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Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien and NBC are expected to reach an agreement of some kind soon. O'Brien rejected an offer last week from NBC to host The Tonight Show in a later time slot after the network announced they would be moving The Jay Leno Show back to late night.Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien and NBC are expected to reach an agreement of... more
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The host Conan O'Brien put The Tonight Show on craiglist, in a comedy segment that's related to the dispute with NBC and Leno. The listing reads:
"This is a chance of a lifetime to own your very own late night talk show--guaranteed to last for up to seven months!! Really must see to appreciate.
Information for potential buyers:
- Measures 100’ x 100’ x 32’ – plenty of room for a futon!
- Designed for 11:35 but can be easily moved
- Band can be sold separately
- Buyer must honor Barry Manilow booking next Thursday
MAKE ME YOUR BEST OFFER!!!!! (Also willing to trade for Coldplay tickets.)"- From http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/clt/1551463643.html
Since a replacement for Ross hasn't been found yet, the BBC could auction off the Friday Night slot on eBay.The host Conan O'Brien put The Tonight Show on craiglist, in a comedy segment... more
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The current late-night debacle isn't the fault of Conan or Leno. It's the fault of bad parenting
BY HEATHER HAVRILESKY
NBC's first New Year's Resolution: Screw things up but good, then say you didn't. What else can explain the talk, halfway through Jay Leno's disastrous first season filling the nightly 10 p.m. slot, about giving Leno back his 11:30 p.m. slot, and booting Conan O'Brien to midnight (where he'll keep the "Late Night" moniker)?
Meanwhile NBC issued an announcement that they "remain committed" to keeping Conan, while the network has spent months pretending that Leno's failed experiment at 10, with ratings lower than almost everything else on TV at that hour, has been a real success.
You know those parents who put their kid on a leash and, while they're bragging about how well it works in a crowd, they yank the leash to make the kid come and instead the kid falls down and cries? You know how those parents try to explain how it really does work while they comfort their kid, then the kid runs away, reaches the end of the leash, falls down again? You know how witnessing the whole thing makes you back away slowly, smiling, but deep inside you feel a little bit depressed?
That's sort of how the world feels about NBC, Leno and Conan right now. NBC is the idiot parents. Conan is the poor kid. Leno? The leash.
It goes without saying that it's not the leash's fault that it's made for dogs, not children. Even so, when the leash gets strapped to little Johnny, that makes the leash look bad, as if it's the leash's idea to treat a kid like a dog.
No one enjoys hating Jay Leno. Don't blame the leash. It's the parents who are the real dummies in this picture. NBC has mismanaged this situation from the very start: Giving Leno the 10 p.m. slot every single night was a terrible idea, widely proclaimed so. Not only did NBC sally forth, but they tolerated how awful the show turned out to be, even for Leno. They allowed his terrible show on the air. Not surprisingly, most people hated it, even many loyal Leno fans. Few tuned in. But through it all, what did NBC do? They arrogantly proclaimed that they didn't need the DVR crowd, and added that Leno didn't need to get good ratings to be a smashing success because the show was dirt cheap to produce.
People, please. Stay behind the damn curtain. Audiences don't want to know your terrible money-saving plans any more than random people on the street want to witness the really dumb parenting shortcuts employed by lazy parents.The current late-night debacle isn't the fault of Conan or Leno. It's the... more
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William Shatner appeared on the "Tonight Show" again last night, making Sarah Palin's oft-nutty tweets in poetry. Shatner had graced Conan's stage on Monday, reading Sarah's resignation speech in his typical Shatner way, with all the lilting and soft drum beats we've come to expect. The segment proved so popular that O'Brien invited him back to interpret the ex-governor's confusing Twitter messages for his audience.William Shatner appeared on the "Tonight Show" again last night, making... more
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Rachel Maddow appeared on the "Tonight Show" Wednesday night, where she revealed that Barack Obama is a fan of her fashion sense.
During their interview last fall, Obama "broke the ice by complimenting my pants," Maddow told Conan. "They're my Obama pants!"
Maddow also poked fun at Obama's beer date with Professor Henry Louis Gates and Sergeant James Crowley — "I don't know whether it's going to be a longneck or a can," the cocktail aficionado told Conan — and explained why she recently copied Sarah Palin by wearing rubber waders on the air.Rachel Maddow appeared on the "Tonight Show" Wednesday night, where she... more
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The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Palin's final speech was a thing of poetic beauty. And who does poetry better than Shatner?The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Palin's final speech was a thing of... more
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