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Ch28 01-12-2010 11:01 PM

Watching Conan right now and all they're talking about is NBC haha

FN-2199 01-12-2010 11:24 PM

^ LOL, SO GOOD!

urrh 01-12-2010 11:27 PM

he didn't pull any punches tonight

dub.g 01-12-2010 11:34 PM

switching between letterman and conan, lol at Letterman really giving it to Leno, almost every segment, he makes a referrence to him

trip 01-12-2010 11:39 PM

to support conan tonight i turned on all my tvs in the house and put it on NBC

thats like
5 tvs lol


only good thing about fallon is the roots

Ch28 01-12-2010 11:52 PM

http://tvtattle.com/images/kimmel.leno.conan2.jpg

Kimmel :bowrofl:

Ch28 01-12-2010 11:54 PM

http://tv.gawker.com/5446744/late-ni...in-leno-avoids

All the clips are here

El Bastardo 01-13-2010 12:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Senna4ever (Post 6767735)
Who else misses Carson?


I think you and I are the only ones old enough to remember watching Carson

StylinRed 01-13-2010 12:36 AM

do u guys watch entertainment news at all

Conan was threatening to leave NBC unless they gave him the Tonight Show

NBC didn't want another Letterman debacle and caved in and Leno got pushed out

the 2004 deal i thought was just a promise he would "one-day" get the tonight show?



and Leno is still pulling 5million+ viewers how is that wrong? watch any actual news report and you'll read it

Leno isn't failing in terms of his show, he's just failing @ Primetime

Conan on the other hand is failing the Tonight Show his ratings are weak and falling... Less Than Jay when he was at the helm and less than Letterman, even less than Nightline

Senna4ever 01-13-2010 01:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by El Bastardo (Post 6767894)
I think you and I are the only ones old enough to remember watching Carson

Johnny Carson retired in 1992, not that long ago, it's only 2009 now......oh..shit...:cry:

akalic 01-13-2010 01:22 AM

that's why you deal with the consequences of having made a "deal" in 2004. Clearly back tracking their way out of this deal wasn't the smartest idea anyways. you also got to factor in that conan was only hosting the tonight show for 7 months, which is a relatively short lived career with the tonight show. all in all, after all the shit hits the fan, let's hope fallon is out :D

seakrait 01-13-2010 02:30 AM

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/...8c888e07_o.jpg

stuff99 01-13-2010 05:38 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A98_-EeXS_I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msC3uu4KZbg

http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrie...11210/1192419/

http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrie...11210/1192435/

stuff99 01-13-2010 05:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StylinRed (Post 6767895)
do u guys watch entertainment news at all

Conan was threatening to leave NBC unless they gave him the Tonight Show

NBC didn't want another Letterman debacle and caved in and Leno got pushed out

the 2004 deal i thought was just a promise he would "one-day" get the tonight show?



and Leno is still pulling 5million+ viewers how is that wrong? watch any actual news report and you'll read it

Leno isn't failing in terms of his show, he's just failing @ Primetime

Conan on the other hand is failing the Tonight Show his ratings are weak and falling... Less Than Jay when he was at the helm and less than Letterman, even less than Nightline

Conan never threatened to leave, Fox gave him an offer, ABC gave Leno an offer. NBC came to him we know you want the Tonight Show, promised him the show in 2009. He waited 5 years for it. Leno didn't disagree but regretted it in 2008. ABC wanted Leno. NBC panicked, offered him 10pm show.

The thing is why does Leno want it so bad? He does nothing with the darn show. He was thumped for a few years in ratings until Hugh Grant came on his show. Letterman got thumped for the past decade by Leno in ratings yet CBS stood by. NBC needs to be more patient. Leno is really getting stale, and I was a fan of his a decade ago. His show is the exact same show he did 10 years ago. With Conan and even Letterman you sometime just don't know what to expect from them.

The fact that Leno has huge ratings is because old ppl and middle America feel safe with him.

misteranswer 01-13-2010 05:49 AM

Leno attracts the young people. It's the old people who watch Letterman. The few that can stay up that late.

sonick 01-13-2010 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Senna4ever (Post 6767735)
Who else misses Carson?

Yeah man, Carson Daly is awesome.






Kidding.

Wongtouski 01-13-2010 07:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by misteranswer (Post 6768021)
Leno attracts the young people.

HUH? Maybe young people who don't speak English very well.....

Jsunu 01-13-2010 07:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by seakrait (Post 6767297)
that sucks for conan. much respect for him. and i like jay leno too... if only for his everyday man persona and his love of cars. not sure how much of this is really his doing vs the NBC executives but i'm ready to dislike him if he, a man already having had a good long career and of good name, is ready to screw over a colleague for better ratings.

For me, Leno always seemed like honest alright guy, but also a workaholic - I can imagine how he would go crazy trying to live with retirement when all his life has been work. I put the blame entirely on the execs in NBC that tried to cut production costs for the 10:00pm timeslot by introducing the leno show.

spoon.ek9 01-13-2010 10:01 AM

conan was fucking hilarious last night haha.. so many jabs at nbc. can't wait for tonight's show!

dub.g 01-13-2010 10:22 AM

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/m...ith_coco_2.jpg

i put that up on my fb profile pic, its spreading on fb haha

MR_BIGGS 01-13-2010 10:24 AM

Conan was hilarious last night, but Kimmel takes the prize cause he dressed up like Leno and he even had Chevy Chase wearing a Conan hair piece. loll

El Bastardo 01-13-2010 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MR_BIGGS (Post 6768200)
Conan was hilarious last night, but Kimmel takes the prize cause he dressed up like Leno and he even had Chevy Chase wearing a Conan hair piece. loll


I really wanted to like Kimmel. I loved 'The Man Show' and thought he could carry that to late night but without Corolla hes just not that great imo.

Unneccisary (sp) Censorship is his best bit and that isn't even him doing the routine, its pre-recorded clips with a beep machine.

Take Corolla off of radio, put him on TV with Kimmel, let them do their thing and you have good late night
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Laundry 01-13-2010 11:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ch28 (Post 6767848)

Man were those funny, I think the fans win out more here with all the great jokes coming at the expense of Leno and NBC... but if Conan does move to Fox or whatever(and takes all the young adult viewers with him), I hope he brings back his comedy, and not the watered down version he put out on the Tonight Show (which would be a great match on Fox)...

7seven 01-13-2010 01:01 PM

lol at NBC if both Conan and Leno leave

Quote:

Jay Leno is not happy with the way things are going down and he thinks NBC has handled the situation terribly. With Conan O'Brien sticking his middle finger up at the network, Leno is not liking what the drama is doing to his image and may follow suit.

Rob Shuter from Pop Eater claims to have the inside scoop that Leno is sick of NBC's antics. "Now that Conan has made it clear he is leaving the troubled network, Jay is considering doing the same. They have put Jay in a terrible position. It looks like he is the reason that Conan is now without a job. Jay is a great guy and it's not fair that due to NBC's stupidity he looks like the bad guy," Shuter says an insider told him.

The source also adds, "Plus, what happens when Jay does return to the 11:35 slot if his audience doesn't immediately follow? How can he possibly trust the same network that canceled Conan after only seven months?"

However, Conan may not be off the hook so easily. A source tells TMZ that Conan's reps never actually asked for a guaranteed time period when they negotiated the $40 million deal meaning that if NBC wants to push the show to as late as 3 a.m., even, the host would have little to no recourse. Conan argues that since The Tonight Show has always been on at the same time, the time slot was "implied."
http://beat.bodoglife.com/entertainm...nbc-64843.html

akalic 01-13-2010 01:53 PM

NBC is so fucked if they both leave..late night television is a huge part of their revenue


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