Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee?

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• hesh@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tradition basically

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• TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Studies have shown that turning left during conversation puts you at a subconscious disadvantage. While turning or facing someone to your right adds dominance to what you are- im making this all up.

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  • Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hey can we actually start spreading this around? I have this amazing mental image of some self proclaimed alpha male type trying to get on my right side to talk down to me but I just keep rotating in place so he ends up circling me like a little puppy

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  • vogi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Coworker of mine told me about "The Invariant Right" –the concept of shoppers going always right, so you might be onto something. It could however all be made up as well.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s an American thing right?

  Have a look at Graham Norton, Parkinsons, The Last Leg, or The Jonathan Ross Show. People all over the studio.

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  https://youtu.be/zi8r5dlibW4

  Remember her from years ago. She tried to break up the monotony.

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  • OhmsLawn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That was very disorienting

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Maybe for the same reason they have (or had) microphones on their desk: The shows started out just filming a radio program

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• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Could be influenced by the way in English (and various Western languages), script flows from left to right, which has some influence in our scanning things left to right in general, such as imagery, comics, etc. In such a scenario, the host is like the familiar anchor at the end of the sentence.

  Not saying this is the only or prime reason, but I imagine it plays a part.

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• cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Probably because that’s how The Tonight Show Starting Johnny Carson was set up, and subsequent late night talk shows have generally emulated its style and setup.

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• OhmsLawn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I imagine it’s more natural for right-handed people to greet their guests without their back on the audience. That, and because that’s how Carson did it.

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