Conan O'Brien announces microfracture surgery to stop NBC from moving his time slot

Leno should check into a sex rehab clinic to get his street cred back.

 

If it keeps him off TV, I'm for it.

 

the last one was so over the top unbelievable on purpose. thus, why he made fun of people that actually believed it was real in the first place.

 

I loved it.

"He ruined an original Picasso!? DEAR INTERNET..."

 

Its amazing to me how some people cannot understand humor.

 

I don't think the stuff he bought was expensive. My understanding was more about the the rights to the music he used.

 

I disagree. He has lost that persona with Conan fans - but Conan fans never liked Leno anyway. Different style of humor, different demographics, etc. At the end of the day, I suspect Leno's viewership will be fairly close to the same as it always was. Some people will drop him out of this whole mess; he'll attract others who never paid attention until now.

Nonsense. NBC did that - not Leno. At the end of the day, people will watch him if they think he's funny and/or has interesting guests. They don't if they don't like his show.

News Anchors, absolutely. Brands, for the most part. Late-night comedy? Not at all.

But the people that detest him aren't the people that were watching him in the first place. People have an extremely short attention span. In a month or whenever the show goes back on the air, most of this hoopla will be long forgotten. I think people overestimate how much the public really cares about this kind of stuff. It makes for exciting drama so everyone pays attention, but once the drama is over, it will all be forgotten. The number of people that actually deeply care about the end result is pretty small.

 

The real damage is long-term.

In the short run, Jay's show will do fine and NBC will get exactly what it wanted.

3-5 years from now, NBC will regret this decision, badly.

 

I'd also point out that using his show to trash his employer (that's giving him a $45MM severance) for a few weeks is not, by any definition, taking the high road. Understandable since he was angry and felt wronged, and I don't blame him for using the pulpit he has to express his thoughts. But it's not the definition of classy at all. It's just another example of everyone involved doing what's in their own best interests.

 

Things can change 3-5 years from now. I doubt Jay will willingly give up his seat by then.

He brought in great ratings.

 

that's late night television for you. every single host on every network used their show to trash NBC in the last few weeks, including Leno.

just like when Letterman got the shaft from NBC, and guys like Howard Stern alike...

and on a night when NBC gave Conan O'Brien carte blanche to say whatever he wanted, he gave his employer nothing but praise and gratitude...

 

are you that dense? he's a comedian, are you really saying it was bad for him to not make light of the situation? do you not realize that those same jokes "trashing" his employer probably drew them way more viewers than had he done a normal show? did you watch the show enough to realize he has made jokes bashing NBC for several years? did you watch the tonight show with leno enough to realize that he too made tons of jokes ragging NBC for the past several years?

are you really that dense?

 

It was not a dino, it was an extinct ground sloth.




Humans killed them off a long time ago. :grin:

 

Everyone makes jokes about their own network. Leno, Conan, SNL have done it since long ago, Letterman does it about CBS, etc. To suddenly stop making jokes about NBC now, of all times, would come off very fake and insincere.

 

I dream of the Bugatti Veyron Mouse -- he brings me golden cheese.

 

Both scenarios. It happened.


Some of you would defend Conan regardless of fact. It's obvious.

The villain in all of this is ZUCKER, btw.

 

I think you are wrong about this. I'm sure there were millions of people who watched and enjoyed both Leno and Conan. Next September they will have the option to watch Conan instead of Leno. This will surely cut into the ratings of the Tonight Show as the pie gets cut into more pieces. I believe next September the ratings for the Tonight show will be at a record low.

 

It just wasn't the direction I thought the gag would be going in is all. I would have liked to see him keep it mildly believable until the very end..make people, including NBC, crap their parents thinking it's all real.

 

you'd have to be borderline mentally handicapped to believe it was real in the first place. and, uh, don't you think NBC would know whether it was real or not, considering it was supposedly their money?

 

Leno consistently beat Letterman but there were nights, Leno got beat. Conan got beat by Ferguson for just one week when Conan was still on Late Night. He also only got beat for one day on the Tonight Show by Ferguson when Ferguson followed Letterman's Obama (as President) interview. Just like how Jimmy Fallon beat Letterman yesterday after Conan's finale. Ferguson never consistently beat Conan.