Seems to me that Jay Leno could be the big loser in all of this.
I thought Jimmy Kimmel’s performance last night was telling.
Except for Letterman jabbing Leno occasionally through the years, the late night guys have always seemed to get along.
Even when Letterman got into his troubles a few months ago, except for a few jokes for a couple of nights, the other guys pretty much left him alone.
When it was first announced that Leno was getting cancelled in primetime, jokes from the other guys seemed to be aimed at NBC, but more and more it seems that it’s Leno that’s taking it on the chin. (Too easy, I know.)
And the more Leno plays the victim in this, the more disingenuous he seems. It seems to the rest of us like Conan is the one getting screwed. Even more so after reading Conan’s statement which seems respectful, honest and from the heart.
I’m pro-Letterman but I’ve never been anti-Leno. All I’ve ever read or heard about Jay has been very positive, he seems to be one of the real nice guys in show business.
But even if he gets The Tonight Show back, if it looks like he got it by stepping on Conan, he’ll be starting in a hole. He dug out of a hole to start beating Letterman once, doing it a second time would be tough.
Just my opinion.
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Robert
I’ve always like Leno better than the other two. I think Conan is a good guy, though, and I haven’t had any use for Letterman in a long time. Having said that, Conan maybe the one getting screwed here, but it’s really not arguable that Leno got screwed before, when Conan got the Tonight Show.
There is really no one to blame here, except the morons that run NBC. How they have kept their jobs this long is a mystery to me!