Word: carvey
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...comedy writing career -- first Saturday Night Live, now The Simpsons -- and so when SNL creator Lorne Michaels agreed to run the post-Letterman Late Night, he asked O'Brien to be his head writer- producer. They and NBC spent weeks failing to agree on a host. Dennis Miller, Dana Carvey and dozens of other comedians, all of them more famous and experienced than O'Brien, were considered and either turned down the job (Carvey) or were rejected (Miller...
...before the screen test, NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield, groping for an alternative to Late Night with Conan O'Brien, had called comedian Garry Shandling's manager (who also represents Miller, Carvey and -- this is the dicey, potential-conflict-of- interest part -- Michaels) to broach the Late Night job. According to Shandling's people, NBC was willing to pay him $5 million a year. Last Monday morning, however, Shandling, having dithered for two weeks, turned down the job, and before lunch O'Brien's agent got NBC's phone call: $1 million plus, a one-year contract, take...
...other half of NBC's problem is finding a successor to Letterman. After announcing several weeks ago that Dana Carvey was their choice for the job, NBC officials were forced to admit that the Saturday Night Live star is still undecided about whether he wants to do the show. (Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels has been named the program's producer.) Other names, from Dennis Miller to Billy Crystal, have been floated as possible Letterman successors, though one obvious candidate -- Bob Costas, host of the sprightly talk show Later with Bob Costas, which follows Letterman -- has been surprisingly absent...
...executive. "We don't know that that will work at 11:30." Money is also an argument in favor of the status quo; Leno makes just $3 million a year. (Letterman currently pulls in $6 million.) NBC, moreover, has lined up an attractive candidate to replace Letterman: Dana Carvey of Saturday Night Live...
Well, as Dana Carvey's Church Lady says, "How conveeeee-nient...