Great job NBC, kick out the man with all of the charm, humor, and genuine happiness that Jay Leno will never be able to replicate. I'll be watching TBS, see ya later.
Edward Cortez But he really didn't, his show was actually doing very poor and it caused a trickle effect in which viewers wouldn't stay to watch Conan do his thing. So in the end Jay's ratings were so low that it actually caused other shows ratings to dip. Soooo....
dancepiglover No, people didn't turn on him. And if they did, then they were misinformed. I can't for the life of me, understand how anyone thinks this was Jay's fault. Conan's rating dropped the tonight show to second for the first time ever. I managed a company, and I left to go to another job, and the guy that replaced me wasn't getting it done, so they called me back and asked me if I was interested. So I negotiated and went back. So would I be a bad guy because I got the job offered to me again and took it? No. Conan didn't not get it done. Period. That's why he was given money to go away. He had no business slamming NBC, when they were especially generous in what they gave him. Yeah, he was crying all the way to the bank. We could only wish to be given that kind of money. Unbelievable. And he is NOT that good which NBC realized unfortunately a little too late. But the ratings spoke volumes.
Killed his legacy? Is that a joke? The guy is still incredibly popular considering he has one of the most popular channels on RUclips, which mind you he started doing just for fun before it became huge. What in gods name is Conan going to do after he retires? Exactly. Jay is legend. Conan is not. Sorry about it.
So true. Fallon and Kimmel are trying their best to make shows friendly to Internet clips and trying to bring in the youtube crowd. Meanwhile team coco has been doing that for years and Conan and Andy get standing ovations at Comic-con.
Nx Doyle Seriously? On TBS LOL?: Should not even be on TV! Not funny at all. Leno is still and always will be the king of late night. I wish he was still on. Conans stupid hip tugs and spinning when he is introduced is still the stupidest most embarrassing thing that ANY late night host has done. Cannot stand him. For god sake's, NBC paid him $45 million to go the F away.
megamovieman101 I can kind of understand why Fallon is doing better than Conan. The Tonight Show has always been about middle-of-the-road, inoffensive humor, low on irony. I wouldn't say Conan's humor is cutting-edge, but it's more so than Fallon's. The show just wasn't a good fit for Conan. Also, Fallon was something new. Conan basically had his old show, which he had been doing for decades, moved up by an hour. That's not exciting enough to pull in a new audience.
I remember being happy for Conan when he went to the Tonight Show, then beyond disappointed when NBC kicked him out. Now NBC is doing everything in their power to make sure Jimmy Fallon having the best circus and game show ever, just so that their viewers and ratings don't drop into "Conan numbers" again. It's suspicious that Fallon's videos are always on the front page on RUclips. It's like NBC buys the spot
Elias Jokela Leno WAS hilarious. Many comedians back in the day claimed he was the best of his time. The problem is he panders to the audience too much. Where he used to be witty and smart, he now caters to the dumbest one in the crowd.
Conan was far less known and did not have the reputation of the big boys but still held his own and was much funnier than leno. He had great ratings that only suffered because of jay.
that's why NBC won't let him go until he does something to drop his ratings. As long as he's got all those Gen Y kids, he'll be at the helm of the show.
NBC should've gotten rid of dead weight like Jay years and years ago. Never was a funny talk show host. Conan on the other hand understood the younger audience, meaning the future of tv. His new show has been fun even though I haven't watched it regularily since they don't show it around here, but the app and the episodes in the net are awesome. Clueless Gamer for example is one of the funniest bits in talk show business right now.
He didn't promise anything, Conan made a deal with NBC that forced Leno out. Conan got the tonight show and tanked, they brought Jay back and was instantly number one again, Jay didn't do anything, it was all the network.
yeah right, they say it was a quarter of that so technincally he still got 30 million or so. The guy could retire and live a thousand year. I think he deserve to be rich but I don't think he can complain
Tonight Show has plummeted in the ratings now under Fallon. Averaging 1.3 million a night, compared to 2.6 million for Stephen Colbert's Late Show. Remember the time when Fallon was on top?
Jeff Zucker is the CEO of NBC but can't put together a basic English sentence? He says "I feel terribly" but it should be "I feel terrible". Feeling terribly means you have a poor sense of touch.
I hate the way these videos always pit Leno "against" Conan like it was Leno's idea. Nobody blames the higher ups for making the decision. Nobody blames the PUBLIC for giving the tonight show bad ratings when O'Brien hosted it (same goes for Jay Leno Show). I'd have been happier of Leno walked, too, but I don't blame him per-se as he wasn't the instigator. Blame the people who made the decision.
NBC made a giant mistake ripping conan off like tht. Be mad at nbc not a leno. Leno is an employee. It is not his show. He doesnt own the show. He merely runs the show. He has no control over it, he is not a shareholder for nbc or the tonight show. He is an employee (and a highly paid one at tht)
Actually it was NBC that pushed Jay off "The Tonight Show" because they were so sure Jay couldn't hold onto his number 1 position in late night, and they were confident Conan would be an instant sucess as soon as he took over. They were absolutely WRONG on both counts.
You don't seem to understand what went on here. They didn't fire Conan. He left on his own. When Conan got the tonight show, they also gave Leno the lead in, and they BOTH tanked in the ratings. NBC affiliates complained because Leno's show was causing a drop in their late new ratings, so NBC was going to move both shows back a half hour. Conan would have kept the job had he agreed to do the Tonight Show with a 12:05am start time. He had the option to leave as well, and that's what he did.
i still havnt seen a single episode of jay lenos bullshit. why? cause i fall asleep half way through. conan is actually entertaining. LONG LIVE CONAN!!
If I was in charge back then, I would have moved Jay Leno to Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at 10.00pm, these days of the schedule are usually the weakest on a network, with Friday traditionally a dumping ground for failed sitcoms, with Saturdays and Sundays given over to re-runs of dramas, sport and political shows. So having Jay at 10.00pm on these three nights would have provided an alternative, and would have been a good lead in for SNL on Saturday nights.
@italkart24racer I'm 20 years old and I agree with you. As I commented in another video about the exact same negativity over Leno supposedly stealing the show from Conan, I simply prefer Leno's humor over Conan's humor. It's just my personal opinion. I find him funnier than the other late night talk show hosts. I find it highly offensive when people tell me that I'm stupid or boring or an idiot because I like watching Leno's monologue and comedic segments over those of the other hosts.
Given Leno had it first, NBC execs were the ones who screwed Conan more than Leno did. They could have fired Leno, but instead wanted to appease both by giving him another show, then later put him back at the Tonight Show. They should have let him decide when like they let Johnny, screwing both like this, then choosing Leno over Conan made people hate Leno when it's not 100% warranted...
Why would anybody do this? Because Conan agreed to turn down another network's offer when NBC said they would remove Jay to give Conan "The Tonight Show". And when NBC decided they were making a mistake and wanted Jay to stay, Conan felt like he was suddenly second best again. But it was the network and Conan's ambition that really made this thing happen. Not Jay.
Please explain why Jay Leno got it back. Surely they fire Jay and keep Conan at 11.35pm? Shouldn't they have paid Jay the $45 million to fuck off? I know Conan did well and has a hell of a lot more freedom on TBS than he would ever have had on NBC, but as a British person viewing this, NBC should have paid off Jay.
I'm sorry but I've always thought Conan was funnier than Leno, Leno is for the older/mature crowd, which is cool but his humor is just dry & lame. For Leno to steal Conan's show, was so low its just beyond words I just want to smack him. I'm from NY and Conan, his family, and staffers where here and relocated to California. For NBC to put all of them through this just to give it back to Leno was F-cking LOW!!! What goes around, comes around (as told by Justin Timberlake).:D !
Kind of. NBC wanted Conan to take over the Tonight Show, told Leno it wanted him to leave, he agreed. NBC didn't want to let him go, gave him a prime time show, it bombed, so they brought him back to the Tonight Show and gave Conan the boot. It wasn't like Leno was quitting all on this own, it was what NBC wanted from the beginning, it just all went horribly wrong, as most things with NBC do.
Eight year: Matt Laur, Charlie Rose--out amidst disgrace. Conan on TBS, Jay Leno out. For me it was always Letterman and now Colbert. No late night talk show host approaches the genius of Colbert.
As much as I agree with pretty much everyone in the comment section. Jay Leno will always be the face of late night talk shows for me. However, I'm only 25 so I maybe out of my element here.
NBC did bring this on themselves had if they let Jay Leno retire when he did, instead of having him host a prime time show, and looked at how it did. Had they let Jay Leno retire and not give him the primetime show, who knows how Conan O'Brein could have done in the job that he had been promised. I would imagine eventually Jimmy Fallon would have moved on to host the Tonight Show but for sure not 4 years after 2010.
If scorcese give leonardo di caprio a role in a movie is leo supposed to be happy or supposed to say "oh gee tom cruise was supposed to play this part im gonna give it to him." And while you are at it ask YOURSELVES this question: if your boss chose to promote you instead of your friend are you supposed to celebrate or say hey i shud give it to my friend!! Bottomline: it is not conan's or leno's call. It is NBC's call and THEY were the ones responsible for not making this smooth transition.
Leno destroyed his legacy with this mess...he should have simply stepped away and gracefully exited. Moving to 10pm was dumb and only served to harm the Tonight Show franchise.
NBC would have had to pay him a fortune to step away in 2009, his contract was not done, and so they were the ones who told him to go to 10pm to save them a fortune.
Given that TECHNICALLY leno didnt STEAL the job back what he did was wrong, he DIDNT LEAVE AT ALL!!! Which gave NBC the option of kicking conan ANYTIME bcoz leno made sure he was ALWAYS AVAILABLE. Period. His rich he doesnt need the money. And if its bcoz he loves doing it he already got to do it for 17years all of the past host had to give it up at one point even if they wanted to do it until they die bcoz they have run their course and they know that it was never for them to keep. Regardless
Anyone who likes to judge should probably first read Bill Carter's book "The War For Late Night" which is an unbiased account of what actually happened during the Tonight Show Debacle. As for referring to "our people" as ignorant "r"-words, I doubt even Conan would thank you for that brand of...support.
I miss so much Conan's late show. He was funnier and riskier at a later time, his writers were better and New York guests are more interesting. No more Walker Texas Ranger lever...Cactus that plays "We didn't start the Fire".....The Tonight Show died when Johnny Carson left.
I agree. It shows Lenos true colors. I liked him on the Tonight show...but he never truly gave Conan a fair shot. I fear if Conan goes to Fox...his show will get cancelled. People just dont watch Fox at night!
Conan is the future, Leno is the past. Why replacing the past with the future, then replacing the future with the past? I think the guys responsible for that also canceled Star Trek and Futurama.
Leno came back for almost no time at all before he gave the show to the other guy who does the job Conan used to do= What does Leno have against Conan? The plot thickens.
The comments section...wow. I knew the Conan fanbase tend to hold a grudge but still...they act like Leno did to Conan what Max Shreck did to Selina Kyle in Batman Returns.
Great job NBC, kick out the man with all of the charm, humor, and genuine happiness that Jay Leno will never be able to replicate. I'll be watching TBS, see ya later.
Jay had the better ratings, end of story.
Edward Cortez But he really didn't, his show was actually doing very poor and it caused a trickle effect in which viewers wouldn't stay to watch Conan do his thing. So in the end Jay's ratings were so low that it actually caused other shows ratings to dip. Soooo....
James hatchworth
He means the rating on the Tonight show not the Jay leno show
Amen
Did anybody catch the shape shifters?
Even people who really like Jay turned on him after this.
He killed his legacy with this.
dancepiglover
No, people didn't turn on him. And if they did, then they were misinformed. I can't for the life of me, understand how anyone thinks this was Jay's fault. Conan's rating dropped the tonight show to second for the first time ever. I managed a company, and I left to go to another job, and the guy that replaced me wasn't getting it done, so they called me back and asked me if I was interested. So I negotiated and went back. So would I be a bad guy because I got the job offered to me again and took it? No. Conan didn't not get it done. Period. That's why he was given money to go away. He had no business slamming NBC, when they were especially generous in what they gave him. Yeah, he was crying all the way to the bank. We could only wish to be given that kind of money. Unbelievable.
And he is NOT that good which NBC realized unfortunately a little too late. But the ratings spoke volumes.
After like a year at most, Leno's ratings were back up to what they were before he left the first time.
xpensfanatic2009, Conan didn't get a year.
Killed his legacy? Is that a joke? The guy is still incredibly popular considering he has one of the most popular channels on RUclips, which mind you he started doing just for fun before it became huge. What in gods name is Conan going to do after he retires? Exactly. Jay is legend. Conan is not. Sorry about it.
All this crap aside, Conan owns the crown now.
So true. Fallon and Kimmel are trying their best to make shows friendly to Internet clips and trying to bring in the youtube crowd. Meanwhile team coco has been doing that for years and Conan and Andy get standing ovations at Comic-con.
Alex Gregg You know why? 'Cause he gave 'em the "ol' Razzmatazz!"
i actually like jimmy kimmel, but fallon i never found as funny
Nx Doyle
Seriously? On TBS LOL?: Should not even be on TV! Not funny at all. Leno is still and always will be the king of late night. I wish he was still on. Conans stupid hip tugs and spinning when he is introduced is still the stupidest most embarrassing thing that ANY late night host has done. Cannot stand him. For god sake's, NBC paid him $45 million to go the F away.
how does one praise leno and hate conan, atleast hate both.
I for one believe Conan was too real for NBC.. he is the type of guy that takes a lot of chances and does it well..
Leno should've never had the show. It should've been Carson, letterman, Conan. Now were stuck with jimmy fallon :/
***** I don't know about Nate, but I think I'd do an alright job... you don't have to be a professional to be funny.
love conan but jimmy fallon is great also
If Conan had brought in the same ratings as Fallon, he'd still be hosting the Tonight Show.
Dan Sanger I don't even know why Fallon gets the ratings he does... I mean, he doesn't really seem to have a personality.
megamovieman101 I can kind of understand why Fallon is doing better than Conan. The Tonight Show has always been about middle-of-the-road, inoffensive humor, low on irony. I wouldn't say Conan's humor is cutting-edge, but it's more so than Fallon's. The show just wasn't a good fit for Conan. Also, Fallon was something new. Conan basically had his old show, which he had been doing for decades, moved up by an hour. That's not exciting enough to pull in a new audience.
It's kinda messed up that he doesn't have the right to even replicate anything that he created himself while on NBC
I remember being happy for Conan when he went to the Tonight Show, then beyond disappointed when NBC kicked him out. Now NBC is doing everything in their power to make sure Jimmy Fallon having the best circus and game show ever, just so that their viewers and ratings don't drop into "Conan numbers" again. It's suspicious that Fallon's videos are always on the front page on RUclips. It's like NBC buys the spot
taking a risk and trying something new.... *re-hires the same old showrunner*
that term is replaced by Apples 'Courage'.
Leno never was and NEVER WILL BE as funny as Conan.
Leno isn't even funny to begin with.
Take out both uses of "as" and "Conan".
Conan idiot
I agree, Conan is hilarious!
Elias Jokela Leno WAS hilarious. Many comedians back in the day claimed he was the best of his time. The problem is he panders to the audience too much. Where he used to be witty and smart, he now caters to the dumbest one in the crowd.
Conan was far less known and did not have the reputation of the big boys but still held his own and was much funnier than leno. He had great ratings that only suffered because of jay.
Leno like a boxer. whipped up like Letterman. then Conan
NBC blew it with both Letterman and Conan, but the Tonight Show is stuck with Fallon. Enjoy that train wreck NBC
rozzie101 The train wreck at #1 in the ratings?
+CorsetGrace Still terrible humor
Apollo 284
Depends on the person's opinion but I'm still pretty sure NBC will be happy with #1 ratings and the ad revenue from that.
that's why NBC won't let him go until he does something to drop his ratings. As long as he's got all those Gen Y kids, he'll be at the helm of the show.
@@jackson5116 Jimmy Fallon is boring
NBC should've gotten rid of dead weight like Jay years and years ago. Never was a funny talk show host. Conan on the other hand understood the younger audience, meaning the future of tv. His new show has been fun even though I haven't watched it regularily since they don't show it around here, but the app and the episodes in the net are awesome. Clueless Gamer for example is one of the funniest bits in talk show business right now.
Conan idiot
mar dileo mar dileo idiot
He was number 1 for 20 years and went out on top, you're an idiot.
Went out too late, should've outed himself when he first promised instead of being a backstabber.
He didn't promise anything, Conan made a deal with NBC that forced Leno out. Conan got the tonight show and tanked, they brought Jay back and was instantly number one again, Jay didn't do anything, it was all the network.
I dunno about you guys but nobody can make me laugh as easily as Conan can hahaha
I like Conan a lot
Leno was a bad replacement for Conan,sorry Jay,but Conan is much more entertaining.
+deadmike naffer Leno was a bad replacement for Carson. Letterman should have had that job.
Essentially, Leno is awful.
deadmike naf
don't apologize to the crimson chin.
Carson had no replacement that would have been perfect, Letterman sucks compared to Johnny.
$45 million to walk away from the network. Amazing.
spaceye
It is amazing bud, I agree. With what they gave him, he should have been grateful, not being an a-hole and blaming everybody but himself!
Most of the money went to his staff because they all moved out there to California with their families
yeah right, they say it was a quarter of that so technincally he still got 30 million or so. The guy could retire and live a thousand year. I think he deserve to be rich but I don't think he can complain
WOW! Zucker's complexion REALLY clears up at 2:20 .
NBC is still feeling the repercussions of their actions. Conan is still going strong and making us laugh.
Tonight Show has plummeted in the ratings now under Fallon. Averaging 1.3 million a night, compared to 2.6 million for Stephen Colbert's Late Show. Remember the time when Fallon was on top?
The best karma was when Jeff Zucker himself got the boot shortly after.
I just want that Conan gets a new show as fast as possible
Jeff Zucker is the CEO of NBC but can't put together a basic English sentence? He says "I feel terribly" but it should be "I feel terrible". Feeling terribly means you have a poor sense of touch.
I hate the way these videos always pit Leno "against" Conan like it was Leno's idea. Nobody blames the higher ups for making the decision. Nobody blames the PUBLIC for giving the tonight show bad ratings when O'Brien hosted it (same goes for Jay Leno Show). I'd have been happier of Leno walked, too, but I don't blame him per-se as he wasn't the instigator. Blame the people who made the decision.
Leno announce his retirement a few years before his departure the problem was.. he never left
NBC made a giant mistake ripping conan off like tht. Be mad at nbc not a leno. Leno is an employee. It is not his show. He doesnt own the show. He merely runs the show. He has no control over it, he is not a shareholder for nbc or the tonight show. He is an employee (and a highly paid one at tht)
"Maybe I shouldn't have lost Conan." Well then maybe you shouldn't have screwed him out of a job then, huh?
Actually it was NBC that pushed Jay off "The Tonight Show" because they were so sure Jay couldn't hold onto his number 1 position in late night, and they were confident Conan would be an instant sucess as soon as he took over. They were absolutely WRONG on both counts.
I like conan more than leno
It's 2018, and I'm lmao @ Merideth making the comment " We can have Where in the world is Matt Lauer airing at 10 o'clock"
and now Conan and his crew are on HBO Max.
wow, the only compliment for leno on youtube
"This isn't exactly what the viewers wanted." Well why the hell did you take the show from Conan and give it back to Jay Leno?
It's a business decision but most people don't like to hear that. NBC decided they were better off with Jay Leno and that was obviously true.
When he said friend of ours, it got me thinkin in hindsight.
Fucking NBC.. Cancelled My Name is Earl too
charlie rose and matt lauer in the same video talking about the conan/leno fiasco. this needs to go in a time capsule lol
thank god he got his sketches back in tbs
And now they have fallon. Wow
If Conan married that news announcer, he'f be Conan Cowan.
You don't seem to understand what went on here. They didn't fire Conan. He left on his own. When Conan got the tonight show, they also gave Leno the lead in, and they BOTH tanked in the ratings. NBC affiliates complained because Leno's show was causing a drop in their late new ratings, so NBC was going to move both shows back a half hour. Conan would have kept the job had he agreed to do the Tonight Show with a 12:05am start time. He had the option to leave as well, and that's what he did.
i still havnt seen a single episode of jay lenos bullshit. why? cause i fall asleep half way through. conan is actually entertaining. LONG LIVE CONAN!!
If I was in charge back then, I would have moved Jay Leno to Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at 10.00pm, these days of the schedule are usually the weakest on a network, with Friday traditionally a dumping ground for failed sitcoms, with Saturdays and Sundays given over to re-runs of dramas, sport and political shows. So having Jay at 10.00pm on these three nights would have provided an alternative, and would have been a good lead in for SNL on Saturday nights.
17 years?!!! GIVE IT A REST LENO
It was about ratings and money.
One word: Business
Lol the director said they want to try something new, even if its a risk. If Jay Leno is something new then im Bill Gates and i own all of you.
NBC didn't want to let any of their talent go but didn't have room for both of them.
I LOVE COCO
Conan is the best period and NBC's lost and TBS's gain.
Loses "The Tonight Show", gets "Conan". What a man!
@italkart24racer I'm 20 years old and I agree with you. As I commented in another video about the exact same negativity over Leno supposedly stealing the show from Conan, I simply prefer Leno's humor over Conan's humor. It's just my personal opinion. I find him funnier than the other late night talk show hosts. I find it highly offensive when people tell me that I'm stupid or boring or an idiot because I like watching Leno's monologue and comedic segments over those of the other hosts.
Given Leno had it first, NBC execs were the ones who screwed Conan more than Leno did. They could have fired Leno, but instead wanted to appease both by giving him another show, then later put him back at the Tonight Show. They should have let him decide when like they let Johnny, screwing both like this, then choosing Leno over Conan made people hate Leno when it's not 100% warranted...
@ColorsBright hes going to be on a show on tbs starting in november i think
You folks are so ignorant. If Conan was a better draw than Leno the show would be his. It's all about money.
3:47 "Me too but the joke that I have in my mind is more important"
All that just for Jay Leno to have it for four years
3:45, HE TAKES THE ELEVATOR TO A HIDDEN DESTINATION, WHERE IN THE BUILDING IS, HUh Andy Ricter. lulz
I really liked that bit :(
"You fired me twice"
Lol nothing like what happened to Conan buddy
How does NBC fuck up the Tonight Show twice?!?
CONAN by all means best ever! WTF where they thinking?
RIP conando *tears*
Why would anybody do this? Because Conan agreed to turn down another network's offer when NBC said they would remove Jay to give Conan "The Tonight Show". And when NBC decided they were making a mistake and wanted Jay to stay, Conan felt like he was suddenly second best again. But it was the network and Conan's ambition that really made this thing happen. Not Jay.
Please explain why Jay Leno got it back. Surely they fire Jay and keep Conan at 11.35pm? Shouldn't they have paid Jay the $45 million to fuck off? I know Conan did well and has a hell of a lot more freedom on TBS than he would ever have had on NBC, but as a British person viewing this, NBC should have paid off Jay.
I'm sorry but I've always thought Conan was funnier than Leno, Leno is for the older/mature crowd, which is cool but his humor is just dry & lame. For Leno to steal Conan's show, was so low its just beyond words I just want to smack him.
I'm from NY and Conan, his family, and staffers where here and relocated to California. For NBC to put all of them through this just to give it back to Leno was F-cking LOW!!! What goes around, comes around (as told by Justin Timberlake).:D !
What a bizarre chapter in television history.
Kind of. NBC wanted Conan to take over the Tonight Show, told Leno it wanted him to leave, he agreed. NBC didn't want to let him go, gave him a prime time show, it bombed, so they brought him back to the Tonight Show and gave Conan the boot. It wasn't like Leno was quitting all on this own, it was what NBC wanted from the beginning, it just all went horribly wrong, as most things with NBC do.
the writers strike and the late night wars were good times for late night tv.
Haha! Where's the reptilian people conspiracies when you need them @ 3:11
The realistic public perception rating is: 1. Conan, 2. Stewart 3. Jimmy 4. Letterman 5. C-span, 6. County government channel, 7. Kardashians 8. Leno
when did this aire?
Eight year: Matt Laur, Charlie Rose--out amidst disgrace. Conan on TBS, Jay Leno out. For me it was always Letterman and now Colbert. No late night talk show host approaches the genius of Colbert.
No, actually Jay's number one again and NBC's making money off him. They never should've taken him off in the first place.
As much as I agree with pretty much everyone in the comment section. Jay Leno will always be the face of late night talk shows for me. However, I'm only 25 so I maybe out of my element here.
If Conan’s tonight show had DVR and RUclips like Fallon has had during his era, he would have been almost as successful
NBC did bring this on themselves had if they let Jay Leno retire when he did, instead of having him host a prime time show, and looked at how it did. Had they let Jay Leno retire and not give him the primetime show, who knows how Conan O'Brein could have done in the job that he had been promised. I would imagine eventually Jimmy Fallon would have moved on to host the Tonight Show but for sure not 4 years after 2010.
2:32 who is the guest?
If scorcese give leonardo di caprio a role in a movie is leo supposed to be happy or supposed to say "oh gee tom cruise was supposed to play this part im gonna give it to him." And while you are at it ask YOURSELVES this question: if your boss chose to promote you instead of your friend are you supposed to celebrate or say hey i shud give it to my friend!! Bottomline: it is not conan's or leno's call. It is NBC's call and THEY were the ones responsible for not making this smooth transition.
Conan❤
@natechaters LOL good point. Their risk-taking apparently involved bringing back the milquetoast stalwart.
Leno destroyed his legacy with this mess...he should have simply stepped away and gracefully exited. Moving to 10pm was dumb and only served to harm the Tonight Show franchise.
NBC would have had to pay him a fortune to step away in 2009, his contract was not done, and so they were the ones who told him to go to 10pm to save them a fortune.
I will not watch Leno anymore!!! I just watched it to get to Conan anyway!! Conan RULES!!!
It was stupid to fire Conan O'Brien, bring in Jay Leno (who would leave shortly). I wish Conan O'Brien was kept.
Hey Jeff, there's a reason why the word "fucker" rhymes with your last name.
Given that TECHNICALLY leno didnt STEAL the job back what he did was wrong, he DIDNT LEAVE AT ALL!!! Which gave NBC the option of kicking conan ANYTIME bcoz leno made sure he was ALWAYS AVAILABLE. Period. His rich he doesnt need the money. And if its bcoz he loves doing it he already got to do it for 17years all of the past host had to give it up at one point even if they wanted to do it until they die bcoz they have run their course and they know that it was never for them to keep. Regardless
Anyone who likes to judge should probably first read Bill Carter's book "The War For Late Night" which is an unbiased account of what actually happened during the Tonight Show Debacle. As for referring to "our people" as ignorant "r"-words, I doubt even Conan would thank you for that brand of...support.
I miss so much Conan's late show. He was funnier and riskier at a later time, his writers were better and New York guests are more interesting. No more Walker Texas Ranger lever...Cactus that plays "We didn't start the Fire".....The Tonight Show died when Johnny Carson left.
I agree. It shows Lenos true colors. I liked him on the Tonight show...but he never truly gave Conan a fair shot. I fear if Conan goes to Fox...his show will get cancelled. People just dont watch Fox at night!
no ratings, no show, business is business
As much as I dislike Leno's humor and love Conan, I do agree with this
People that watch NBC news are not Conan viewers. Conan always needed to jump ship and get with Viacom.
If Jay Leno really had sympathy for Conan, he wouldn't have taken the Tonight Show back. Jay took away Conan's dream and he knew it.
Leno was a complete bastard for this one lol
jay's a good guy and very funny
NBC paid Conan 45 million to not do a show? Wow great business move there. All because they would not let Jay Leno go off into retirement.
I haven't watched NBC since Conan left.
Conan is the future, Leno is the past. Why replacing the past with the future, then replacing the future with the past? I think the guys responsible for that also canceled Star Trek and Futurama.
HASENT IT BEEN 7 MONTHS ALREADY??? CONAN WHERE ARE U??
Leno came back for almost no time at all before he gave the show to the other guy who does the job Conan used to do= What does Leno have against Conan? The plot thickens.
Not according to the Neilsen ratings it's more like Jay, Letterman, Kimmel, Fallon, Stewart, Colbert, Ferguson, O'Brien, and then Carson Daly.
Leno is like the Dudde who gets you fire because your more likable and honest. Just because he needs more gas money.
The comments section...wow. I knew the Conan fanbase tend to hold a grudge but still...they act like Leno did to Conan what Max Shreck did to Selina Kyle in Batman Returns.
I wish someone stole something for me and then gave me 45 million dollars
Leno said he would leave but he didn't.