Agreed. The format has been largely unchanged since 1954 when The Tonight Show debuted under host Steve Allen. I noticed the other day that even the stage design is unchanged: the host sits house left, the band sits house right, the guests sit to the host’s right (further left from the audience’s point of view) and the center of the stage is a curtain out of which the host and the guests come.
Also, I don’t know who the Sea Captain haters are out there, but I really like that bit. It reminds me of something Craig Ferguson might do.
