Pleasing an undeserved ego(Jay Leno screwing everyone over)

[Jerry]

Last week we explained what's going on in the Late Night Wars. Since getting completely screwed over and announcing he wouldn't follow Jay, Conan has been on fire and going to town on NBC. He's just been ripping them apart. And last night he took it a step further wasting literally millions of NBC dollars for no reason. It's excellent. Nothing makes me smile as much as this.

The clip starts with Conan mocking a segment from Jay Leno when he ended his first run on the Tonight Show where he showed all the babies born during his run. Conan does the same, but he's only been on the air for 7 months. Then he wastes a lot of money just to stick it to NBC. Go team CoCo! Watch NBC burn:

The video - shows Conan and old sidekick Andy Ritcher, talking about "staff's babies" over their their 7 month run... but unfortunately the only "births" they had was a staff member who had a liter of hamster babies.

so they showed a tank filled hamster babies.

Then the showed [supposedly the most expensive car in the world] dress up like a mouse and played some sorta theme song which apparently is expensive to air both on TV and on the internet.

COST -   $1.5 MILLION DOLLARS. probably the most expensive bit possible. :P

You should watch the video, and support Conan - NBC should eat the cost.

[Stormfalcon]

Speaking of videos...What a way to wrap things up

[lyricaldanichan]

Conan explained last night that this was all a joke.. a very elaborate one.

Last week we explained what's going on in the Late Night Wars. Since getting completely screwed over and announcing he wouldn't follow Jay, Conan has been on fire and going to town on NBC. He's just been ripping them apart. And last night he took it a step further wasting literally millions of NBC dollars for no reason. It's excellent. Nothing makes me smile as much as this.

The clip starts with Conan mocking a segment from Jay Leno when he ended his first run on the Tonight Show where he showed all the babies born during his run. Conan does the same, but he's only been on the air for 7 months. Then he wastes a lot of money just to stick it to NBC. Go team CoCo! Watch NBC burn:

The video - shows Conan and old sidekick Andy Ritcher, talking about "staff's babies" over their their 7 month run... but unfortunately the only "births" they had was a staff member who had a liter of hamster babies.

so they showed a tank filled hamster babies.

Then the showed [supposedly the most expensive car in the world] dress up like a mouse and played some sorta theme song which apparently is expensive to air both on TV and on the internet.

COST -   $1.5 MILLION DOLLARS. probably the most expensive bit possible. :P

You should watch the video, and support Conan - NBC should eat the cost.

[Glitch]

The speech conan gave toward the end of the show was really heartfelt. Not just as a fan, but as also sombody who has had conan influence the way I do comedy, this guy is one class act. When he mentioned he didn't like the cynism he was seeing with fans, it almost me feel bad for drawing the pic I posted earlier.
I hope the speech he gave is somewhere on youtube.

[Liquid]

Some people are trying to say, "Don't blame Leno, it's NBC's fault!", but it is Leno's fault in many ways too. He didn't have to agree to bow out after 5 years. He could have added a stipulation in his contract that if he held up ratings or made them better that he could have continued hosting. Also, if he really didn't want to screw over Conan, he could have refused NBC's offer to push Conan off his time slot or even refused to take back the Tonight Show. NBC would have had to come up with an alternate plan then. Hell, Fallon doesn't really deserve the slot he's in. (Nothing against Fallon, but it's not like he has a great show.) NBC could have just put Conan on the Tonight Show and gave Leno the slot that Conan used to run in. NBC really had no obligation to promote Fallon.

Leno is a dick. He tries to play like he's just a normal American guy by wearing his blue jeans, but he has millions of dollars in cars and no family. In the end he only cares about himself.

Apparently back when him and Letterman were both in the running to host the Tonight Show, Leno hid in the closet when some of the execs were having a meeting about it, so that he could get inside information on how to secure his place as the host.

Leno is a weasel who is trying to play like he's also a victim. Bull****.

[Jerry]

http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/conans-surprising-new-deal-with-nbc--947

more random news about Conan:
We won't be seeing Conan O'Brien hosting a TV show until at least September, a stipulation of his reported $44 million separation agreement with NBC. But that doesn't mean Conan's dealings with the network are completely over -- NBC has just greenlit the first show in a series produced by Conan's NBC-based production company.



The pilot is for a show called "Justice," and it tells the story of a (presumably fictional) Supreme Court justice who quits his lifetime appointment to open his own law practice. Part of Conan's deal with NBC allowed his production company, Conaco, to continue operation until the end of development season.



As for Conan's late-night prospects on other networks, there's no news yet, but if there's a made-for-TV movie about this winter's late night wars (like the 1996 HBO movie "Late Shift" about Jay Leno and David Letterman's battle for "The Tonight Show" seat), we know who wants to play Conan: the actress Tilda Swinton.



Conan O'Brien and Tilda Swinton
Steve Granitz/WireImage, Jeff Vespa/WireImage

After Conan joked during his last show that he'd like the Oscar-winning redhead actress to play him in an HBO movie, Movieline.com asked Swinton about it in an interview at Sundance this week.



"I've heard about Conan! I'm so thrilled," the actress told Movieline. And when asked if she would accept the role, she answered "Yes, yes, yes, absolutely." Swinton went on to joke that in return, Conan should do interviews promoting her movie, "I Am Love," at Sundance.


As for Conan's now-former rival for the "Tonight Show" spot: NBC, which is reportedly still rattled by the late night fiasco taking attention away from the Winter Olympics, has announced that Jay Leno's current 10 pm show will go off the air two days earlier than previously planned, on February 9th.



Talk About It: What would you like to see Conan do next?

[Liquid]

Co-Host the Andy Richter Show on Fox or Comedy Central until September, when the show is changed to the Conan O'Brien Show.

[Glitch]

If Conan does wind up on Fox, I hope they give him full support and don't just pull plug if he isn't an instant success.(I've noticed this with fox and also mtv)
Although leno had hire ratings hosting the tonight show than Conan, Conan has a much stronger fan following. Whoever gives Conan a show should come up with merchandise related to his show and advertised on air.(like let say a masturbating bear shirt) That would be one smart move, and not something leno or letterman could pull off.

[Jerry]

technically this was this years super bowl commercial.... but it involves Jay Leno.... -

article:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/how-the-letterman-oprah-leno-super-bowl-ad-came-together/

youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSKkmypTZM&feature=player_embedded

Jay and Dave together? Could it be true?

It is, and there they were, Jay Leno and David Letterman sitting on a couch – with Oprah Winfrey between them — upstairs at the Ed Sullivan Theater, where Mr. Letterman tapes his show.

The spot was shot last Tuesday afternoon, under the strictest of secrecy which involved both Mr. Leno and Ms. Winfrey flying in surreptitiously to New York, and arriving incognito at the theater, while Mr. Letterman was in the midst of taping his show for that night. It also involved Jay wearing a disguise: hooded sweatshirt, glasses and faux mustache. If you happened to be on Broadway between 53rd and 54th street last Tuesday about 4:15, you might have seen a man fitting that description slip into the theater by a small entrance under the marquee.

According to staff members of the "Late Show with David Letterman" who were on the scene that day — including the executive producer, Rob Burnett – it all happened because Mr. Letterman had an idea he thought would be truly funny: a Super Bowl ad that featured the two longest-running adversaries in late night, sitting with Ms. Winfrey as though at a Super Bowl party.

What gave the idea extra spin, of course, was that the relationship between Mr. Letterman and Mr. Leno has been especially fractious of late in the wake of NBC's moves that led to the departure of Conan O'Brien from the "Tonight" show and Mr. Leno's impending return to the show, where he will once again go head to head with Mr. Letterman.

In the weeks since the decision was announced, Mr. Letterman had been notably acerbic in his on-air jokes about Mr. Leno, suggesting he was a schemer in some way in the moves that led to the changes in late night, and Mr. Leno had responded with jokes about Mr. Letterman's well-covered romantic entanglements.

That added to the surprise viewers encountered when the ad came up and there the two comics were, flanking Ms. Winfrey, in essence for a promotion for Mr. Letterman's show.

As Mr. Burnett described it, Mr. Letterman had the idea to invite Mr. Leno to participate, playing off a similar ad he put together with Ms. Winfrey the last time CBS had the Super Bowl, in 2007. "Dave wrote the bit himself," Mr. Burnett said. "He just thought: it's the Super Bowl, you're supposed to entertain people."

Steps were taken to contact Ms. Winfrey, who agreed immediately, Mr. Burnett said, and then Mr. Leno. Mr. Burnett said he spoke with Mr. Leno's executive producer, Debbie Vickers. "She asked if this was for real and then she laughed for about 10 minutes," Mr. Burnett said.

Mr. Leno quickly agreed, but the idea had to be passed by the top NBC executives, including the chief executive, Jeff Zucker. Permission was granted.

Mr. Leno was able to get Tuesday free – NBC had rearranged its schedule to pre-empt his 10 p.m. show that night — and took the NBC corporate jet, Mr. Burnett said. There seemed little chance though that Mr. Leno could sneak into Mr. Letterman's theater unseen, so the idea was hatched to try to sneak him in during a live taping, in disguise.

Both guests turned up while Mr. Letterman was on stage doing his show. They were kept in a secret green room until the show was over and the theater was cleared. Then Mr. Leno and Ms. Winfrey went up to the theater balcony where a living room set was fashioned with a faux TV and a couch.

Mr. Letterman arrived a short time later. The two late-night rivals greeted each other warmly, Mr. Burnett said. "It was very friendly, very professional, totally cordial," he said. "You could tell these were two guys who have known each other for a long time."

The idea Mr. Letterman came up with was for him to be first seen alone, complaining about being at the worst Super Bowl party ever — then to be seen in a two-shot with Ms. Winfrey as he had been in 2007, with her telling him to be nice. And then Mr. Leno would be revealed at the other end of the couch saying that Mr. Letterman was only complaining because he was there.

Mr. Letterman followed doing a mock-Jay voice. The 15-second spot was shot quickly and efficiently, Mr. Burnett said. "I'd say it took no more that 20 or 30 minutes," he said.

"I think everybody wanted to do it just because they all knew it would get attention and they all just wanted to do something funny."

After the taping was completed, Mr. Letterman thanked his guests and they said a cordial goodbye, Mr. Burnett said. The two stars slipped back out into the Manhattan night, Mr. Leno back in his faux mustache.

"This wasn't done to help Dave or to help Jay," Mr. Burnett said, "though I think it does help both of them. It was just done because Dave thought it would be funny and would entertain people. Nothing went beyond that."


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Le sigh. :P

[Liquid]

In the original idea David Letterman wanted Conan there too, but their team was so busy wrapping up the Tonight Show that they never really got back to Letterman, although the team had expressed interest to be involved in the bit.

[Jerry]

In the original idea David Letterman wanted Conan there too, but their team was so busy wrapping up the Tonight Show that they never really got back to Letterman, although the team had expressed interest to be involved in the bit.

I thought Conan's buyout Contract prevented him from doing "anything" [censorship] til like what was it September 2010 ?

I swear Conan just fell off the face of the planet.

well minus this Face of Conan. --- completely made of cheetos.

[Liquid]

I thought Conan's buyout Contract prevented him from doing "anything" [censorship] til like what was it September 2010 ?

From my understanding, it was just that he couldn't HOST a show until September. Which is why there were jokes that he'd co-host a show hosted by Andy Richter.

[Jerry]

proving that the economy still fails. :P

[Jerry]

" Business " as usual - minus Conan. :(

Jay Leno's Big Return to 'The Tonight Show'
By Mike Ryan | Monday, March 1, 2010, 10:57 PM


Jay Leno
NBC/Justin Lubin

For Jay Leno, it appears there is no place like home. In his return as the host of "The Tonight Show," Leno made little attempt to change his humor to win over the fans of his quirkier predecessor, Conan O'Brien.



In the show's opening sketch, Leno made no effort to joke about the late night wars of the past few weeks — or to joke about a recent event, period. Instead, he opted to reference "The Wizard of Oz," a 70-year-old movie. Leno ended the sketch by remembering that he had a show to do that evening. It was an oddly similar opening to O'Brien's first "Tonight Show," in which O'Brien forgets the show is filmed in L.A.



Even with a well-timed cameo by Betty White (who is being rallied by thousands of fans to be a "Saturday Night Live" host), it felt like business as usual at "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno."





Instead of mentioning the late night controversy in his opening monologue, Leno focused his comedic wisecracks on ... the Russian Olympic team. This was followed by a mock clip of Leno being punched by an Olympic skier and the introduction of a new segment called "World's Tightest Pants." In comparison, the "Wizard of Oz" sketch was quite inspired.





Leno showed a pre-taped segment in which he goes door-to-door in search of his new desk. During this quest, he encounters a woman with an angry small dog who was either rabid or on Team Coco.



Leno welcomed Jamie Foxx as his second first guest in the past six months. Considering Leno didn't ask Foxx any real questions, Foxx didn't particularly say much of anything, but he did rap.





A montage of all of Foxx's movie roles was shown, then Foxx sprayed champagne on the audience — an obvious preview of Foxx's 2038 Lifetime Achievement Award Oscar.



Olympic skiing gold medalist Lindsey Vonn and country music star Brad Paisley rounded out the evening. Paisley's song repeated the lyric, "Just another American Saturday night." Fitting for Leno because, after all the controversy, we're right back where we started: Witnessing just another American Monday night. Again, business as usual.

[Glitch]

Leno's got a big mess he has to work with.
The only thing I'm worried about right now is if Conan has a monster comeback once he's able to host a show. ^.^

[Jerry]

Leno's got a big mess he has to work with.
The only thing I'm worried about right now is if Conan has a monster comeback once he's able to host a show. ^.^

again not til September.

Damn thats like another 6 months

[Glitch]

Leno's got a big mess he has to work with.
The only thing I'm worried about right now is if Conan has a monster comeback once he's able to host a show. ^.^

again not til September.

Damn thats like another 6 months

This an obvious ploy by NBC so that all the excitement about Conan has died down by the tme he gets another show. Let's hope their evil plot fails.

[N.E.R.V.agent220]

It's not about Conan's *In The year 2000 monologue*,  It's all about Jay and his collection of model cars. ;D

[Glitch]

It's not about Conan's *In The year 2000 monologue*,  It's all about Jay and his collection of model cars. ;D

His model cars don't make me laugh. At least not on purpose.

[N.E.R.V.agent220]

It's not about Conan's *In The year 2000 monologue*,  It's all about Jay and his collection of model cars. ;D

His model cars don't make me laugh. At least not on purpose.

What's funny is one of Conan's band members (La Bamba) is gay, As to Jay's Tonight Show band smooth.