A video from 2004...
Jeepers, I'm not really sure WHY I am even posting this. Maybe just to illustrate that folks can have second thoughts and junk...and that what they believed to be the right, and true thing to do at the time can become...well, maybe not so much later on.
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Well, not to defend Leno, but he actually did exactly what he said he would do here, didn't he?
ReplyDeleteIf Conan were #1 and wasn't getting has ass regularly clobbered by a confessed sexual predator and verbal abuser of teenage daughters of political figures, then I'm pretty sure the whole reset thing would have never happened.
I don't know what happened here, maybe Jay sabotaged Conan and stole his show back, but I don't have any reason to think it's anything other than exactly what it seems on the surface, Johnny and Jay kept the Tonight Show #1 for, literally, generations, and Conan lost that in less than a year.
Ratings have consequences.
Oh yeah Cosmic, I don't think there is anything sinister in this deal. Leno could no more manipulate the "after the news" ratings to fall than he could the prime time ratings to increase.
ReplyDeleteI'm getting at how certain Leno (and I'm assuming NBC) was that Conan was "the man" to continue the streak.
Now, if Leno doesn't get them back up...definitely gonna be some head-scratching.