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So... how was that long vacation on Mars you just got back from?

Considering what passes for humor around the Leno show, I doubt they would have crafted anything funny or clever enough to pique Dave's interests. So this is clearly a hypothetical based on an impossible scenario.

Wait now... is it just jokes or are we all pawns? A very confusing post indeed. And I fail to see how this commercial constitutes proof of anything much less a devious chess match of which we are all the pawns. It's like you wrote the first part with a tinfoil hat on, took it off to go to the...

I forget where I read it, but the best line so far is: Conan coming back from the kitchen: (to Jay) Hey, I was sitting there!

And in fact... she is! http://www.thegrio.com/news/nbc-cook-defends-fried-chicken-choice-for-black-history-month.php

I don't see how the post was off topic or threadcrapping since it does fall under "the latest on NBC" part of the thread title. Had the menu just used the words, "Soul Food Menu" somewhere (which was their intention), none of this would have happened. It's a tempest in a teapot, but I'd love...

If he truly has dementia, he'll deny it.

Oprah routinely does not challenge guests and allows to say anything they want. For example, The Secret. Total claptrap. And yet a best seller in no small part due to the authors being allowed free reign to spout their nonsense.

Take it as you will.

Wow -- that comeback was... Leno-esque.

That's not what I see going on at all. There is plenty of blame for NBC, and there are plenty of calls for Jeff Zucker's head. There are also about 2 or 3 Conan haters who post incorrect facts and make distorted statements about the circumstances. I think 90% of the posters in this thread are...

I don't think it has anything to do with liking Jay as much as it is a mentality that roots for Goliath to defeat David. "Quaritch is right -- why don't the Na'vi just find another tree?"

NBC pushed Conan out of the guaranteed timeslot, thereby triggering a $40 million payout. How is that extortion? What leverage did Conan use to "extort" NBC? That is a bizarre and wholly inaccurate interpretation of the events. It sounds like the kind of propaganda statement you'd find in a...

The whole story, about the precious show that turned one man into an obsessed shell of his former self and his quest to get back what he feels was rightfully his from it's new owner has a certain familiar ring:

That is a totally, hilariously off the mark summary of Conan's show. No mention of Triumph? The remote pieces? The year 3000? Even though rubbing his nipples is still funnier than anything Jay does, you'd have to be really humor challenged to think Jay is even .001% as funny as Conan.

BTW, can we safely say that the idea that The Tonight Show wasn't tied to an airtime was either an NBC smokescreen or statements from people NOT in the know? I doubt NBC would have coughed up what they did if they were contractually within their rights to move TTS to 12:05.

That wasn't actually the point of the post. Your rebuttal is in response to something entirely in your head.

I guess you haven't seen the ratings then. Conan is getting more viewers at 11:35 than Jay is getting at 10pm. Handful? Hardly. ETA: throw in Kimmel and Letterman viewers, and you have a veritable army.

The reason Jay is not blameless in this is because he was supposed to ride off into the sunset in 2009. That's what he agreed to in 2004. It was because he wanted to keep working that NBC created this cockamamie Leno at 10 bullshit. "But", you say, "Jay didn't want to retire". Then goddamn...

Why is this "laugh out loud"? Leno was second the Letterman for a few years until the Hugh Grant episode. Rating can turn on a moment.

iI cannot understand how, on a forum for afficiandos of television programming, how anyone could call Conan an idiot for wanting to exhibit some personal and artistic integrity. Is it the job of someone in a creative medium to simply follow the dictates of those higher on up instead of offering...

Oh, come ON now! We're talking about NB-freakin'-C and Jeff Zucker! There are no limits!

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That sounds totally false. It's the biggest loophole in the contract, and there is no way that Conan signed for this. In fact, I distinctly remember that the contract was for the time slot and not the show title. Otherwise, they could have kept Jay at 11:35 and renamed "Late Night" to "The...

NBC kowtowed to Jay when he started making noise that he wanted to stay. Why would anyone think they actually drove Jay out in 2004? It was Jay's decision to make, and he made it. Then he changed his mind. I think that's all pretty obvious. Look, if he's that honorable, he'd lick his wounds...

Here's a Sept 2004 quote from Jay Leno:

What, pray tell, are the affiliates going to show in the 10pm hour if they drop Leno? Besides which, some of these affiliates make 40% of their revenues from the local news, so NBC totally screwed them to Friday and back by putting on a show they knew would attract a minimum of viewers. They...

If NBC were smart, they'd dump Leno and keep Conan since that will cause the least damage at this point. If Leno leaves to ABC, Conan would probably retain most of viewers as they're in a younger demo and Leno and Letterman would be fighting it out over a grayer demo. But a bolting Conan...

It was Conan who wanted to move to 11:30. His contract was coming up, and NBC didn't want to lose him. They had an agreement with Jay and Conan that Jay would leave the Tonight Show in 2009 and Conan would take over. However, as the date approached, Jay started making it known that he didn't...

Again, the affiliate problem would have been ignored as it had been since Leno premiered if it weren't for the Comcast wrinkle. The impending merger is "why" NBC finally took action. They need the affilites on their side if they want the merger to go through.