{"id":140,"date":"2010-01-24T23:27:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T03:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2010-01-26T10:53:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T14:53:31","slug":"the-van-gogh-goghs-late-night-talk-show-fantasy-league-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"The Van Gogh-Goghs’ Late Night Talk Show Fantasy League Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all the upheaval in the late night talk show world, well all the upheaval at NBC’s The Tonight Show<\/em>, the Van Gogh-Goghs decided to hold a draft for their Late Night Talk Show Fantasy League. The draft was an 8-round snake draft and participants had to pick the following:<\/p>\n

1 show host, 1 second banana or band leader\/band or featured player, 2 guests, 1 musical\/comedy performance guest, 2 comedy bits, 1 show host for a follow-up or lead-in program<\/p>\n

Once\u00c2\u00a0 a person or bit is picked they\/it are unavailable for the rest of the draft. The draft order:<\/p>\n

Charles<\/p>\n

T. Mike<\/p>\n

Galen<\/p>\n

Alan<\/p>\n

Jason (Jason was unavailable for the draft, but he was allowed to pick his team from the scraps left over from the others’ choices)<\/p>\n

Round 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles: David Letterman<\/strong><\/p>\n

T. Mike: Johnny Carson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Galen: Arsenio Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alan: Dick Cavett<\/strong><\/p>\n

Predictably the first round went to lock up the host slot for each of the shows. Big surprises in the first round: neither Conan or Leno are picked.<\/p>\n

Round 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alan makes sure he has a strong second banana with his second pick of\u00c2\u00a0Andy Richter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Galen looks to the comedy bits in this round and chooses Triumph the insult comic dog<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

T. Mike gets his follow-up show host locked in with Conan O’Brien<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Charles ends round two by choosing Top Ten Lists <\/strong>to go along with his Letterman pick.
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Round 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles starts round three by rounding out his comedy bit picks with Carnac<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

T. Mike tries an Ed Sullivan move with his third pick and books The Beatles<\/strong> as his musical guest. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Galen finishes his comedy bit picks with Stupid Pet Tricks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Alan rounds out the 3rd round with his first comedy bit pick Marlon Brando<\/strong> (as played by Chris Elliott).<\/p>\n

Round 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alan’s fourth pick is another comedy bit,\u00c2\u00a0Art Fern<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Galen uses the fourth round to to start working on his guests. Guest number 1: Barack Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

T. Mike finally gets around to his comedy bits and picks Viewer Mail<\/strong> as his first bit.<\/p>\n

Charles’s fourth round pick for guest number 1 goes to Jonathan Winters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Round 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles goes to the follow up show host category to lead the 5th round and finally Jay Leno<\/strong> is picked.<\/p>\n

T. Mike finishes up his comedy bit picks by picking Letterman’s suits made of weird stuff<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Galen picks his number 2 guest and takes Robin Williams<\/strong> to bring some humor to his guest chair.<\/p>\n

Alan’s 5th round pick causes a bit of a debate, leading to the Van Gogh-Goghs throwing out his first pick: Throbbing Gristle featuring Miley Cirus. Since this pairing has never happened it couldn’t be picked. So Alan picks De La Soul<\/strong> for his musical guest.<\/p>\n

Round 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alan begins the sixth round with a surprise, but solid, pick for his first guest:\u00c2\u00a0Fidel Castro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Galen finally gets around to his musical guest act and picks Prince<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

T. Mike’s sixth round pick goes to Steve Martin<\/strong> as his first guest.<\/p>\n

Charles goes with musical guest in this round and threatens to throw a party on his show with P-Funk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Round 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a head fake and making T. Mike think he was going with Ed McMahon, Charles goes with Paul Shaffer<\/strong> as his second banana\/band leader.<\/p>\n

T. Mike, feeling threatened, snags Ed McMahon<\/strong> to fill the seat next to his Carson.<\/p>\n

After a little confusion over whether Charles’s Shaffer pick also takes The World’s Most Dangerous Band off the table, Galen goes with Doc Severinson.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alan finished the next-to-last round with his second guest pick of Bill Murray. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Round 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alan’s final pick is follow-up host and he goes political with presidential offspring\u00c2\u00a0Ron Reagan<\/strong> (yes, he had a talk show).<\/p>\n

Galen also is left with his follow-up host as his final pick and\u00c2\u00a0 also goes political with Bill Maher<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

T. Mike only has his second guest left to pick and goes political as well with John F. Kennedy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Charles rounds out his team and finishes off the draft with his second guest and gets two guests for the price of one with Penn and Teller.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To recap the Late Night Talk Show Fantasy League shows picked in the draft:<\/p>\n

Charles: David Letterman with Paul Shaffer, Top Ten Lists, Carnac, Jonathan Winters, Penn and Teller, P-Funk and Jay Leno as the follow-up host.<\/p>\n

T. Mike: Johnny Carson with Ed McMahon, Viewer Mail, Suits Made of Weird Stuff, Steve Martin, JFK, The Beatles and Conan as the follow-up host.<\/p>\n

Galen: Arsenio Hall with Doc Severinson, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Stupid Pet Tricks, Barack Obama, Robin Williams, Prince and Bill Maher as the follow-up host.<\/p>\n

Alan: Dick Cavett with Andy Richter, Chris Elliott’s Marlon Brando, Art Fern, Fidel Castro, Bill Murray, De La Soul and Ron Reagan as the follow-up host.<\/p>\n

Jason: Zach Galifianakis with Chris Elliott, Crushing things with an 80-ton hydraulic press, The Fugitive Guy, Andy Kaufman, Fred Phelps, GG Allin, and Jimmy Kimmel as the follow-up host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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