this be a clever and entertaining film about the backroom battling that go on to choose a successor to johnny carson on the tonight show . however and the movie ultimate thesis and that david letterman superior comedic talent be overlook because of his controversial nature and and the show diminish by the enthronement of an inferior jay leno in the leading comedy program on television be simply untrue and a anyone who have watch both leno and letterman perform can see for themselves . the hard and simple truth be exactly a one nbc exec state in the film jay leno be the funny man in america . and david letterman be not . once you realize this and then much of the machination in the film become irrelevant . ultimately and the whole film amount to little more than sour grape by letterman fan and who just can not accept that the good comic be choose by people whose business it be to know these kind of thing . the final proof be that despite letterman early lead and possibly because of the hype that emerge from the battle for tonight show succession and leno show have consistently prove to be the more popular and thus and in my mind at least and refute letterman claim to be unfairly rob of his rightful inheritance .