OT-Conan Leaving Tonight Show
According to deadspin.com and other sources next week will be Conan's last week hosting the Tonight Show.
http://deadspin.com/5448422/former-late-night-talk-show-writer-reveals-…
My thoughts on this are that Conan is getting screwed over by both Leno and NBC, and Conan will end up hosting a show on FOX. Your thoughts?
January 14th, 2010 at 10:08 PM ^
That you can't have your cake and eat it too.
They tried to keep one of the two (Conan/Leno) from leaving and competing directly with their show, like Letterman has, and have failed to keep both sides happy.
I have my own reasons to hate NBC (The way they treated my favorite show Scrubs makes me disgusted), but this recent turn of events does not surprise me because this is how NBC acts.
I honestly would love it if both of them left and NBC would have nothing. They deserve it after their treatment of both their main players.
January 14th, 2010 at 10:44 PM ^
The last few nights have made for some really interesting television with the whole "fuck everything, we're going out and bringing you with us assholes" atmosphere.
January 15th, 2010 at 10:50 AM ^
ZING!
Conan joked at the top of his Thursday night show: "There's a rumor that NBC is so upset with me, they want to keep me off the air for three years. My response to that is if NBC doesn't want people to see me, just leave me on NBC."
January 15th, 2010 at 2:54 PM ^
NBC blows. SNL is about as funny as a root canal, and Must-See TV is dead and gone. Remember "Kings" anyone? The only reason why I watched their shitty network was because of "Consy". I remember watching his show for the first time on Thanksgiving night back in '93 and thinking to myself "This show is funny, too bad they're going to cancel him soon." Dude paid his dues, and they are screwing him. This is just a ploy to get Leno back on the Tonight Show.Jay Leno is cheesy at best, and his shit got played out eons ago. The only thing that he did that was funny was Headlines. I got sick of the damn geriatrics bitchin' about Conan. Carson's been dead for five years, and retired since '92. Besides, what the hell are they doing up at 11:30 anyway? I don't recall reruns of Matlock and Murder She Wrote being on that late.
January 15th, 2010 at 3:41 PM ^
30 Rock and The Office, that's about it...but the demographic that prefers Jay Leno probably doesn't appreciate the humor on those shows, either. Of course everyone has a different idea of what funny is, but I don't know many people my age who find the format of the old Tonight Show to be compelling TV. I guess the folks at NBC don't want to ride out the growing pains of Conan's reign and are just going back to a formula that is 'guaranteed' to work. That may blow up in their faces, though.
January 16th, 2010 at 1:12 AM ^
the skit with Andy Richter called the Late Night Mascot Orgy?...funniest thing i have seen on broadcast tv
January 17th, 2010 at 6:21 PM ^
POINT
January 18th, 2010 at 3:51 PM ^
I get tired of the JAY SCREWED LETTERMAN, NBC SCREWED LETTERMAN shit.
Point #1. It was never Jay who screwed Letterman, it was his manager. Read The Late Shift, the author of which probably did 10,000 times more research than Patton Oswald.
Point #2. NBC didn't owe Dave the Tonight Show just because he hosted the show after it. Nobody expected Tom Snyder would take over for Carson when that was his timeslot. Similarly, who Johnny personally wanted was meaningless... NBC is only in it for NBC, not to make people feel warm and fuzzy.
Point #3. Leno killed Letterman. For about 15 consecutive years. NBC bet the right horse. Why don't we commend them for looking at their audience and saying "These folks won't go for Stupid Pet Tricks" and acting accordingly? We wouldn't be in this situation if NBC execs in 2003 had that kind of foresight.