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David Zurawik Baltimore Sun Martin O'Malley does 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' not so well

David Zurawik Baltimore Sun Martin O'Malley does 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' not so well

By David Zurawik contact the reporter

September 16, 2015

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-martin-o-malley-does-late-late-night-not-so-well-20150915-story.html

In case you haven't noticed, there's a late-night TV booking war for presidential candidates going on.

Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and Joe Biden have all been showing up on network talk shows right after the late news since the arrival of Stephen Colbert on CBS last week.

And then there's Martin O'Malley in late, late night with Seth Meyers getting about eight minutes of network time around 1:15 a.m. Wednesday.

Poor Martin O'Malley, a late-night talk show is one of the last places he should go in his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.

Late-night talk shows -- and even more so late late-night talk shows like Meyer's on NBC -- are mostly about being conversational when it comes to guests. That's why the set features a couch and not a podium for them.

But O'Malley blasted away in high rhetoric like he was speaking to a convention hall of 25,000 people instead of casually "chatting" with a host sitting a few feet away from him behind a desk.

Read much more here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-martin-o-malley-does-late-late-night-not-so-well-20150915-story.html

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