I addressed one single issue, not who wrote what. Neither Leno nor Lederman wrote their own material.

Nor does Stewart. Nor does Colbert.

Like it or don't like it. That's not the point

On Jun 18, 2014, at 4:54 PM, Alan Kitty wrote:

> Perhaps the larger difference is that Twain wrote his own material. =
> Listen to Jimmy Fallon, who never explained his jokes until he took over =
> for the long-chin host. An entire staff of writers - not a Twain in the =
> bunch.
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> 
> On Jun 18, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Denis Donovan wrote:
> 
>> Johnny Carson, who was as unlike Twain as you can get, nonetheless had =
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>> something in common with him that was absolutely not shared by either =
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>> Leno or Lederman. Like Twain, Carson never explained a joke or a =3D
>> routine. Carson let his performance carry the meaning and shape the =3D
>> experience just as Twain let his written or spoken performance shape =
> the =3D
>> experience. Carson may have laughed enough during the process to fill =
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>> several studio audience recordings with every laugh he needed -- but =3D=
> 
>> Twain's enjoyment of his verbal and written performances clearly is =3D
>> palpable in everything Twain ever wrote ... and really comes across in =
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>> the autobiography. Twain's piece on German sentence-building is as =3D
>> hilarious as anything Carson ever did and much of both of their =
> material =3D
>> carries high-powered socio-political-cultural commentary. And, as read =
> =3D
>> by Grover Gardner, had me laughing as hard as I ever laughed at =
> Carson, =3D
>> a laugh tinged with infinitely more respect.
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>> Just a thought.
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>> Denis
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>> On Jun 18, 2014, at 1:42 PM, Scott Holmes wrote:
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>>> I don't know about the rest of you, on Twain-L, but I never thought =3D=
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>> Leno
>>> was particularly humorous.
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