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...NBC promised O’Brien that in five years he’d be hosting The Tonight Show. O’Brien indeed ascended to the post in 2009, but after seven months NBC gave the show back to Jay Leno when O’Brien declined to accept a later time slot, a move he felt would have betrayed the show’s integrity...
Reiff said the way O’Brien prioritized his staff in his NBC negotiations was completely in line with his character, just as he paid his staff out of his own pocket during the 2008 writer’s strike...
...He’s a keeper—I was shocked they didn’t want to keep him and build a long-term franchise around him,” Reiff said of the NBC executives. “But the way he handled it shows his character. His audience has loved his humor for a long time, but the battle with NBC gave them a glimpse of his character. That’s why they have rallied around him the way they have...
Conan C. O’Brien '85 is a comedian and TV host who recently emerged from the NBC kerfluffle with the prospect of hosting a late-night show on TBS starting this fall. Oh, and he was also president of a certain semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...video, NBC misidentifies Justin T. Keenan '10 as "Austin Keenan...