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O'Brien out, Leno back in?

What NBC is too stupid to realize is that THIS is Conan's touchstone moment. Jay didn't overtake Letterman until he had his moment two years in - the Hugh Grant thing.

This is essentially Conan's big moment, and ironically its coming as NBC is canning him. Conan is making new fans as we speak. They stumbled into it and will stumble right out.
 
Wow...well, here's a message from NBC. The 3am encore of The Tonight Show they do every night? It's suddenly Jay Leno instead. It was Conan last night, but not any more. My guide even still lists it as The Tonight Show with Conan, but it's now Jay.
 
Wow...well, here's a message from NBC. The 3am encore of The Tonight Show they do every night? It's suddenly Jay Leno instead. It was Conan last night, but not any more. My guide even still lists it as The Tonight Show with Conan, but it's now Jay.

Really? I have Conan on right now at the 3 AM.
 
Wow...well, here's a message from NBC. The 3am encore of The Tonight Show they do every night? It's suddenly Jay Leno instead. It was Conan last night, but not any more. My guide even still lists it as The Tonight Show with Conan, but it's now Jay.

Seriously... what a fucking dick move. If it wasn't for chuck I'd cut off NBC for good.
 
I like this:
JEFF ZUCKER HAD CONAN ARRESTED
http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/n...ed/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

excerpts:

"According to articles in both the Harvard Crimson and Yale Daily News, Zucker, then president of the university's Harvard Crimson daily newspaper, dispatched the police to the Harvard Lampoon office after O'Brien, who was president of the campus humor magazine, organized a prank on his college rival -- stealing an entire print run of the Crimson before it could be distributed."

"ther Lampoon pranks on Zucker included "a fake phone-sex ad with Zucker’s dorm-room phone number. Zucker did not find any of this particularly hilarious"

I love that. Why aren't all of Conan's pranks listed somewhere? :D
 
~Team Leno hacked~

This is interesting as well.
Supporters from I'm With Coco, (Facebook's rally behind Conan which stands at a little over 206,000 members) have hacked Facebook's Team Leno group (which stands at a little under 1500) to change the icon to Coco.

A screencap of the madcap follies:

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EDIT:

One other thing I wikied: "On January 15, All Headline News reported that NBC intended to keep Conan off the air completely for three and half years unless he agreed to NBC's terms." Don't know if the 30$ buyout would affect this or not.
 
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Bill Simmons, of ESPN (and formerly a writer for Kimmel) is reporting that next week will be Conan's final week hosting the Tonight Show, and his staff is currently working to book the biggest guests they can. Including Howard Stern.

And if you're not familiar with Stern's take on the late-night scene, he hates Jay Leno with the fire of a thousand suns.

Oh my.

I dislike Stern quite strongly, but I think I may have to check that sucker out.
 
AP is reporting NBC is negotiating with Conan re: his departure so Leno can return to "Tonight."


Top NBC Universal executives and representatives for O'Brien on Friday were close to settling details of his departure, said the person, who lacked authority to discuss the issue and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Universal Studios president and COO Ron Meyer was among those involved in the talks, the person said. The focus has been on how much O'Brien, who has time left on his NBC contract, would be paid for leaving and what limits NBC may put on his future employment at another network.

The deal under discussion would provide for a settlement of more than $30 million and allow him to start a new show as early as this fall, the person said.

O'Brien has two-and-a-half years left on his contract; reports of his annual salary vary widely, from $10 million to $25 million.

NBC didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Friday night.

The progress in negotiations didn't stop O'Brien from once again hammering NBC in his "Tonight" monologue.
"In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network," O'Brien said Friday.

Other late-night hosts, including David Letterman on CBS, have been using their shows to crack jokes about NBC's late-night mess and the players. On Friday, Leno fired back.

"Even Dave Letterman is taking shots at me, which surprised me. Usually he's just taking shots at the interns," Leno said, a reference to the CBS host's admission last year that he had affairs with women who worked on his show.
 
I hope Conan busts out the Masturbating Bear for his last week.

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.
 
I hope Conan busts out the Masturbating Bear for his last week.

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.

That would be a great way to bring back Joel lol. But only if they have his shirtless asian boy-toy run out of the crowd to greet him :techman:
 
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