NBC/Leno Keep Erasing All Trace Of Conan

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• That cad!

  How is Palin a good get? She says outrageous things, but generally only bores and depresses me when I hear her speak. She’s a ninny. Takes offense to many jokes and lets others slide for expediency. Don’t know that I’ve ever seen her actually laugh. Curious.

  Comment by Scott — Monday March 1, 2010 @ 10:00pm PST  Reply to this post

• Oh, this is priceless. For god’s sake, it was less than a year ago, you’d think someone would’ve noticed.

  Then again, I’m pretty sure no one at NBC actually watches The Tonight Show. (And with Leno back, can you really blame them for that? *YAWN*)

  Comment by Bill — Monday March 1, 2010 @ 10:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• Strangely enough…there is a framed poster of “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien” in the lobby @ the Burbank Lot.

  Comment by (was at taping today) — Monday March 1, 2010 @ 10:55pm PST  Reply to this post

• Saying it that way, he sure IS wrong — although he may have meant, as an interview subject, since she was really just doing a cameo appearance that time. And, as many consider Saturday Night Live to be a “late night show” as well (note the missing word “talk”) — that includes yet another late night appearance for her there, too.

  Comment by Raaawb — Monday March 1, 2010 @ 11:26pm PST  Reply to this post

• Did you expect NBC to keep Conan in the public’s eye? And let’s please set the record straight: ay Leno does NOT dictate NBC programming policy and never has, so the whole Leno/Conan debacle is NOT leno’s fault. It’s the fault of those executive suits at NBC that thought Conan could keep the ratings Leno had and Jay could work in prime-time.

  We know now, neither happened. Conan NEVER beat Letterman, and his audience was half of what The Tonight Show had when Leno was host. How long did you think NBC was going to let that continue? With revenues from their late-night franchises declining, it didn’t take a genius to see NBC was going to do something right quick.

  It was NOT Leno’s decision to hand the Tonight Show over to Conan, and it was NOT his idea to move to 10 pm. It was all concocted by NBC programming suits.

  Comment by Steve Meyer — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 2:33am PST  Reply to this post

• Since the late night debacle started, I love how people are all of a sudden so interested in Conan O’Brien. Nobody could give a crap about him before NBC decided to replace him, hence his low Tonight Show ratings. Now, Conan is the “hip” thing. So, we have the media, yet again, trying to stir something up out of nothing. Trying, yet again, to support Conan and not Leno. Palin was on Conan, but not as a sit down guest, which is what she will be on Leno. Why, why, why must the media, which includes you Finke, try to stir something up out of nothing?

  Comment by Leno Fan — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 3:42am PST  Reply to this post

• He meant as a guest! How hard is that to figure out? she was a bit part of a bit part with Shatner. She was not a guest. Does everyone go to the TMZ/The Star school of headline hype?

  Comment by Zmster — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 4:37am PST  Reply to this post

• Anyone who actually saw Coco’s version of The Tonight Show would have to agree that it was not a show.

  Comment by Hailey — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 4:48am PST  Reply to this post

• In Jay’s defense, it’s not ENTIRELY his fault for saying something incorrectly. It’s NBC’s fault. No wait, it’s the affilliates’ fault. No no, it’s Nielsen’s fault. But not Jay’s. He was just saying what he was told. According to him, everyone else BUT him has control of what he says/does, so how can you blame him – the self-proclaimed puppet?

  Comment by njames — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 7:26am PST  Reply to this post

• Typical. Leno’s so pathologically self-centered that he doesn’t care, though. Palin’s appearance with William Shatner in TScCOB was really funny and was replayed everywhere in the media. No way this is an accident.

  Comment by elgin — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 9:00am PST  Reply to this post

• They should he stole 35 million dollars from them, who failed at a job and still expects a BONUS or should we call it extortion to leave, so Jay could rescue The Tonight Show.

  Comment by MarkHill — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 9:15am PST  Reply to this post

• She should have wrote that info on her paw.

  Comment by CTSadler — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 9:20am PST  Reply to this post

• Conan? Who was he, some sort of a stand-up guy or something??

  Comment by Smarg — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 9:30am PST  Reply to this post

• No, NBC taking Conan offline is one thing, but I don’t think there was any ulterior motive behind last night’s comment. Jay was simply pointing out that she has never agreed to be interviewed by her harshest critics- late night tv hosts.

  It actually took me a minute to remember which previous appearance you were referring to. I had forgotten all about her brief walk-on during Conan’s monologue. I’m sure most people probably have.

  Comment by bree — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 10:19am PST  Reply to this post

• It’s sad that NBC doesn’t fully respect its own history…

  Comment by Kireet — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 11:45am PST  Reply to this post

• man another reason to hate this dumbass …. Conan where are you?!

  Comment by jadakiss — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 12:44pm PST  Reply to this post

• You know what he meant. Don’t be disingenuous.

  Comment by Randall — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 2:05pm PST  Reply to this post

• Can we erase all evidence of Jeff Zucker ever being head of NBCUni?????

  Comment by 9ign — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 6:54pm PST  Reply to this post

• If Leno is so much better.

  Then why can’t they let Conan’s work stay on the internet?

  It seems like it could justify their decision. See look, Conan does physical, self-depreciating comedy…..that is so last century.

  While Jay makes fun of stupid people and sits behind his desk like a pro.

  Comment by Zucker is a tool — Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 11:17pm PST  Reply to this post