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Last night on The Jay Leno Show, Jay gave his side of the Tonight Show takeover in terms that were his most direct yet.
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The bit where he gave a pained sigh before deciding, “Yeah, I’ll take the show back”? [About 3:30 in.] Don’t think it was meant to be a laugh line.
In a nutshell: NBC …
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Because it’s been making the rounds, here’s an unusual Funny or Die clip. It’s not “funny because it’s true,” it’s just, well, true. It’s simply a verbatim Jay Leno talk, from 2004, on how he didn’t want an ugly fight over the Tonight Show, would graciously hand over the desk to Conan in 2009, and did not want to try keeping the show …
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According to The New York Times, the struggling new host of NBC’s Tonight Show feels disappointed and betrayed that the network is considering dumping him, after less than a year, for a replacement. Admittedly he got off to a rough start, but things are going smoothly now, he says, and he deserves more time.
Speaking to a reporter, he …
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The other day, I suggested that, since Jimmy Kimmel agreed to do the “10 at 10” segment on last night’s Jay Leno Show, he must not actually have much bad feeling towards Leno, despite his brutal hourlong imitation of the chinny host earlier this week.
I may have been mistaken.
Kimmel started the segment gamely, but halfway through …
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My print TIME column this week, it should surprise no one, is also about the Jaypocalypse at NBC. Since it needed to close on deadline—and who knew who was going to be working where by the time it came off the presses—I used the column to big-picture the issue.
Namely: NBC’s problem is pretty much the problem of newspapers, or …
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This morning, courtesy of the home office in Wahoo, Nebraska:
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Two thoughts:
1. It must feel good for Dave to vent nearly two decades’ worth of pent-up Jay bashing. See also his monologue last night. (“Jimmy Kimmel was so convincing as Leno that today NBC canceled him.”)
2. Jeff …
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David Letterman has been killing it the past few nights when it comes to the Jaypocalypse, in which he has a long-standing personal investment. But the most audacious and outrageously funny late-night take on the situation yet belongs to Jimmy Kimmel, who did his entire show last night as Jay Leno. See it here in its entirety:
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In all the NBC late-night drama, I’ve made a point of not treating Jay Leno as the bad guy. I was not a fan of The Jay Leno Show nor of his Tonight Show, but a lot of other people were, and he did a good job making a show that they loved. He didn’t ask to get bumped off the Tonight Show, nor can I blame him for wanting it back.
That …
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Let me take off my TV-critic hat for a minute and put on my TV-business hat. Everyone’s assumption now—a well-founded one, it seems—is that, forced to choose between Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien, NBC will pick Jay. Leaving aside fairness, funniness or cosmic justice, is that the right business pick?
Short-term, I have to say: …
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The guy who’s having the best time with the Jaypocalypse and NBC’s Conanundrum? David Letterman. For now, anyway. Here’s a preview of his hit tonight (since I’m sure you’ll be watching to see what Conan has to say). The title gives away the punch line, but it’s funny anyway:
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I kind of don’t want to do a “Ooooh, look at the late-night hosts ripping on NBC!” post. I mean, late-night comedians making jokes about their own (or other) networks stopped being daring, what, 25 years ago? Was it even daring then?
That said: Ooooh, look at Conan ripping on NBC!
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Presenting its midseason programming to TV reporters and critics in Pasadena this weekend, NBC made official its not-exactly a secret: after Feb. 11, The Jay Leno Show will be no more, at least at 10 p.m. NBC executives said that while Leno’s show was making money for the network (by lowering its costs even though it lowered the …
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One last Jaypocalypse post (I think) for the day: James Hibberd is quoting “a well-placed Fox source” as saying that Fox would be interested in (a presumably-ticked-off-at-NBC) Conan O’Brien, should he become available. Reportedly Conan has not yet agreed—pointedly—to a deal to push his Tonight show back to midnight to make room for …
