Tonight Show

America’s late night talk show crisis is almost an end with Conan O’Brien set to get the sack from the Tonight Show at the end of this week for the sooky Jay Leno who has decided he wants his old job back, and apparenlty has some born right to host the Tonight Show.


The whole saga has been covered to the point of exhaustion in the US media, with Conan walking away with a cool $45 million and also likely to go to the FOX network for a brand new show. For his part David Letterman’s joy over NBC’s troubles has bubbled over in to outright self-indulgent schadenfreude in his opening monologues, largely because he was overlooked for the job himself more than a decade ago.

The upside is that someone as funny as Conan O’Brien, fresher and funnier than both Leno and Letterman for many years, has an entire week left to get back at the people giving him the sack. So what do you do? Spend all their money of course.

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  • Phillip Molly Malone says:

    11:12am | 28/01/10

    A) if you haven’t already, watch the movie “the late shift” about the Letterman/Leno wars over the tonight show when carsen left. b) I am sure everyone relises that this is just a skit and doesn’t cost that much c) I wonder if NBC were dumb enough to not rule… Read more »

  • Merryn says:

    05:32pm | 27/01/10

    S.L. - I am an Aussie living in America. Let me tell you about Conan O’Brien from my perspective. I’ve always preferred Jay Leno - until now. My husband always preferred Conan O’Brien. Jay Leno announced 2-3 years ago that he was intending to retire from The Tonight Show, and… Read more »

 

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