Johnny Carson: overrated!

Tucker on Carson

New York mag contributing editor and critic, Ken Tucker, has a blog (recently established, it appears) and says that while he’s “sorry Carson has died,” he “stand[s] by what [he] wrote in [his] new book,” Kissing Bill O’Reilly, Roasting Miss Piggy: 100 Things To Love and Hate About Television:

Nearly all light-night hosts pay unctuous obiesance to King Carson. Sorry, boys: Johnny—while obviously superior to Leno in being better at feigning interest and laughter at guests’ babble—may have been more smoothly skilled than Jay, but he’s also dreadfully overrated.

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