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Tough Crowd Checks In…

Tough Crowdregular Laurie Kilmartin sent us the following message:

Hey Brian,

Thanks for the Tough Crowd mention, however, there is one misconception I’d like to correct (CNN got it wrong too). Our GOAL from the start was to keep 1/2 the Daily Show audience. Anything else was considered bonus. Now it’s being spun as if TC only kept 1/2 of the Daily Show’s lead-in, when that was our directive from the start. The re-runs they throw in when we’re off the air consistently fare worse.

Thanks,

Laurie Kilmartin

Thanks for setting us straight. You saved us from thinking too much like a television executive. (God help us! We’re taking a cable exec’s word for it when he offers excuses for cancelling a show!) We hope that you (and our esteemed readers) will forgive us! (Traci said, just before Brian hit the SEND button, “Do you really think you oughta say that about hemorrhaging viewers?” I said… Well, I said something… can’t recall what. She said, “There’s no way that an 11:30 PM show should be expected to retain anything more than 50 per cent of an 11 PM show.” Traci knows best in this case!) In my defense, I had spent a lot of time looking up the correct spelling of the word, “hemorrhage.” I was damned if I wasn’t going to use it!