Conan O’Brien and NBC are going to go down in history as one of those Hollywood relationships where we only remember the bad stuff, despite all the good years they had together. Unfortunately even after the Tonight Show drama, the bad stuff keeps coming. This week, O’Brien was negotiating to take part in Fox’s Idol [...]
Conan O’Brien Joins Twitter, Beats Leno In Followers
Last night our Twitter feed was abuzz with the glorious news: Conan O’Brien, heroic leader of comedy dorks everywhere, had joined Twitter. Everyone RT!!! NBC’s rejected late night host was only packing around 7000 followers last night at 8PM EST, but this morning that group has grown to 243,981 fans. The guy’s only got one [...]
Jay Leno Defends Himself On Oprah: “I Always Felt I Was Doing The Right Thing”
While admitting he told a “little white lie” by claiming he’d retire back in 2004, Jay Leno is refusing to shoulder much blame for the NBC late-night battle that left Conan O’Brien, whom he admits to not contacting throughout the drama, without a show only seven months after taking over The Tonight Show. “If [the [...]
Will Ferrell’s Wife Gives Birth Hours After Conan Finale
Conan O’Brien wasn’t the only guy itching to get out last Friday. Hours after Will Ferrell and pregnant wife Viveca Paulin tongued for the camera at O’Brien’s Tonght Show finale, Paulin gave birth to a baby boy, their third following Magnus, 5, and Mattias, 3. “All the Ferrells are well,” a rep told People. Though [...]
Conan O’Brien Makes Deal With NBC, Finished With Tonight Show On Friday
A little over a week after he declared war on NBC with an open letter refusing to be bumped to midnight, A settlement has been reached between departing Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien and NBC. As much as O’Brien must be smarting from the brevity of his tenure (only seven months!) he and his staff [...]
Jay Leno Admits He’d Take The Tonight Show Back: “This Is All Business”
With the hatorade against Jay Leno spilling onto his own show (courtesy of Jimmy Kimmel’s attack on 10 at 10), the once (and possibly future) Tonight Show host put on his serious face Friday to give his side of the NBC late night war—which may be coming to an end. A basic rundown: NBC asked [...]
Jimmy Kimmel Attacks Leno On Leno
While comedians from Rosie O’Donnell to Patton Oswalt have voiced their antipathy for Jay Leno and his apparent willingness to reclaim The Tonight Show from Conan O’Brien, the most vicious attack on the late night host came, surprisingly enough, on his own show. Former (and possible future) on-air rival Jimmy Kimmel appeared via satellite for [...]
Conan O’Brien Rejects NBC’s Offer
Conan O’Brien has rejected NBC’s offer to stay with “The Tonight Show” at a 12:05 AM time slot, following the “Jay Leno Show.” As sad as this is for comedy nerds everywhere (us, of course), we’re virtually high-fiving the redheaded host for calling NBC execs out for completely f*cking up (and over) their network, their [...]
Leno Rips NBC In Monologue, Fate Of Tonight Show Up To Conan
NBC’s 10:00pm talk show experiment appears to be coming to an end—and nobody (at the network, at least) is happy about it. Jay Leno, who got the prime-time slot after he changed his mind about retiring when Conan O’Brien took over the Tonight Show, had some rather harsh words for the network in his monologue [...]
Taylor Lautner Explains The 3 Types Of Twilight Fangirls
Taylor Lautner sat down with Conan O’Brien on The Tonight Show last night, glowing with the knowledge that New Moon made almost three times its budget in one weekend. After describing a fan riot in Brazil (“there were flexi-cuffs on the doors…[they] just went Pop! Pop! Pop!”), the underage werewolf broke down the three types [...]
