Article suggests Stewart for new bandleader on Jay Leno show

[Stephen]

Surely Andy is a better fit for talk-show bandleader than Stewart. But he might still have nightmares from the ill-fated Dennis Miller Show.

[TOWOS]

No. Conan. Fergie. Anybody.
But Leno. NO.
Plz Stew.

[Kim]

I remember Andy on Dennis Miller! How long did it last? A week?! I always liked Dennis Miller though.

I saw a Conan show in the studio once - it was really cool, and man, that Max Weinberg band was on FIRE! Much better in person than on TV. I like Conan and I think he got screwed, so I've vowed to NEVER watch Leno again. Leno should have been man enough to turn down NBC when they asked him back, and tell them to give Conan some time to earn an audience. Of course, if Stewart got the gig I would have to eat my words on that one.

I don't think Stewart would do it. Why would he want a day job?

I remember when Branford Marsalis was Leno's band leader. Anyone remember the interview Sting did with Leno, with Marily Henner? OMG, that was the FUNNIEST interview ever. I am convinced Jay and Branford totally set Sting up. He was looking off camera, like WTF?! LOL!

[plutonic]

I don't know how I missed this thread.
I, for one, would love it if Stewart were on TV every night.
I would even suffer through FFWing through the show just to watch the intros and outros.

As skilled with jazz as he is with rock?

Yeah, when I think of SC, I think "that's a guy who loooooooooooves jazz."

Just like how I loooooooove Travis Barker.

Stewart doesn't hate Jazz.

I agree.

He's also disappointed that so little of it has changed since the bop era.

Really? He said that? I didn't see any of that Krupa stuff, or hear it. Is that where he said that?
I just figured he liked to pick on Jazz because it gets all the poser musos' (myself included) collective knickers in a knot.

I dare you to say that the man can't swing. He swings better than many Jazz drummers.

That said, I don't think he'd enjoy being the butt of Chin Man's jokes. Eubanks should have shoved a guitar up Leno's backside years ago.

Agreed. He swings. And he knows how to drop the Bass drum old school.


And I also agree about being the butt of Leno's jokes.
Stewart, despite earning his laurels with seven children, as he likes to remind us, is not a 'straight man'.

He's a jester himself:
He should just get his own show.

It would be funnier, the interviews would be cooler, and 10x hipper than Leno.
It'd be like Spectacle, except Stewart is way more 'in your face'.
And it wouldn't have to just be music.
Stewart can talk public policy and whatever else you want, too.

In this silly dream, he conducts the interviews from behind the kit.
When his guests get uppity or unbelievable, he appears thus:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RwMqt39Crp0/R ... tewart.jpg

He can be the first late night show host to give himself his own, er, rim shots.

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niiiiiiiiiiiice

[Mrs. Gradenko]

Leno sucks, I miss O'Brien.

[DirtyMartini]

I admit that I would love to see SC pop up at one of the live Conan Prohibited shows (greatest tour idea ever).