly. Localism died long ago. I grew up in the 1980s and we had no local kid block hosts. The indie stations had their kids clubs, but they ran nothing but Fox and syndicated cartoons. Honestly and sadly, Gen-Xers like me viewed the old-time kid show hosts as sort of dorky relics from our parents' childhoods. They'd complain about us watching He-Man, Transformers, or even The Smurfs while waxing nostalgic about creepy-looking clowns introducing old black-and-white cartoons. Snotty-Nosed Typical 1980s Kid wanted none of that, we just wanted nonstop animated action.

By the way, just to be on-topic: I have no problem with the choice of Seth Meyers as Late Night host. I felt Jimmy Fallon has really improved his screen presence hosting Late Night, and Meyers will likely do the same.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Consolidation has killed localism outside of news or sports, youtube might be the new farm system. There are no more horror flick or afternoon kids block hosts.

Nope...YouTube is what killed localism. There is no local anymore. The kid block hosts, for the most part, went away in the 70s.

Exactly. Localism died long ago. I grew up in the 1980s and we had no local kid block hosts. The indie stations had their kids clubs, but they ran nothing but Fox and syndicated cartoons. Honestly and sadly, Gen-Xers like me viewed the old-time kid show hosts as sort of dorky relics from our parents' childhoods. They'd complain about us watching He-Man, Transformers, or even The Smurfs while waxing nostalgic about creepy-looking clowns introducing old black-and-white cartoons. Snotty-Nosed Typical 1980s Kid wanted none of that, we just wanted nonstop animated action.

By the way, just to be on-topic: I have no problem with the choice of Seth Meyers as Late Night host. I felt Jimmy Fallon has really improved his screen presence hosting Late Night, and Meyers will likely do the same.

There's another topic about this, but since it was mentioned, back in the 90s I watched Billy Bobb and "Bullwinkle" or "King Leonardo". That second one was not around during my childhood, but the music was similoar to "Underdog" and "Tennessee Tuxedo". "Bullwinkle" was but I was too young to get the jokes.

Many years earlier we had Old Rebel. I don't even remember what his show included. I moved to another market which had Joey the Clown.

 

[dtuba]

Almost Live in Seattle could have been used as part of a farm system

I'm amazed that not a single Almost Live alum ever got a gig on SNL. The biggest any of them got afterwards was freaking Bill Nye the Science Guy.

A late response to an old post in the thread (sorry) , but Joel McHale (The Soup and NBC' s Community) is an Almost Live alum.