I'm assuming that you all in some way you know grew up watching you know the
great late night hosts of your and learning from the masters and Pat Sajak
Alan Thicke Johnson does that in any way influenced you know how you do the work
that you do do you think you want to create a show that sort of you know part
of this longstanding TV tradition or do you want to make a show that's somehow
it is different as possible from which preceded it I think we are trying to do
something that like we think a late night show should be you know and it's
whatever you know we learned watching you know that you're stuck the TV so
yeah we don't feel like we're part of this grand tradition but it also doing
stuff that actually you know it's funny now let me know that all this stuff is
going to like i you know we're just really trying to convey the people that
the host to i mean clearly we have a very very talented person that those two
are show and he is a much bigger influence on I think the host of the
show them what you're thinking like there's every format issues I think that
are gonna stay similar to what we have been there for before like and we first
started late night there was always like we wanted to keep little monologue and
gets the death toll itself but then because jimmy is Jamie there are so many
different places you go there would be different from a Letterman or Leno and I
think that's kind of where our show is gone because of that like you see live
music stuff coolly musician there's a lot of that we do as well when it became
clear that Jimmy was gonna take over the Tonight Show be the 1130 guy I did that
in any way
necessitate kind of you know thinking either thinking about things any
differently or realizing ok suddenly now you know we are you know where you know
we are this marquee chauffeur and BC we gotta we gotta represent the brand we've
got a better behave yourselves a bit more anything now
trying to do in that 11:30 show down there was a good thing for us is not to
think of it as a different teachers writers like to write recall indeed his
name is Mike to send their joy was always a significant factor what we want
to focus on and I think that carried through we also have the benefit of not
having a break when late night and started think there was like five days
so we don't have time to sit there and think about what are we gonna do
different or should we do something different
describing it as a benefit at the time when they say it is a benefit though I
think we all like that we never got a chance to like down shift into being off
their which is a really it is a huge kept us from I think over thinking a
little bit because we basically just went from across the hallway or studios
from one to the other thing was 10 feet away from each other so just come back
to work
slightly fancier digs is is there such a thing as a typical day at the office of
you people have arrived at an appointed time in our meetings yeah definitely I
mean I think the pressure to get the train station every day means that we
have to have sort of a very regimented schedule that repeats you know Groundhog
Day kind of every day that allows us I think to be created because we sort of
always know where to go and what's next and how to fill the bucket so to speak
force structure is great i mean the structure of what we do if I don't think
we have been meetings we have or what we do we do to get anything done
crazy
would put on one show a year I mean is is there are there certain meetings
where you're saying okay now it's time to think of this type of a sketch of
this type of segments or I mean there definitely are I mean the basic schedule
over show is there's a there's a meeting in the morning as writers meeting there
is then a full production meeting for all staff then there's a creative
meeting which is about you know if a group of us and Jamie and then there is
a monologue meeting which is miles in the writers in this segment producer
meeting and then there is a pre-show meeting and then there's a show so yeah
there's a meeting today and they're smaller meetings that he's not there
then there's a bunch of course the week but that's a long day and I mean can can
idea just kind of percolate from anywhere somebody you know how they come
from and where they come they come from the writers obviously are required to
come up with ideas and they're on the hook but Jimmy comes up with ideas on
time that are just like you're just kinda like there's no way that's going
to come through television you know you see him on a seesaw
what we do is build a giant visa to James Taylor's anesthesiologist
something he said in a creative meeting Wednesday like I don't think so I know
yeah there you have those things that you guys have seen it but it just wasn't
great but that just came out of his mouth and was just like ok like I think
my eyes just lit up like this but then to see it happen in his prison when he's
really excited about it it really makes the whole thing so it's something that
he's like you know things really funny it's going to be it's gonna be great
just the craziest ideas just kind of just fully formed out of his brain and
they're just like weird strange beautiful a weird way Valerius the lake
tight pants Lionel Richie
like to James Taylor's on the seaside like I don't know how someone bringing
works like that but does he literally kind of a dream sometimes I get that
Cecilia today which I saw that he wanted to do so silly with Paul Simon and the
cast of style which is just a weird that you never put together I think he had a
dream about it and let it was fantastic
like it to happen overnight and sleep is coming up your principally responsible
for the for the monologue meeting as well can you talk a little bit about you
know i mean in some reason the show you know it's tremendously innovative in all
these ways and yet you know the monologue is still such an important
part of how we think about a late night show what's why is it still sort of a
crucial component of these I think it's comforting and I think that also just
naturally comes right after the news you just watch the you know what's going on
in the world makes sense to sort of immediately decide to make some comments
about what people are thinking about it's a way of settling in to the show a
little bit but also I love that you know jimmy is also very open to ideas where
we can in certain things into the monologue that our traditional we have a
lot of slavery to kind of walk in and just like start telling jokes that all
rights the roots are unbelievable asset I guess some really funny comedic actors
happen to be in the roads and we love to use those guys my favorite walk-on sorry
this was there was a guest who mentioned I saw this strengthens yeah he mentioned
you mentioned the song is how great the roots are also downloads it under his
iPad and then plays it through the whole bands IFB while the interview is going
on
on they've learned the fingerings just listening to the ifp and then played it
at the end of the interview going out like Springsteen just went crazy he did
but he just he downloaded it they learned it silently and played it
perfectly for the first time in all amazing musicians my boy I don't even
have a follow-up to sink in
maybe it's an off and on thing but occasionally I'll be online and I'll be
looking at Twitter you'll be like Paris coping he's just like that is that is
that sort of a regular tradition areas that I blame government it is my fault I
think I brought those things like he the nightmare was great sorry
you know just playing around with new things and trying new things and that
would go forth and they came out and want to try it and yeah I mean it's it's
like it's a lot of pressure on things like is pretty cool of any earlier this
room actually watch those dreams but like you get really tired look at what
the what the process is like and if you are somebody that is interested it's
unprecedented I think a lot of great opportunity to some bad joke