Howard Stern comments on Connan vs Jay & NBC (1/25/2010) (Part 1)

[margarita120]

Who else thinks that the "friend" way up who used to work for nbc is david letterman??

[devious222]

what the hell.. i like stern but i completely disagree with him on this. but to be honest i think he was just taking a polemical view just to make a big point.

[stali28]

Love Howard Sterns honesty...he's dead on

[Gangularis]

NBC gave him his career.. Not Jeff Zucker or Jay Leno.. There is much more to NBC than that. Conan repeatedly pointed out those from NBC that he thanked and appreciated..

[motivatedbyhate]

conan really went out like a pussy - this company took a shit on him and i understand he didnt wanna go as low as they did but theres still no reason to kiss their ass as well

[MrWaynejohn]

let,s agree that alan partrige would do a better job than jay or conan

[AirforceOrange]

i love howard's paranoia! afraid of flying, swiming in dirty water, eating fake mayonaise...

[EEPspaceD]

Conan's production company is currently working on future shows for NBC. Maybe that's why he took it easy on them.

[camselle]

"..and you know what? FUCK IT! Burn a bridge, asswipe!!" ROTFFL!!!!!!!

[wconditi]

"...The insects got caught in the uh....uh-g'bye!" SMASH!!!!

[PSeuDoNYM1821]

I hate the expression "kill 'em with kindness," but that's exactly what Conan did.

After everything Jay Leno and NBC did to undermine and sabotage Conan and his "Tonight Show" going out that way was well-played for a number of reasons we won't ever understand and a few we do understand.

I think Howard's really funny and entertaining. But, I think Howard hates Jay and NBC so much, he's mistaken Conan's goodbye as weakness instead of the very subtle "fuck you Jay and NBC" that it was.

Go Coco!

[sserpent21]

"That would be me on fire."

Howard rules

[adx999]

stern u bitchhhh!! u should have went to conan lameee

[jayteso]

i like howard hes hilarious but hes a coward for not going over there considering a chance he hates nbc so much and he had the chance to badmouth nbc thought he hated them so much

[RST432]

Actually why he said he wasnt going, because he said Conan planned for Dave to be there, and if Dave was there then Howard DIDNT need to come. Except NBC barred Conan from having Letterman there.

[AnotherCompartment]

it could be that conan really was thankful because it is a minuscule percentage of people who get the opportunities he had and money he has made over the 20 years. howard may be entertaining, but people don't generally have any respect for him. i have respect for conan.

[gatsu6969]

just had to comment on the first minute. i'm not on any team, but conan's speech was classy and true. to hate on a company that made you famous and paid you huge amounts of money because of one dispute, would have been a crap way to end it. conan went out with class, not sure how stern would have done it.

[AdamNedeff]

Exactly. Don't mistake the guys who screwed you for seven months for the guys who supported you for 19 years. I usually agree with Howard's rantings, but I think Conan did the right thing on his way out.

[somewhatlongdong]

Jay Leno, in todays interview on Oprah, proved that he is neither sincere or truthful.

[Ahtahs]

Conan did the right thing.

At the end of the day he has shown that he has more class than both NBC and Leno put together. On top of that he didn't mention Jay's name once in the whole show. A subtle way of saying "Fuck you, this is MY night".

If he had've gone out there and just bitched and moaned, it would have been lowering himself. Conan tried to make the occassion special, not a depressing drag.

[kingjappyjoe]

go coco!

[JDSabre]

I'm with Coco FUCK LENO

[lurkula]

Conan took the high road.

[theriftable]

dude...conan has no reason to go on the air on say "fuck nbc" while hes on nbc tv. theres no point. it was his last show and he was leaving anyway so theres no reason himto be bitter and burn a bridge when its already over. plus nbc gave him the job in the first place and paid him a shit load of money so hes got no major reason to bitch and complain about it, at least publicly. conan made a classy move here and not surprsingly is more classy than howard stern.

[fmthebaron]

Conan should've knocked out Leno and do his show with Jay's unconscious body on the desk and just imitate Jay's annoying voice the whole show.  That stupid bobble head audience would cheer I bet, they're mindless zombies.

[rumpole33]

i think the problem stems w/ conan's parents raising him to say 'thank you for a lovely time' when he leaves someone's house just to be gracious, even tho he might have had a bad time. also, he knows that loads of ppl r suffering economically now,so he didnt want to look like he was ungrateful about all the $ & opportunities he got. he didnt want want to look bad by being too b*tchy about not being allowing to get more (like greedy leno). he came out of it looking like the good guy unlike leno.

[Trig242]

Reading all of the comments I can understand everyone not agreeing with Stern...if you recall NBC had a shit awful time with NBC and I'm sure a load of that anger is still there...even after all of these years. Not to mention the Leno/Letterman thing years back...I think its more Stern's anger with NBC rather than Stern bashing Conan.

BTW I'm with Coco haha!

[sigurjong]

Conan's speech was very good. NBC made Conan O'Brien!. That's just a fact and it doesn't matter what the executives did later on that's still gonna be a fact. Conan recognizes that. Howard wants to throw all that out. I understand the anger but if you let anger take over your whole being you're not gonna be thinking like a rational person. Jay is a phony and the NBC executives are idiots. We all know that.

[draconian45]

I'm a Stern fan but I think he is full of shit on this one. Conan chose to be classy and leave the show with some dignity instead. Even though NBC may not be popular today they still gave him his big break many years ago. That's more than many people get. Not everyone has to be hateful and bitter like you Howard.

[jayskye10]

Conan is awesome, but his last show sucked! That Will Ferrell shit was He totally bowed out!!

[bardoc13]

Howard is blinded by his own bitterness towards NBC. He looks down on Conan but at the end of the day Conan has been on network television, hosted the Tonight show and received 35 millions dollars. All Howard's pettiness has got him is a show on satellite radio. The way Conan went out made everyone but Howard be inspired by Conan. Conan is the opposite of damaged goods. After his last show, he is the guy in demand. I usually like Howard too btw. He is just way off on this one.

[funcollegegirlsusa]

Bardoc13 Howards pettiness has gotten him a 500 million dollar contract on Sirius Satellite radio....he chose to leave terrestrial radio....It's already been said that Clear Channel would take him back if he wanted to come back and are willing to pay a high price if he'd come back...Stern is up there with the Oprahs', Rush's, and O'Reilly's...Conan can't even fold his socks

[UMNOman]

howard stern's time is over

[makaveli3900]

Conan is walking away with a $40 million + "severance package"....he can suck my dick

[PchickenPcake]

I agree with Howard 100%

[elphiechan808]

i agree with Howard that Will Ferrell shit was stupid

[bluewhale18]

conan had to say what he said

you just can't disrespect a 40million payout

[Animasus]

I think Conan's speech was really moving and I really respect him for not smacktalking NBC, he doesn't have to ruin the moment, the last minutes of his time on his dream job. It's just sad and pathetic to do such a thing which thankfully Conan evaded. I believe that after watching the last days of the Tonight show with Conan O'Brien nobody will think he's damaged goods. At least not me.

[thedude4387]

I think it was pretty graceful for Conan to go out this way. He should have told Leno to go to hell for being such a bitch though.

[rdchili69]

You would think Howard got screwed here.

[rdchili69]

Howard also said he is thanking NBC, well yeah they had to end up giving him over 30 million dollars because of this.

[rdchili69]

Howard said be real, well Howard, Conan is being real. Conan is just not a douchebag, thank god for that. I like Howard but sometimes he says stupid things.

[GreatestVidsEver]

Howard just is a different personality, he can't understand not wanting to be bitter... Conan also isn't a boring shock comedian so that little fuck the company that built me gimmick wouldn't work as well.

(Sorry Howard i like your show but its what you are and its nothing special.)

[maikeru01]

well howard isn't looking to be bitter. what he's saying is that it's unfair to have to be as pathetically passive as conan. you do all this work, you finally make your dream come true and then its pulled out from under you and you have to thank them for that? Conan is grateful for what he had, howard thinks conan got jipped. they're both right.

[lordmaldad]

I usually agree with Stern, but I thought Conan's speech was awesome.

[rdchili69]

@lordmaldad

I agree with what you said.