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Very well said. Jay Leno is loved by his guests because he's a softball interview, he never puts anyone on the spot the way Letterman does...but everyone in the business knows what a bastard Leno can be and how totally insecure he is. On her blog, Rosie O'Donnell stated the following:

Branden Tartikoff

came back stage

asked me to do fridays for leno

like joan did

leno was on

having taken over from johnny

ratings were not good

at first

a bus

a glorious beautiful amazing american bus

we all have been on it

only one gets to drive it

steve allen

jack parr

johnny carson

jay leno

conan obrein

5 years ago

they told - promised

twenty ten

u r in

money heartless

addicting

business is business

its not personal

well it is

we just watched leno bully his was back into college

so he could be quaterback

still - again

maybe for the first time

tonya hardings beau used a bat

i respect him more

So it's plain to see that Leno has been at this sort of behaviour for a long time. He wouldn't let Rosie be a guest host and he was furious that Conan took over for him. It's odd, the Tonight Show is such a beloved program, yet it has such a tempestuous history. First, Johnny Carson vs Joan Rivers (Team Joan) and now Leno vs O'Brien (Team O'Brien)

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We've got Tonight? Not after Jan. 22.

Conan O'Brien's last night as host of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien will likely be next Friday, a source close to O'Brien tells PEOPLE.

"Conan does not currently plan on doing any more new shows after next week,” says the source. NBC declined comment.

On Tuesday, the host released a statement saying that he would not go along with NBC's plan for him to host a relocated Tonight Show at 12:05 a.m., following The Jay Leno Show at 11:35 p.m.

"I cannot participate in what I honestly believe is [The Tonight Show's] destruction," said O'Brien.

If Jan. 22 is indeed O'Brien's final broadcast, the show will have ended two weeks before NBC’s scheduled preemption for its 2010 Winter Olympics coverage.

http://www.people.com/people/article...336890,00.html

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Really, Rosie? Ummm....that was a real crime.

Leno had a right to be furious, he was pushed out when he was #1. If I was Leno, I would've been mad too. In this situation, I think Leno gets too much blame. He wasn't the one who demanded to go back to late night.

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I guess I am sick of NBC getting a pass for their stupid decisions, and I'm sick of smug Leno, who always panders to the lowest common denominator, getting to move all over the NBC schedule. I don't watch a lot of late night talk in general but when I have seen Leno's show there's often such a mean-spirited undertone to his "regular guy" act. He just repulses me.

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I agree Toups.

An article I saw:

Sources close to former 'Tonight Show' host Jay Leno tell me he is furious with the way NBC has treated him and Conan O'Brien and is considering walking away from the entire mess with his head held high. "Now that Conan has made it clear he is leaving the troubled network, Jay is considering doing the same. They have put Jay in a terrible position. It looks like he is the reason that Conan is now without a job. Jay is a great guy and it's not fair that due to NBC's stupidity he looks like the bad guy," a TV insider tells me.

"Plus, what happens when Jay does return to the 11:35 slot if his audience doesn't immediately follow? How can he possibly trust the same network that canceled Conan after only seven months?"

Check out the ethos on Jay! Good for him for sticking up for the guy he essentially got shoved out. And remember, if this mess continues and Jerry Seinfeld winds up on NBC yo heard it here first...

http://www.popeater....no-leaving-nbc/

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You know Jay Big Jaw Leno won't. He has no shame, no class whatsoever. He's a greedy, self-serving, SMUG animal. He probably planted that story in the media just like he and his shrewd business manager planted that story about Carson wanting to retire. I will be surprised if, after the first week, Jay recovers. He's left NBC in shambles after his 10PM fiasco.

According to TWoP, he made a "joke" in his Monologue about the recent ratings spike on Conan's Tonight Show. He said, "You're welcome."

What the hell is his f!cking problem?! How the hell will anyone want to watch him after the way he screwed Conan O'Brien over and is practically laughing about it on the air to his retirement home audience?!

Here are snippets of Conan's monologue, which will be airing shortly:

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/conan-obriens-barbs-keep-coming/

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