<p>totally agree. It’s like watching a disaster in process.</p>
<p>jimmy kimmel as jay leno was the best jay leno show i’ve ever watched. jimmy kimmel as jimmy kimmel is not so funny! i find jay absolutely horrible to listen to. not an original joke in his show–headlines as comedy? that people send in to him? that’s his best known “gig” and it’s not that original.</p>
<p>conan targets a younger market–my kids love him. i totally thought he was horrible until i watched him on inside the actor’s studio or whatever that show is called, and i came to respect him a bit after that.</p>
<p>the whole thing is a train wreck…leno at prime time killed the nbc late night line up–not conan…</p>
<p>I thought it was hysterical. I can’t believe he stayed in character the entire time. He had all the mannerisms, under the breath comments, awkwardness down pat. I think Jimmy is hysterical as Jimmy but I know his humor doesn’t appeal to everyone. I still smile every time I hear him apologize to Matt Damon at the end of the show.</p>
<p>Reportedly Letterman usually had better ratings that Leno’s Tonight Show, but NBC was nevertheless happy because Leno’s salary is substantially less than Letterman’s, allegedly.</p>
<p>Like cartera said Leno should have retired. I like Conan and my son loves his sense of humor. But put on some old Johnny Carson reruns (Rickles, Deano, Phyllis Diller, the animal trainer, George Gobel etc.) and I’d watch them.</p>
<p>“Red Eye” kicks all their overpaid butts</p>
<p>^ “Red Eye” is the one that I watch sometime, other late talking shows seems to be very slow and boring.
But my preference is Discovery Health or History or staff like “Say yes to the Dress” or “What not to wear”, if they are not repeats.</p>
<p>What is “Red Eye”?</p>
<p>“Red Eye” is talk show very late on FoxNews. They do not say anything new, they just say it in funny way.</p>
<p>Yes, bring back George Gobel and his stories about his wife Alice, and bring back Karnak the Magnificent and I might be tempted to stay up past 11PM. LOL.</p>
<p>Here’s some info on Red Eye: [Red</a> Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Eye_w/_Greg_Gutfeld]Red”>Red Eye (talk show) - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>News reports airing this morning state that NBC is working on a buy-out deal with O’Brien. No surprise there. But if I were Leno, I wouldn’t put much stock into a contract with the present NBC network management. O’Brien has been in the NBC stable for years and look how they’ve treated him. What’s to stop them from dumping Leno in 12 months.?</p>
<p>^^^^ his contract is much more expensive to get out of.</p>
<p>Leno - the Brett Favre of television. I think he’ll lose a lot of his following from all of this and many will even boycott him and he’ll retire again. Then they can bring in Joel McHale.</p>
<p>I don’t see any lasting effect on Leno, nor do I think this has that much to do with him. He was The Tonight Show host and NBC pushed him out the door. He said bluntly at the time that he didn’t want to the leave the job. Why should he? Carson was allowed to retire and Jack Paar before that quit on his own. Leno caught Letterman after 2 years of competition and has been in the ratings lead since 1995. </p>
<p>NBC gave Leno the 10PM show because they didn’t want him to go to Fox or ABC and because they thought they’d lose Conan if they kept Leno. They tried to have their cake and eat it too. Now they’ve decided that Leno is more valuable to them. Well duh. He’s won the ratings for nearly 15 years. They obviously should have told Conan he’d have to leave.</p>
<p>The sad thing is that NBC is trying to say Conan failed. They are mendacious or worse. The ratings falloff caused by their decision to put Leno on has hurt Conan but, more importantly, they gave Leno years to catch up. Remember that Leno was on the air a year before Letterman started at 11:30 and then Letterman smoked him until Jay changed his show. Now NBC wants Conan to imitate Jay? I can’t believe that. A show like this takes a while to find its feet but then it lasts for 15-20 years with little expense beyond the salaries to the talent.</p>
<p>Lergnom - According to your post, I am mistaken in my belief that Jay had a planned retirement then. Several years ago, when it was decided that Leno would hand the reins over to Conan, I thought it was his decision to leave.</p>
<p>haven’t caught up on this thread in a couple of days, but, there was a story I read somewhere yesterday that NBC really could have made all of this work by putting Jimmy Fallon on at 11:30, not Conan…he has more appeal to the youngins’ with his excellent connection on social media websites, as well as his array of guests/skits etc…</p>
<p>the funniest thing I happened to see this week was a promo for SNL where Sigourney Weaver is talking and Bill Hader rushes up behind her and says something to the effect “hurry up: let’s get out of here; NBC wants to move us back to a 2:00am timeslot”…</p>
<p>Personally, I can’t stand Leno or Conan…and I too will stay up til 11:30 when Karnak returns…(um, so never…)</p>
<p>another idea: make SNL News update nightly at 11:30…now we’re talking…</p>
<p>The hosts’ desks will be on the left or right depending on which side of the hosts’ faces are their “good” sides, I would think.</p>
<p>I don’t either like Leon or O’Brien. I am pretty surprised that either one still even had an audience.</p>
<p>I feel bad for Conan. 
He was one of my favorite talk show hosts. I think the reason a lot of people feel animosity towards Leno is the fact that he is acting as if NBC screwed him over as well. He is getting his old job back and a great time slot, but the way he is approaching this situation is like he understands how Conan feels and feels screwed by NBC too. I believe that is what is infuriating a lot of Conan fans or making people switch to Team Conan. I don’t know if this is right, but I thought Jay wanted the switch?</p>
<p>BTW Jimmy Kimmel totally destroyed Leno when Leno interviewed him via satellite the night after Kimmel impersonated Leno. Haha. Check YT if you haven’t seen it.</p>