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Raise your glass and toast Conan and his bravado every time NBC plugs in a commercial for the post-Olympics return of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno...
JEFF ZUCKER, CEO of NBC, on the network's decision to cancel The Jay Leno Show and allow Leno to reclaim The Tonight Show from Conan O'Brien...
...final show’s numbers so extraordinary is that they’re the climax of a hot streak. In the two weeks preceding NBC’s removal of Conan from the 11:35 p.m. slot due to his disappointing ratings (and the failure of The Jay Leno Show), Conan’s average ratings were never higher. Two Fridays ago, Conan’s viewership was fifty percent larger than it had been the entire season. As the New York Times noted, “if even a small fraction of the…viewers who flocked...
...Tonight Show, The Late Show, and Saturday Night Live) have long served the role of ridiculing the public figures and news headlines. People flock to these programs not only for their silly sketches but also for their ability to verbalize the discontent of the American people through humor. Leno first overtook Letterman in the ratings when he famously asked Hugh Grant, who had been recently arrested for propositioning a prostitute, “what the hell were you thinking?” Letterman scored big with his controversial joke about Sarah Palin’s daughter...
CONAN O'BRIEN, refusing to accept NBC's plan to push back the start of The Tonight Show to accommodate a new Jay Leno show...