lol. Conan's so damn cool.Have a great day and, for the record, I am truly sorry about my hair; it's always been that way.
Yours,
Conan
Someone should put up a picture of Leno have the word "ASS" in red. That ASS skit was hilarious on Conan's show.
So, according to TMZ, http://www.tmz.com/2010/01/12/conan-...-work-for-nbc/ Conan is leaving, and Leno will get a whole hour and the "tonight show" name back.
Can't wait to see what Conan will do on Fox (if that's where he goes). Awesome. NBC
Awesome. NBC indeed. If Leno takes the Tonight Show back, him. I'm mostly happy that Conan's leaving, but what Leno should do is go to ABC and leave NBC alone with Fallon and Daly.So, according to TMZ, http://www.tmz.com/2010/01/12/conan-...-work-for-nbc/ Conan is leaving, and Leno will get a whole hour and the "tonight show" name back.
Wouldn't this be awesome:
CBS- Letterman, The British Dude from Drew Carey
ABC- Leno, Kimmel
FOX- Conan
NBC- Fallon, Daly
lol: Letterman just dismantles NBC and Leno over this: 16 years comes full circle.
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice
leno and letterman are both dumbasses who are lucky they ever got in the limelight... they suck as comedians and hosts! 'em both!
I was watching Sesame Street when Letterman was still cool... I don't dislike him now, but I guess he used to be the mother effing . The way people wax all nostalgic-like about Letterman makes me sad I wasn't lucid during the 80's.
Holy , Conan's on fire tonight.
"I made a pea !"
"Welcome to NBC. Where our new slogan is, 'No longer just screwing up prime-time.'"
"When I was a little boy, I remember watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and thinking 'Someday, I'm gonna host that show for seven months'."
"And trust me, when NBC says something – you can take that to the bank!"
"2 tickets to Jay Leno stand-up at a casino"
Comparing NBC to a pimp with late night ho's - with Leno as the bottom ho.
"Stop saying NBC.... We're trying to have a pleasant evening."
Oh God, the man is going down, guns blazing. And it will be glorious.
Kimmel just came out in a Leno costume and started the Leno high-fives to the audience on his show. Damn.
E: And he's telling Leno-style horrible jokes, while the band is acting just like Eubanks and company.
He's not pulling a single punch. I need to remember to DVR every second of what's left of his Tonight Show run.Oh God, the man is going down, guns blazing. And it will be glorious.
Conan in ' it' mode is TV as good as it gets.
Ironically NBC completely destroying The Tonight Show has made it, however briefly, as good as it's been in a decade and a half.
poor carson daly
yeah this is funny stuff
chevy chase as conan
The solution here seems very simple to me:
Fire Jay Leno. Let Conan keep the Tonight Show. He isn't beating Letterman in the ratings war, but you have to give the man time to build his dynasty. Patton Oswalt articulated this on a radio show the other day when he pointed out that Conan started off horribly on Late Night, but ended up creating this massively popular program that had a die-hard following.
It doesn't surprise me, though, that NBC values ratings over creativity. It is all about the money, anyway. And let's come to a consensus: Conan is funnier and far more creative than Jay Leno.
Leno is like the Transformers 2 of late night TV. He's the Brendan Fraser of late night TV.
And another thing.
People expected Conan to match Letterman's ratings, but NBC has made that impossible by putting Leno in front of him yet again. When your late night programming begins 90 minutes earlier, it's only natural for people to start tuning out a little earlier, as well. You put Johnny Carson on at 10pm, and Leno sure as wouldn't have been as successful as he was.
Leno and NBC. Long live Coco!
+1
Another thing: while Conan's overall ratings are behind Letterman's, he's already winning the 18-39 demo which is the sweet spot as far as advertisers are concerned. As you say in your followup, throw Leno totally out and more people will have a look at Conan's Tonight.
I haven't been in that demo for nearly a decade, but still have no idea what people see in Leno. His monologue delivery is stiff as a board, his jokes are stale, and his comedy bits are tired.
I said something like that last night while watching the show. For all the ways that they have been shooting themselves in the foot in this situation it's been a huge boon for the show. They have a situation that every media outlet is talking about, have given Conan a great set up to make fun of, and most of all have given him nothing to lose. The last few shows I've seen are the closest he's come to the sort of energy that made Late Night work so damn well since making the jump to the Tonight Show.
If it weren't for the fact that NBC has proven themselves to be such programming re s for the last few years I'd say this was a huge, genius marketing campaign to get Conan's ratings up.
Agreed, Conan going balls out, guns blazing was like a welcome home party. The best he's been in awhile. He was being too censored on the Tonight Show, trying to be more bland and please more people and now he thinks he's out - he's fantastic. He was absolutely ing hilarious last night.
I like Leno all right, but I love Conan. The Leno gamble didn't work, the network was cheap and took a gamble and the end result of that gamble should be letting go of Leno. It's sucks for them, since they love him soooo much, but come on. Step up and be men of your word, assholes.
Ah, well. Once NBC lets him go (it could take awhile) he will be totally awesome on Fox. And better yet? If they air it after Fox News (which I don't watch) I'll tune in a lot more regularly. Half the time I'm getting ready for bed when the Tonight Show is on.
It's hilarious watching an NBC channel show host just bash NBC. haha
These hosts always sarcastically make fun of their network, but Conan is ripping them a new a$$hole in a cool funny Conan way.
Not a lot new here, but a nice summing up.
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work...&asset=&ccode=
NBC may control its airwaves, but apparently it does not control Conan O’Brien.
Less than a week after NBC told him it intended to move his “Tonight Show” to a new time, 12:05 a.m., Mr. O’Brien said he would not agree to what he considered a demotion for the ins ution of “The Tonight Show” — and his own career — by going along with the network’s plan to push him back a half-hour to make room for his most recent predecessor, Jay Leno.
Mr. O’Brien’s statement Tuesday said that he so respected the ins ution of “The Tonight Show” that he could not participate in what “I honestly believe is its destruction.”
Pointedly, Mr. O’Brien did not resign or indicate he would not show up for work. But an executive at the network who declined to be identified because of continuing negotiations said that Mr. O’Brien would leave once a financial settlement was reached.
By Hollywood standards, Mr. O’Brien’s letter was an extraordinary gesture — releasing a statement to make public his anger at the company paying him tens of millions of dollars before he even reached a settlement.
The closest episode in history may be when Jack Paar walked off the set of “The Tonight Show” in a huff over corporate censorship.
Mr. Paar returned to the show within a month in 1960, but few are predicting a reconciliation between Mr. O’Brien and the network.
NBC executives continued Tuesday to work toward a financial settlement, though some indicated increasing impatience with Mr. O’Brien’s effort to blame the network for the three-car pile-up in late night.
The host, who saw his brief run as host of “Tonight” cut short when NBC decided to restore Mr. Leno to the 11:35 p.m. time period, has been increasingly upset about how he believes he was treated by NBC’s management.
A representative of the host said Tuesday that Mr. O’Brien finally reached the point on Monday where he “sat up all night drafting the statement.”
The statement also took NBC to task for not giving the show more time or supplying stronger lead-in audiences, which could be interpreted as a shot at Mr. Leno’s poor performance at 10 p.m. (Though Mr. O’Brien mentioned Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon in his statement, he never referred to Mr. Leno by name, only by the le of his show.)
“After only seven months,” Mr. O’Brien wrote, “with my ‘Tonight Show’ in its infancy, NBC has decided to react to their terrible difficulties in prime time by making a change in their long-established late-night schedule.”
He hosted the show Tuesday night, even as negotiations, which one participant described as intense, continued throughout the day. But Mr. O’Brien did not hold back on criticizing NBC during his performance.
“Welcome to NBC — where our new slogan is, ‘No longer just screwing up prime time,’ ” he said.
He was also self-effacing in his jokes. “ o, my name is Conan O’Brien, and I may soon be available for children’s parties.”
Though some rumors appeared saying NBC might be lining up guest hosts, NBC quietly dismissed that notion. Indeed, such a move could have legal implications because it might be interpreted as NBC firing Mr. O’Brien, which could lead to a bigger settlement for him.
Jeff Gaspin, the chairman of NBC Entertainment, who broached the idea last week of shifting the late-night lineup, said he was motivated by trying to retain both stars, not to drive Mr. O’Brien away. But other NBC executives indicated privately that they would be satisfied with a new late-night lineup with Mr. Leno back at “The Tonight Show” at 11:35 and Mr. Fallon settling in at the “Late Night” show at 12:35.
Those executives will apparently get their wish. But questions will linger about whether Mr. Leno will return automatically to his former position of dominance at 11:35 against Mr. Letterman’s show at CBS.
“You have to wonder if Jay is damaged goods after all this,” said one former longtime network programmer who did not want to be identified criticizing the network. “But if they give him ‘The Tonight Show’ back, maybe it ends up all right after a while. But it just seems so unfair to Conan.”
The release of Mr. O’Brien’s statement complicated an already messy legal and programming situation. NBC executives have quietly complained for at least a month that Mr. O’Brien himself was responsible for declining ratings on the show because he had not broadened his appeal from his days hosting NBC’s 12:35 a.m. show, “Late Night.”
NBC has also made it clear that it does not believe it breached Mr. O’Brien’s contract in any way because it offered him the chance to continue on “Tonight.” NBC executives said that Mr. O’Brien’s contract did not include any language that guaranteed the show had to begin at 11:35 p.m.
The counterargument from Mr. O’Brien’s representatives has been that no such language was necessary in this case because “The Tonight Show” has followed the late local news in cities across America for 60 years.
Plenty of money is involved. Mr. O’Brien is owed about two and a half years on a contract that pays him $10 million to $20 million a year.
Mr. O’Brien expressed hope in his statement that the issue could be resolved so “that my staff, crew, and I can do a show we can be proud of, for a company that values our work.” But though the Fox network has made its potential interest in Mr. O’Brien public in comments this week, Mr. O’Brien said, “I currently have no other offer and honestly have no idea what happens next.”
There would be questions, too, about Mr. O’Brien’s potential at another network after the disappointment at “Tonight.”
Mr. O’Brien’s future could also be complicated by how his contract is settled. Even if NBC settles with him, it could enforce a clause that keeps him off television for a year or more.
^^^ nice signature im so glad i came into this thread. I heard the game on the radio and for some reason i didnt see that on ESPN fastbreak.
man i hope that last nights conan tonight show is on nbc to watch online.
Conan presumably has a covenant not to compete written into his contract by NBC that may keep him from signing immediately anywhere.
There are also reports that Leno may leave NBC, as well.
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