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 [...]
We, like most other folks we know, have been on Team Conan throughout these late-night wars, but we also admit to being on Team Letterman pretty much all the time. Honestly, we’re on any team Jay Leno isn’t on as his humor isn’t our style, and after last night, we will definitely not be watching [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Matt LeBlanc was spotted outside the restaurant Katsu-ya last night in LA. It was a rare public appearance for the Friends star, who hasn’t worked since the spin-off Joey was canceled in 2006. Not that we would have necessarily recognized him on the street—between the paunch and gray hair, LeBlanc’s starting to look a little [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In 1982, fashion enthusiast Kim Gordon‘s band Sonic Youth released their first album. Ten years later, automotive enthusiast Jay Leno replaced Johnny Carson as the host of the Tonight Show. Both entertainers were born on April 28th. Which one is older?
Some news from the “Really? Seriously??” department: Simon Cowell claims that President Obama invited him to dinner but Simon’s schedule was so darn hectic that he had to turn the Commander In Chief down. Honestly, Simon? You’ll keep Bikini Girl around for a few extra weeks but you didn’t have time for the President? Now [...]
