Comments on: Is Jay Leno a Corporate Shill?

By: Leno Effect: DVR Numbers Down Product Placement Up « After the Transition

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By: ODDS & ENDS — TV Tattle

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By: Grover

Grover — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:29:54 +0000

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By: Is David Letterman a Corporate Shill? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits

Is David Letterman a Corporate Shill? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:00:45 +0000

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By: Brian O'Leary

Brian O'Leary — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:11:42 +0000

In creating the 10 p.m. show for Jay Leno, NBC made a big deal of its plans to use live promotions to help advertisers sidestep the practice of Tivo’d commercials. It is more prevalent in the new show, by design.

By: S.A.

S.A. — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:59:17 +0000

I don’t think you are quite getting the point. These shows _are_ “glorified infomercial” in that they are there to promote various things. The two biggest “products” in that episode you left out were the FOX TV show “House” and Lionsgate film “More Than a Game.”

Very rarely is there a guest on one of these talkshows that is not there to “plug” some product they are selling.

By: harold

harold — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:34:19 +0000

A lot of comics consider themselves artists. Sure, they entertain, but you say that like it’s a bad thing. Isaac Bashevis Singer said, of books, that their function, first and foremost, is to entertain.

By: JF Quackenbush

JF Quackenbush — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:31:23 +0000

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By: Peter L. Winkler

Peter L. Winkler — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:30:30 +0000

This is all very naive. The stars of TV shows often appeared in the commercials for their sponsors’ products that were aired with the program. I once saw an ad with Bewitched stars Dick York and Elizabeth Montgomery, in character, sitting at their breakfast table.

Radio shows and, in the early days of TV, TV shows were directed by advertising account executives from the sponsor’s ad agencies. Product placements are inserted in TV shows and movies routinely.

Anyway, since when did Leno become an artist? He’s a performer. TV and movies are inherently commercial media, produced by corporations to serve corporate interests.

Leno complies or he’s out of a job.

By: harold

harold — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:41:45 +0000

Yeah, he’s been at it for a long while. Remember Bill Hicks’ bit on Jay Leno being a corporate shill. That was in ’92. BTW, “corporate shill,” were Hicks’ exact words. “You do a commercial, you’re off the artistic fuckin’ role call.” I believe it first started with Jay when he did a Doritos commercial in the early 90s.

By: Mike Czobit

Mike Czobit — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:24:25 +0000

That was exhausting and nauseating. The answer is Yes.