A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

HANDLER WITH CARE: Yesterday's Alessandra Stanley think-piece in the NYT on the white/maleness and overall uniformity of late night talk shows raises the obvious follow-up -- who else is ready? If Chris Rock were prepared to jettison his film career for nightly tv, that'd be awesome, but who else?

Side question: with dime-store mimbo Jimmy Fallon debuting tonight -- excited? intrigued? wait-and-see? or hoping he'll fail? I will, as always, go back to the Tracy Morgan quote:

Laughing and all that dumb s--t he used to do — he wouldn't mess with me because I didn't f---ing play that s--t. That's taking all the attention off of everybody else and putting it on you, like, Oh, look at me, I'm the cute one. I told him not to do that s--t in my sketches, so he never did.

Good luck with that umbrella.