Exactly

True. I can’t stand Leno but at least he’s engaged when interviewing guests and has a rapport with them, rather than just repeating what they’ve just said, fake laughing, and slapping the desk, like Fallon does, night in and night out. 🙄

Fallon is the absolute worst of all of them

@@belltolls1984 it's like he never grew up and matured. Fallon is like watching a kid show with a kid running it

@@benzamg32m68 It really is, his fake laughter and overreacting is just so cringeworthy. The only thing I ever knew Fallon from was that "idiot boyfriend" music video that was on TRL all the time in the early 2000s; it had Zooey Deschanel in it and really summed up his "comedy" in a nutshell. He hasn't matured since like you said.

Would he still be at The Tonight Show? He left TBS after a decade. 2011 to 2021. He seems done with it. You have to recall he did late night for so long...93 to 2009 and TBS a decade plus his time on Tonight Show. Nearly 28 years, almost 30. 30 was the length of time Johnny did Tonight Show.

It’s got to be easier when millions of people are rooting for you

Don't forget he made an absolute fortune from their incompetency.

Hard to feel sorry for a guy who got millions out of the contract buyout.

@@dabearcub A huge amount of money / compensation *can* be an enticement and it can be a reward, it’s **NOT** always a motivator, for certain.

Very awesome!

Wow. That's super cool! How was your experience? Did you meet big C?

If Conan O'Brien returned to The Tonight Show, the ratings would go through the roof.

@@herrqwertz3567 I did!! He is exactly the same as what he presents on tv!

@@redheadgoeshealthy9505 That is wonderful to hear🤗

Tbs' Conan is no longer??

@@draxxthemsclounts2478 where have you been?

His podcast is way cooler though

@@Pijanoo honestly the podcast platform really showcases Conan’s limitless potential

He's got an upcoming HBO Max show

it would have been perfect if johnny was there too, but this is a great moment for late night

It's a monumental conversation in the history of suits. Dave is not wearing his usual double-breasted suit coat, what the hell is going on

Conan was nervously drinking that water like he'd been in the Sahara for a week.

Ya... I just read the book about the Leno-Letterman thing.. I'm presuming there will be one about this new thing?

@@AntonQvarfordt There already is. "The War For Late Night: When Leno Went Early & Television Went Insane" by Bill Carter. Excellently researched, unbiased look at what happened during "The Tonight Show debacle."

Definitely. That’s one thing I also respect a lot about Seth Meyers

He has to know their names so that he can call them out while choking them for sexual pleasure.

Nope, I can't say I'm a fan of that cackling skin tag.

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He even brought one of them to his episode on hot ones

@@itsmebran3805 and none agree with you

because Jay is neither

Laughable.

Did Conan ask Jay, if he wanted to retire? Did Jay ask Johnny Carson? Or are you just all...well...

RE: "Did Conan ask Jay, if he wanted to retire?" Nope, just said yes to *NBC's* proposal and let them tell Jay what they'd decided. RE: "Did Jay ask Johnny Carson?" It was Johnny's decision to retire. He shocked *NBC* when he announced it, too. It was the right decision, though, because at that point Johnny was 65 and only working 3 nights a week.

10:19 "You're not doing the head waggle."😄

They payed him so much though

@@oosthakker I was kind of thinking the same thing. I think Conan was wronged, but I don’t feel *too* bad for him. I’d be very happy to be the host of the Tonight Show and then fired. $$$

@@stvartak7164Point taken, but hosting the Tonight Show had been his dream since he was a kid. He worked his way up in broadcast for almost twenty years to put himself in the running to host that show. And then, a mere three months after they gave it to him, they took it back and gave it to Jay. No amount of money can buy the dream that Conan lost when Jay strong-armed him out of that gig

I saw an article that he used the that check to pay for his whole staff for a year ​@stvartak7164

Well, not very much because he used a lot of that money to relocate all his stuff to CBS. Also, the last opportunity he had he could’ve got paid much more if he went to other networks during his prime time, but he’s decided to stick around at NBC because he wanted to be the host of the tonight night show

@@bechtoea Damn you to hell! LOL... I'm actually probably going to watch this whole long interview, or at least as much of it while they're still talking about the old days... what are you doing to me?

I just watched the whole thing... it was pretty good, although Howie should calm down a little bit, and let his guest speak more. It pretty effectively made the case that neither Dave nor Conan can claim that Jay wronged them in any way.

Me too

The issue with Cohan was he wasn't consistent. The issue with Letterman was his cynicism, which admittedly is the same issue with Kimmel a good part of the time. I think Fallon does a modern version of Leno, fairly vanilla, doesn't play political sides or favorites, a good reliable show. Of course, I'd trade them all for Craig Ferguson. He had my side splitting about 90% of the time.

@@bechtoea And with regard to Ferguson: for his last show he chose as his only guest, *Jay Leno.* Kind of amazing considering Ferguson's show was produced by Letterman's company, but he and Jay actually became friends and appeared elsewhere together after they left late night.

No doubt

Robin Williams was the King

I can say the same. I never saw his show on air, but since I found out about him (i live in the Philippines) I’ve been watching all his sketches and remotes, and been listening to his podcast religiously.

Yep. It’s so tough for Conan’s side of it too. Hosts are rarely good on other talk shows. Watch Howard when he’s a guest elsewhere. He can’t handle it and overcompensates the entire time. Talks wayyyy too much.

Yes! The comedic give-and-take in this interview is a master class on how to vamp off one another. Two comedy experts at work

Jay Leno buys cars so you don't have to!

@@taekwondotime big deal

@@merricat3025 Bill Gates buys land so you don't have to!

@@taekwondotime I have few acres. That's plenty for me, thanks.

@@merricat3025 For now... until Bill Gates forces you to sell.

Weren’t you so validated as a fan?! Like…this is why I love you Conan

Conan is better. the quickest witted of them all.

He had my rolling 😂

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Seriously. The two best to ever do a show at 12:30. Johnny's the only comp for them at the earlier hour.

Evidently...

Went to tbs and done to Lopez what he said was done to him

Yup he rivals Letterman may yet surpass him

thanks for this, I looked it up, and it's leaving Prime in about 10 days!

Conan is just one of my favourite people, full stop.

I watched it when it came out. I just remember thinking, damn, this guy was not built for the road. Never heard the commentary, but it's obvious what happened. Guy sat at a desk for almost 20 years then all of a sudden, he's deep into a tour. It was probably crazy stressful.

@@daveharttify good point. That and touring while being away from his family during an already stressful situation was probably rough. There was a scene, I think where he says "I don't wanna have to go meet 100 people" or something like that. In the commentary he starts criticizing himself and calling himself a whiner and saying "shut up Conan". lol

@@apelpinoy thank you for pointing this out, I’m watching it right now before it goes away.

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Leno is doing his thing as an auto enthusiast/successfull TV series and well respected auto historian while Dave and Conoan still call each other and tell "let's insult Jay" stories.....lofl. I give Letterman some props for being enthused about car racing and part owning an Indycar team.

He also looks wildly modern compared to every one of them. They’re stuck in the dying medium and he’s making some of the best stuff of his career.

Conan on tbs with all the Jordan Schlansky bits will always be top-tier Conan

Fallon’ son Carson. I think the tonight show format will forever be in the shadow of Carson, which is why no one else measures up IN THAT FORMAT. All the great late night shows post-Carson did something different. Fallon does Carson’s format without Carson’s interview talent.

Yeah, but on the other hand they had to kill off the masturbating bear when they changed shows. That guy was always being the best he could be...

Network television is filled with puppets and hacks... You have to be, you are very controlled, very watched, what's written and said is very limited.. And conan was part of that.. It was awesome when he left NBC and later Joined tbs... Sucked how it happened but it did

AGREED!!! It was like the show was LITERALLY created for him!

I love that man.

I’ve seen this a lot and never noticed that.

“Tonight Show… did a great job there…” 😂! Leno was so much better and had such better ratings it’s comical to pretend like Conan was a victim. TV execs didn’t honor their word!!? Call the FBI!!! 😝 These late night dorks are a shameless bunch.

@@zackattack635 Jay Leno is a complete hack lol I'd rather watch freakin Jimmy Fallon than Jay Leno.

@@zackattack635 Leno certainly had a bigger following, but that's not necessarily a good indicator of quality. Think about some of the more popular stand-ups and musical artists. This is all subjective of course, but in my opinion, Conan is way funnier and more entertaining than Leno.

@@geoffok Lol but it still takes her being funny and charismatic to even be so prominent.

A raconteur we called 'em back in the Day.

Especially when they had Norm MacDonald on :)

Facts.

@@sugarcookiecube They're all retired...

@@sugarcookiecube Why do you keep saying "both"? The OP was talking about all 3... now which two of those are you talking about and what years?

Graham Norton is so good though. Not american but better than any american talk show right now.

“Eeeehhhhh” (shakes head and sticks out chin)

The Jay Leno fly - Craig Ferguson

Conan has consistently cited Letterman as one of his biggest comedic influences so it probably meant a lot to him to hear that from Dave.

Then....some kind of a mix up.

So have I. It's a funny interview, so I have been re-watching it. So excited to see the better quality as well.

OMG!! Same here!

How many times did you watch it?

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Same! Thank you!

Conan loves Norm too. He even said that Norm is his favorite guest.

Perfectly said.

I wanted to comment above but saw yours and realized I would just be copying; could not agree more.

2a and 2b below Johnny Carson.

Only thing that matters is the ratings. Johnny is first and Jay is second. Jay not as smart as Conan or Dave, but out works both of them and wins. Two sore losers crying in each others soup.

Yup. Johnny, Dave and Conan would be my holy trinity of late night hostS

He had enough money BEFORE the Tonight Show to never need to work again. This was about pride and in a strange way, dignity. I mean, for it being a comedy show matter. 😆

He used that money to pay his staff who all just moved from NY to CA for TTS.

@@Controldenied0 It was Conan's decision to resign from "The Tonight Show" that put them out of work, so he owed them some of that buy out money.

@@gallery7596 They wanted him to go on at 12:05 after Leno. They knew he wasn't going to accept that. It was insulting.

@@davidleary4524 RE: "They wanted him to go on at 12:05 after Leno." Yes, but he was still going to be the host of his dream job. RE: "They knew he wasn't going to accept that." The network wanted Conan to stay so they could still have both guys working for them. They even offered Conan more money to remain as host of "TTS." RE: "It was insulting." As jerry Seinfeld said of the situation: "if you're still on television then you're winning. Give it a try." But Conan wouldn't, and a lot of people lost their jobs. He owed them.

Hah yup! She can have all the Friends binges at work that she wants. Honestly though those two are a perfect together!

💯💯 they are the best

You are correct.

@@HAL_9000__ commie

Craig was really good!!

@@edsnotgod "everything I don't like is communism."

@@lilrocky2640 "duhTrump colluded with Putin the right wing kgb fascist and every anti vaxxer is a Trumper and Russia fan and make Trumpers all wear a Star of Covid in public and seize their bank accounts like comrade Trudeau did in Canada and cancel them all lol"

It's relative, though. Not everybody's Team CoCo. If they were, his *TBS* show would probably still be in production.

Giving awards to comics is the height of stupidity. Absolutely wrong in every way.

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Wait, did he die?

@@anulkaaw No, lol. I was referring to how he left network TV for the past 11 years, and last year he decided to retire from his late night TBS show for good.

Um, I think you're going a little overboard with the lavish praise here. His show tanked and that's why NBC replaced him. It was nothing personal, he got a show with the number one spot and it went to number three within months. So, you sort of have to take the personality out of it and take a look at the bottom line which is advertising dollars and kind of figure out that was the whole reason he lost the show. He didn't have it.

Not everyone saw it Conan's way. Bill Maher thought Conan and Letterman were acting like kids. Jerry Seinfeld sure didn't agree with Conan's decision to walk away from "The Tonight Show," either.

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The idea of Consn making his last Tonight Shows cost NBC as nuch as possible was simple, juvilile, petty, and brilliant. The comedy of that idea wouldn’t have worked for anybody else, but it was perfection for Conan because the audience felt for Conan and was rigt there with him as though they were sticking it to NBC themselves.

Indeed it was, plus the birth of Team Coco with the fans camping outside of the Tonight Show studios to cheer him on.

Letterman never got over being second choice to replace Carson.

Even with Joan Rivers out of consideration after the Fox thing and by being in daytime by that time, he was still the runner-up to a guy who played a guy in line for the free clinic on an episode of *Good Times.* That had to hurt more than the Oscar thing.

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@@jire9831 his intelligence is clearly superior to any average human being, and he uses it all to make himself look stupid or goofy just to make people laugh, and for me it always work. He was born for comedy and you can tell by how naturaly funny he is

Disagree wholeheartedly. A perfectly normal comedian like thing to do.

@@derekprospero Nah you're delusional.

As much as I love Conan his show was never going to be as big as leno. It's about eyeballs not who Hollywood likes.

I love that Kimmel even ripped Leno a new one in his own show during that time lol. I still don’t watch anything with Leno to this day. Team coco for ever

RE: ''pretty much all the late night hosts sided with Conan.'' Well, there was Letterman and Kimmel, of course, but who else with a late night show at that time sided with Conan?

The final episodes of Conan's Tonight Show were some astoundingly good televsion

If everyone was behind Conan he wouldn’t have been axed. He was axed because his ratings were lacking.

this reminds me of chris rock. taking it on the chin.

Well, one giant and one wannabe.

@@tjewett1967 For his run, I think he achieved that "giant" status,. Both by his work and his influence on the people and the media.

​@@tjewett1967Conan is the last titan of television.

IMHO, The spirit of the “Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” was given to David Letterman who took it to CBS and gave us the “Late Show”. Now that Letterman has retired I believe that spirit went to Jimmy Kimmel.

@@Rnyargd Kimmel can't even shine Dave's creative shoes!

@@suprchickn7745 Dave would probably disagree with you

RE: "Since Carson retired, The Tonight Show hasn't been a career crowning glory for any host with integrity." But what did Jimmy Fallon ever do to anyone that shows a lack of integrity? RE: "...not getting the show was the best thing that happened to Letterman and Conan." There we agree, because *CBS* turned out to be a much better home for Dave than *NBC* was likely to ever be. Had Dave accepted *NBC's* last minute "Tonight Show" offer, it likely would've been him eventually getting the boot in favour of a younger host, and probably a lot sooner than they did it to Jay. As for Conan, he made the right decision, but too late. If he'd originally accepted one of the major offers he was getting for a show of his own at *ABC* or *FOX,* he might still be hosting a network talk show, and the entire "Tonight Show debacle" would've been averted. But he just didn't recognize that what *NBC* could do to Dave and Jay, they could just as easily do to him.

@@Rnyargd smarmy eyeless Ted Cruz look alike

The King of late night, even now without a show

yay..team coco!

@@hashbrownfob hell be the king of streaming soon ;)

@@rokaanalzeer7148 Sure hope so!

It’s not arguable. He is one of the best.

And Leno deserved every second of it.

Schadenfreude for who?

@@deini Are you being serious?

@@the406seadonkey6 Hope the OP got a dictionary out.

Was a very talented writer for nbc long before he got a show

@@wddub9075 And he wrote for The Simpsons early on.

It would be great to watch Tom's shows!