Conan O'Brien is SHREDDING Jay Leno & NBC in his monologue tonight! He is hilarious!

[Vinnie From Indy]

He began his show by looking into the camera with a solemn look and said that being on the tonight show fulfilled a childhood dream. He then said that he wanted all kids watching the show to know that if they work really, really hard and give it their all someday they could achieve their dream too.

Then he said after a pause, "Unless Jay Leno wants it's too".

He followed this with some other funny stuff about NBC executives and had s kit with Kenneth the Page from 30 Rock making fun of NBC executives.

I wonder how how this monologue is going over in the executive offices at NBC. LOL! Funny Stuff! Go Conan! Go Conan! Go Conan!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

1. Did you see Letterman's "Law and Order: Leno Victim Unit"?

I love that Conan stopped holding back. The last few days have been a lot more like his 11:35 show.

[Raschel]

5. Letterman skewered Jay and NBC president tonight.

He even brought up how Jay hid in the closet during the Letterman/Leno Tonight Show grab.

You're right he doesn't hold back. He says just about whatever he wants to say, about Leno, NBC McCain, Palin.

I LOVE HIM!

[Lugnut]

9. Letterman was brutal.

He's really enjoying this disaster and I'm enjoying it with him.

[hfojvt]

12. I always thought his 11:35 show was a train wreck

He has seemed funnier at the Tonight Show, but I still hardly ever watch it.

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[laughingliberal]

20. I saw the Leno Victim's Unit. That was great! Letterman's my favorite, anyway. nt

[freeplessinseattle]

2. ouch! I love that he's not holding back

and Jay's carefully cultivated image is being exposed for the snake he is. His perpetual need for ego stroking is finally biting him in the ass, and now he will forever be perceived differently. Even if he retired now he knows his rep in Tinseltown is tainted and his wife loves the charity parties.

I never found Conan all that funny but maybe more genuine in some ways, and just feel for him getting shafted like this.

[Common Sense Party]

6. Conan isn't hampered by having his one and only schtick be sex jokes.

Leno couldn't tell anything else. And his timing was horrible.

Conan's downside is that he's kind of stiff in some of his interviews, but he's still funnier than Leno ever was and as funny as Letterman used to be.

[Common Sense Party]

3. I liked last night, where Conan said that as a kid, he used to watch

Johnny Carson all the time, and that his dream was that, some day, he would get the opportunity to be the host of the Tonight Show...for seven months.

[flvegan]

4. Dave is too.

[Initech]

7. Monday was awesome when he presented a list of shows they should show instead of Leno.

:rofl:

[lpbk2713]

8. Meanwhile Leno is telling Clinton BJ joke #7,812.

I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me.

[Blue_Tires]

17. and O.J. Simpson joke #1,865,040

[Jennicut]

10. Conan is very funny when he gets really sarcastic. And Leno and NBC totally deserve it.

[pokerfan]

11. I liked the bit about NBC's upcoming coverage of the Winter Olympics

suggesting that NBC would make changes like:

1. Move the Winter Olympics to summer but still call them the Winter Olympics.

2. Reserve the right to cancel ski-jumps in mid jump.

3. Replace the flags on the giant slalom course with breached NBC contracts.

4. Move the bronze up to gold’s place, silver stays where it is and add a new medal for fourth place called 'The NBC.'

[davidpdx]

13. Hope someone gets this on Youtube

The clips of Letterman were just so hilarous yesterday. I loved how Letterman even saw fit to poke at himself (the part about Conan coming to CBS to steal his job).

[Morning Dew]

14. My pick would be for Conan to keep the Tonight Show.

I like Conan a lot. I recognize that he's an acquired taste but it's well worth it to sit through it 'til you "get" him.

He's a funny, funny guy.


Other than Headlines, and Ross the Intern segments, Leno wasn't that interesting to me anymore.

[grantcart]

15. Can anyone say "Classic Coke"

Leno is going to bomb big time.

I never watch these guys but O'Brien is turning into a cause celbre.

[Hardrada]

16. TV hasn't been this in-your-face brutal since Arthur Godfrey

fired Julius La Rosa! I remember that!

[monmouth]

18. OMG, me too. Are we old or what??? LOL...n/t

[Hardrada]

19. I was home from grade school sick now and then for a few days at a time.

That's how I got to watch that Godfrey event and MUCH commentary about it. And also I got to watch LIVE the Army-McCarthy Hearings. There were giants in those days.

How could I forget Carmel Quinn, Haleloke and "all the little Godfreys?"

[monmouth]

21. I remember all of that so well. I also watched the McCarthy hearings

on my grandfather's Dumont...My teachers were quite impressed that fall when I mentioned the name Keefauver (sp?).. I guess were talking early '50s???

[Hardrada]

22. Yes, 1954. We had a Dumont too. My Uncle Bert sold them

in his radio & tv biz just a block and a half away. I was living with my grandparents and they were old time New Dealers and were delighted to see Joe McCarthy be humiliated! I was in fourth grade but was an avid reader and was aware of some of the issues involved. As to the Godfrey incident, my grandmother was sad about it and bought a record of some La Rosa songs by way of protest. I wonder what happened to that!

[monmouth]

23. That incident with Julius LaRosa was the best thing that could have

happened to his career and was the downfall of Godfrey. Julius must be in his late 70s early 80s by now. Great voice, your grandmother had great taste.

[Hardrada]

25. She did! I checked google and Mr La Rosa is still with us.

That's good to know. I know Godfrey later on admitted he had not handled that well and was apologetic and his show on radio lasted for many more years. He just wasn't really a TV presence after that. I think AG was best on radio anyway. I grew to age 10 mainly as a fan of radio and also 78 rpm records and library books. I've lost track of how many "great technological revolutions" I've lived through!

[monmouth]

26. Haha, mee too. I loved radio, used to listen to the soaps with my

grandmother and relished 78s that were handed down to me. All the technological revolutions we've lived through, I'd say TV was the most dangerous in the end. My father waited and waited to buy one because he thought it was a "passing fad."...LOL.

[Hardrada]

27. I think it was around 1953 that was the last year I heard

a lot of my favorite radio shows for the last time. And some of them just stopped and never made the transition to TV. But I was still listening to radio shows like X-1 and The Bob and Ray Show until the end of the Fifties. Those guys were a hoot but didn't try to make the transition but just stayed where they were. O alas all that is gone EXCEPT that it seems lots of the old shows were taped (complete with cigarette commercials) or otherwise preserved so some of the old time remains.

[monmouth]

28. Go to the following site and pick out the shows you liked...

www.live365.com. At the top you will see various years. I click on '40s and listen to all the old crime shows. Other offerings are Jack Benny, Henry Aldrick, Our Miss Brooks, etc. The big bands are another favorite of mine. Eventually I paid to be a VIP because I love WarTime Homefront Radio. Enjoy!

[Hardrada]

29. Thanks! I will do so.

[Bucky]

24. As long as he brings in bigger ratings, they won't mind.

Sadly, had he brought in bigger ratings earlier on, he wouldn't have all this material to work with.