May you bring joy to many as soon as possible.
I'm sure Conan's new show, wherever and whenever it is, will become the proud institution that the Tonight Show once was.
And I'm sure that the only guests Leno will be able to get will be Jerry Seinfeld and Kim Jong Il.
I was in NYC for an afternoon in 1998 and went to a taping of Late Night with Conan O'brien. Here's a pic of the cue card I got after the show. It's not dated but it's from July 15, 1998.
Sad to see him go, Jay should have just gone instead, wasn't he set to retire?
However...He wasn't THAT good. :lol: They way some people are reacting would have you think that he's God's gift to Late Night.
(That would be Craig Ferguson.)
Late Night King: Steve Allen --> Johnny Carson --> David Letterman --> Conan O'Brien. When Conan gets another show and Dave retires, Conan will be the standard bearer.
On a separate note, Conan wrote the funniest Simpson's episode of all-time (and that's saying something): New Kid on the Block. He also wrote two others that are definitely in the top tier of Simpsons episodes: Marge vs. the Monorail and Homer Goes to College. Too many great lines to mention.
Have always loved Conan since the beginning and thought it was incredibly classy of him to thank NBC on his final show for giving him his start on TV. Got choked up a little myself seeing him get choked up.
He has too much talent not to be on TV and will be back in some medium by the end of the year for sure! :sohappy:
And yet Mr. Leno said he had not received any assurances from NBC executives in New York that he would not be dropped in favor of Mr. Letterman by Jan. 15. That is the deadline NBC is facing to match a CBS offer to give Mr. Letterman about $16 million to star in a nightly talk show at 11:30, the same time as the "Tonight" show.
"I am disappointed," Mr. Leno said. "I feel like a guy who has bought a car from somebody, painted it, fixed it up and made it look nice and then the guy comes back and says he promised to sell the car to his brother-in-law." Go Elsewhere? 'Of Course'
Mr. Leno said he would "obviously leave NBC immediately" if the network decided to give the "Tonight" show to Mr. Letterman. He said he would absolutely refuse to do a show in the 12:30 A.M. spot now occupied by Mr. Letterman's show, "Late Night," and would indeed consider creating the same problem for NBC that Mr. Letterman's proposed deal with CBS caused.
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