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O'Brien out, Leno back in?

I want to see Norm MacDonald as a guest. Conan loves the guy, and Norm has a habitt of saying things he shouldn't. Take for exampe: when he hosted SNL, just less than two years after being fired from it... (now that was an opening monologue)
 
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Squiggy said:
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How about jerking off bear, or masturbating polar bear, or in the year 2001. I mean there are a lot of ways to get around the NBC BS. Plus do they really want to sue him if he does get his own show somewhere else? Bringing back all these lovely memories? :lol:
 
I would have loved to be a meeting where people sit round a table and have a serious discussion about who owns a masturbating bear.:lol:
 
Dennis said:
In their days, Allen and Paar were both enormously successful, unique TV personalities and The Tonight Show was closely identified with them. Allen basically invented the late-night format. Think about that for a moment. These guys all have their disparate personalities and comedic postures, and all follow the same format fifty-five years later...

There's quite a famous incident involving Paar as the host which is summarized thusly at wikipedia:

On February 11, 1960, Jack Paar walked off his show for a month after NBC censors edited out a segment, taped the night before, about a joke involving a "W.C." (water closet, a polite term for a flush toilet) being confused for a "wayside chapel." As he left his desk, he said, "I am leaving The Tonight Show. There must be a better way of making a living than this." Paar's abrupt departure left his startled announcer, Hugh Downs, to finish the broadcast himself.

Paar returned to the show on March 7, 1960, strolled on stage, struck a pose, and said, "As I was saying before I was interrupted..." After the audience erupted in applause, Paar continued, "When I walked off, I said there must be a better way of making a living. Well, I've looked... and there isn't."
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Out of curiousity, are any of the old Steve Allen or Jack Parr bits available on DVD? I occasionally see infomercials for Johnny Carson DVDs but what about the older stuff? Does it still exist, or has it been erased BBC style?

Jetfire said:
Would it suck if Leno goes back to the The Tonight Show and in a year passes it on to Jimmy Fallon?
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The good news is that Fallon is starting to get his sea legs. He's still not as good as Conan O'Brien or Craig Ferguson but he's better than Jay Leno phoning it in. I thought his thank you letters last night were pretty funny. And I'm always a sucker for Head Swap!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NLWVUqzCPg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JPGchZaJFo
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Yoda said:
If you think that giving the 11:35 show to Conan, only to be pushed back 30 minutes by the guy who used to host the 11:35 show, and now hosts a 'new' show with a different name from his original studio in the exact same time slot goes with the spirit of the agreement and isn't insulting, you're nuts.
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I'd agree that it's a little ego bruising. However, I don't think that it's a great moral wrong that must be stopped at any cost. I don't think NBC has treated either host very well, neither Conan for re-replacing him after only 7 months, nor Leno for forcing him out in the first place. But I don't think there is a "right" side in all of this. I think Conan is funnier than Jay, so I'm rooting for his show. However, none of this would have happened if Conan hadn't pushed NBC for a better deal back in 2004. Much like what happened with David Letterman back in 1992-93, rather than feel flattered that NBC was trying to build a solid late night line-up of all the best comedians possible, they decided to play hardball in hopes of getting a "better" timeslot and the "honor" of sitting in "Johnny Carson"'s chair.

MeanJoePhaser said:
FreezeC77 said:
I hope Conan busts out the Masturbating Bear for his last week.
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On the last episode, and then the bear takes his mask off and under it is...Jay Leno! :eek:

The whole thing was a set up! Leno retires, NBC is forced to keep Conan or scramble to find a new host.

Or Joel Godard under the mask...more likely.
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I'd love to see Joel Godard back! Since he's already brought back Andy Richter, Joel is the last missing piece of the puzzle. (Well, that and the celebrity cut-out "interviews.")
 
The Borgified Corpse said:
The good news is that Fallon is starting to get his sea legs. He's still not as good as Conan O'Brien or Craig Ferguson but he's better than Jay Leno phoning it in. I thought his thank you letters last night were pretty funny. And I'm always a sucker for Head Swap!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NLWVUqzCPg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JPGchZaJFo
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wow that's fuckin funny. I've rarely watched Fallon past the monologue because the deafening silence is painful, I guess it makes sense he would be better at sketches and stuff like that.
 
I think I've heard the best name for a Conan on fox show so far in the TNZ counterpart thread to this one.

Night Time with Conan O'Brien.

Would work with the band too... Max Weinberg and the Night Time Band.
 
NBC would probably throw a fit, but they could call it "Tonight with Conan O'Brien". Personally, I think it's distinctive enough to pass muster, but there would certainly be an argument in court about it.

Or they could take a pure synonym and call it "The Evening Expo with Conan O'Brien".
 
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