Conan O’Brien Says He Won’t Do ‘Tonight Show’ Following Leno

NY Times ^ | Jan 12, 2010 | Bill Carter

[Mr. Blonde]

I hate that NBC has an excellent show, Friday Night Lights, that they have put in ratings purgatory continually, but continue to produce with DirecTV, but instead of giving it a prime spot to let it thrive, they brought in Leno. Bastards.

[DoughtyOne]

Good night George...

[Niteflyr]

I liked Conan, but I am probably not as old and as uptight as some others.

I like Conan and I'm old...maybe it's the "uptight" part...or maybe no sense of humor...hmmmm

[Niteflyr]

the tonite show has an older audience (for the most part)

As in "old...stoic...and no longer possessing a sense of humor"..and probably longing for the return of Jack Paar...

[norraad]

Part of what made the conam humor work was that he was on so late and the cheap set in NY.

It doesn't translate to uber budget smaltzy wst coast.

[Plummz]

Actually, Conan as the editor of the Harvard LAMOON. At the time the editor of the Crimson was none other than Jeff Zucker, now the head of NBC.

Conan & the Lampoon once swiped the print run of the year
s first Crimson as a prank. Zucker called the Cambridge (not Harvard) police and had Conan & company all arrested