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  • Rosie's remarks are entertaining but they are more or less her venting her personal dislike of Leno than anything else. I thought it was a bit disrespectful of Leno to hand the show over to Conan and then take it back. Leno wasn't an immediate hit either on Tonight. Conan had to build his own audience. But at the same time I can't really hate on Jay for taking a job when it was offered to him. In the end its NBC's call.

  • Rosie's Leno impersonation = win!!

  • Howard people make slave wages , good for John , Howard has no Friends

  • daaaaaaame roise aired him out!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Howard does not just do Man on the Street Interviews he plays the "homeless game" which Jaywalking is directly copying, Learn what you are commenting on before you speak, you sound ignorant

  • 4:00 Hey Howard Steve Allen did man on the street interviews maybe you and Jay should man up and admit you stole from Steve Allen

  • I never liked Leno. Letterman's better.

  • Is it just me or is the word HiGH hidden in the Fire fist?

  • Conan is too juvenile for me.

  • @swine74

    I don't know about you but I'll take juvenile humor over stale humor any day of the week.

  • yeah, it's very obvous the "Jaywalking" bit isn't Leno's creation. Stern was doing a bit like that years ago.

  • It was also one of the worst recessions EVER when Conan started, therefore, the tolerance from the sponsors were nil.

  • In all fairness to Jay Leno (and I'm definitely not a big fan of his), the ratings for the Tonight Show began to drop soon after Conan O'Brien took over as host in the summer of 2009. This was several months before Jay Leno's 10 pm program started in the fall of 2009, so it's really not fair to say that Jay's low-rated 10 pm program was a poor lead-in for Conan and that's why his ratings were bad. It's all just a big mess!

  • @Chuck1974 In all fairness leno's tonight show didn't do well at the start either. Neither did Conan's late show at the beginning. You have to give shows like that time to grow, time for the right people to find it and time for all the others to adjust. Which they didn't and don't often do. And that's why television now is a hellhole of torturous bad ideas and terminal boredom.

  • @existenceisrelative amen to that. it needed time to convert the old leno crowd towards him. and they needed to give him a better lead in. Leno had Law and Order and all that good stuff, but then they cancelled law and Order not long before Conan took over and didnt replace it

  • @Chuck1974 b4 leno came on it was a bunch of reruns of nbcs crappy programming followed by that god awful newscast. he never had a good lead-in.

  • sserpent 21 you now the saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

  • Leno has been lame for like 5+ years now...Just like the Simpsons....FUCKING LAME!!!!!!

  • @tsenamaster thank you for admitting that the simpson's is fucking lame (ever since the futurama writer's left) you know there are actually assholes that think that simpson's is funny and they don't see a difference, it's fucking insane, the same deal with eminem...i can't believe how people don't see how he sucks now..it's scary that that many people function at that level of ignorance, i never used to know that before

  • @cmonguy9: Yeah, the Futurama guys left to write for that show and that show was canceled. Funny... I would think that meant they sucked as writers.

  • @CausesDrowsiness Have you ever watched an episode of Futurama? Or seen any of the Futurama movies? The reason they were cancelled is because the comedy was above the heads of ignorant trash like you, remember how Arrested Development got cancelled, that show was amazing, it was too smart for avegerage joe blow, look at more than half the shit on tv now, all this reality garbage and such-yeah look at fox news, just because something is popular on television doesn't mean shit...don't reply to me

  • @cmonguy9: You keep naming "amazing" shows which all sucked. The humor was old, dry and done already in other shows (The Simpsons included) that by the time those shows actually aired, they were already stale.

    I know your pseudo-intellectuality is something you hold dear and near to your heart, but it is so painfully obvious that you are nothing more than white trash that it hurts to even look at your posts.

  • conan's career isn't "destroyed", the people LOVE him, he'll b just fine

  • Let me count the way, reasons why big R does not like Jay. He is not a Jesus hating, fag loving flaming Liberal like Rosie. Gee here big R sounds like a nice person caring about others. Does big R give all of money away, not so I don't think she/he has a right to put capitalist down. big R does give a lot for kids but that is it. She is a God hating, disgusting Socialist loving. More ugly on the inside than the outside.

  • @bnjones28 Is hating God a bad thing?

  • @bnjones28 People like you repulse me why should any celeb give there money away?? They work hard for it so why should they give it away to please people like you? "big R does give a lot for kids but that is it" what the fuck are yu talking about....'but thats it'?? How much of your salery do you give to charity? Remember when Teri hatcher raised $40,000 for Africa and it was called 'an insult' she was slammed for 'only' raising $40,000 by dickheads like you!!

  • it's true, Jay steals all his Lame Ass Shit from Howard Stern...what?

  • whats a lead in?

  • @romeo440

    A strongly rated show that precedes another program, normally giving the follow up show a boost in ratings based simply on couch potatoes who don't change the channel once the more highly rated show ends.

  • @rudenoodle thanx

  • @rudenoodle thanx

  • howard is definitely richer than leno...howard is coming to the end of a 500 million dollar contract...it's been discussed on his show and Rosie's show if you don't believe me. Don't get me wrong...leno is a rich guy for sure, but stern and leno are in different tax brackets. There's rich, and then there's super rich.

  • It's not about Conan's shitty lead-in, oh wait..... it kind of is......... BECAUSE OF A WHACKED rating system that doesn't take into accountability this new culture that watches EVERY FUCKING THING on youtube........... haha....... or just pre records it on whatever service they have................ and I'm quite positive jay INTENDED to set conan up, knowing he wasn't ever going to be watched by anyone in the nielsen system or the popular new YOUTUBER crowd

  • Get out of Howard Stern's butt! He is no Jay Leno! And never will be!

  • YEAH!! Cause he doesn't suck.

  • @kittydingleberry leno had way better guest than Conan, anyone that isn't blind can see that, and that's what you get when you're stupid enough to have a talk show on prime time, you will need good guests...very good guests, so nbc gave leno that, and Conan got screwed, and whos fault was it? nbc for the stupid idea, and leno for doing it.

    so fuck nbc and fuck leno for taking Conan away from us.

  • Ohhhhhhhh. Shut the fuck up. Everyone KNOWS that the Nielsen rating system IS FUCKKKKKKKKKKED up........... Hell, do the research yourself. I'm really freaking tired. I gotta go scratch some terds or something. Night guys.

  • Im so pissed......FUCK LENO!

  • jay lenos chin is filled with lies and bullshit thats why its so big

  • @noedig1000 i wonder who Jay Leno's fans are so i can smack sense into their brains. But i think his ratings comes straight from Cailfornia

  • @noedig1000 its more than just bullshit and lies, fat fucken head.

  • @noedig1000 oh damn, LOL

  • Howard is making and HAS more money then Leno.

  • I don't think Letterman really tried loaning anything to Leno that would really help him. After bashing him for weeks about the Conan deal, Leno appears in a commercial with him. I thought it was rather humorous to see. For me, it did nothing to improve Leno's image. The commercial caused more damage to Leno from my perspective. Please, Leno could not be more desperate. He will FAIL.

  • @UrbanTenant

    im thinking howard's richer than jay, and he's pretty famous.

  • they're haters if they're not right. I'm not even a fan of stern, but i'm quite sure he's much more successful than leno in terms of impact and longevity of career despite overwhelming obstacles.

  • Wow, I never knew Jay hired John behind Howard's back. I always wondered why Howard hated Jay so much. Good to know.

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  • Stone and Dave really suck homo donkey balls ! After jay is done.

    That donkey has the cleanest balls ever !

    F. Robin !

  • you want a great late night interviewer, look up George Stromboulopoulos of Canada's CBC...

  • If you didn't already know about it, check out Bill Hicks' routine on Jay Leno. Utterly scathing and hilarious.

    It's also the last time Jay Leno was funny...

  • Jay is nothing to me now. I would rather back Dav in this war, and Howard Stern is right on the money.

    Thanks for posting, friend.

  • hey cuz rosie hire me to fly a citation bravo for you , wtf

  • and how do they explain jay and dave's super bowl ad, what chumps they make of us all

  • what, what, are you saying acid is groovy kill the pigs

  • high school drama

  • Jay's 2 funniest bits, Jay Walking and headlines, were stolen from Howard Stern and David Letterman... He'll flop now that no one likes him and they won't be able to produce a good lead in either.

  • im am not a cousin rosie fan but she is honest. i saw her talking about sitting in on a 9/11 celeberty charity call in "like we just saw with haiti" and she said she would do it under one condition that the celebs all cough up a million of their own money, THEY WOULDN'T DO IT!!! so she didnt do it!!! not one of them would have missed a million dollars but they want joe 6 pack to send 50 dollors fine hollywood liberals huh!!!!

  • howard original? what prank phone calls? shit we drove wmsl crazy in decatur alabama, they had a lucky listners jack pot. lol we used to call people and no matter what they caledl the amount we told them they won and to come on down to the station for an interview and to collect their money lol we drove that idea right off the air lol

  • i saw david docovnia "spelling" sitting in for a week for somebody's talk show, man the networks are missing it there the guy was great and funny. I watch the entire week.

  • hey cousin rosie, how about getting a citation bravo and hire me as your pilot, these people got more money than the pope and they fly net jets why cause i guess warren buffet needs MORE fucking money, buy your own jet and after 5 years you still own a jet rather that an expired nothing contract!!!! or you howard or leno shit i need a good stable flying gig!!!!

  • howard you make it sound like people turn the tv on at 8 pm and never change the channel? wtf like nobody uses or ever heard of a remote control. i watch alot of tv but cant tell you one show in prime time. not one, so how do i fit in with the leed in theory?

  • It's not a theory, and yes you're an exception to the rule. Big fucking deal.

  • Hahaha I love how much everybody hates Leno. They talk about him like he's TV's Hitler. I understand the anger but who cares really. Fuck TV I'm going to the beach.

  • @sigurjong ah the beach, and only if i could burn a cool joint

  • Strange to see Howard and Rosie getting along when they hated each other so long. Years ago was calling her a "pumpkin headed fat bitch" to agreeing with her completely and Rosie cutting down Jay for stealing Howards material.

  • @sserpent21 - Reminds me of a saying: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

  • @sserpent21 rosie and howard weren't interacting with each other, howard was playing an 8 min clip of rosie that she did previously on her show and he'd just pause inbetween to throw in his 2 cents,

  • @nickloks Rosie has been on his show and in the past any mnetion of Rosie got Howard started on how much he hated her, usually in reference to her show being watched by nothing but old bitties.

  • @sserpent21 yeah that's fine but this video doesn't show any interaction between the 2, before or after they may have but not here...

  • @sserpent21 It's like they say... the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

  • @cbaile yeah, but it's still weird.

  • @sserpent21 I remember Howards comments about her big head, and her supporting Wal-Mart, which sells guns, yet slamming on Tom Selleck. But people change. Howard still has other people to hate. The one that really bummed me out is when he made up with Chevy Chase...

  • @sserpent21 That's because it's all phony. The celebrity fights, feuds, arguments, whatever you wanna call them, are just meant to generate interest and ratings. Nothing more nothing less. Even the whole thing with Leno, it's interesting to his audience, that's the only reason Howard still talks about it.

  • @BigBrightBlueBox Where's your source for this information? Or is this just your opinion?

  • @ZodLex It's my own logical opinion. But let me ask you, do you think Howard would spend another minute talking about Leno if his audience didn't care for it? Think about it. It's all about entertainment first, and ratings.

  • @BigBrightBlueBox Well, I have to admit, I'm pretty detached from the celebrity world, but this was interesting to me. Maybe feuds in general aren't real, but this one seems to be. It seems few people have good things to say about Leno anyway, so it's conceivable.

  • so if you have a job that is near and dear to your heart and your boss told you that you will be replaced in 5 years. You say OK (not like you can say no, it's their call regardless of what you say). So now the time comes to make the switch and your boss realizes that they made a mistake and asked you to come back. Why should you say no?

    You are right, these guys don't own the show. NBC owns this show and they want Leno, not Conan. So all the controversy should be pointed towards NBC, not Leno.

  • Jay Leno's new theme song ~ The o'jays-back stabbers

  • Anyone who believes that NBC wasn't throwing Leno a bone with that 10pm show is a fucking moron. Affliates have been bitching to NBC for a decade for more consistent 10pm lead in shows to help their local news. Jay "held" good numbers established by the 10pm shows of the 90s, because who under 40 years of age actually watched the Tonight Show with Jay Leno just to watch it & not because of a specific guest? IMO NBC just lost any chance of developing a young audience that watches that show.

  • You make good points but you forget that NBC was asking Leno to bail them out in their 10pm slot where they were losing money. He may have agreed to step down simply because NBC gave him a long notice but it's NBC that asked him to come back. So he should say no because he accepted the proposal 5 years earlier to step down?

    Brett Favre doesn't want to retire and why should he?

    Even if a coach said the year before we are replacing you next season, should he say no if they change their mind?

  • Leno is such a weasel......I don't get why anyone would watch him.

  • rosie is my hero

  • I usually don't like loud mouth Rosie but she was talking some sense here. Jay is not original and he's a douchebag. I'm with COCO. Join the so-titled facebook group if you agree.

  • Rosie's impression of Leno is killing me. It's hysterical.

    I'm 50/50 on Rosie in general. She's said some horrible stuff that prevents me from fully liking her. But I can't completely dislike her either, because when she's on, she's ON.  This is one of those times. And it's extra great with Howard & Co. providing supplementary snark.

  • NBC = NOTHING BUT CHIN , hope the olympics your paid way too much for bury your peacock by the spring.

  • they forced leno out-they told him on 2005 he had to leave in 2010 - he didnt want to leave. when his show failed he wanted out of his contract..they said no.! conans numbers were low..nbc went to leno and asked him if he wanted his old back. Jay agreed im sure also to help his 114 employees! -nbc was afraid he would go to fox and beat conan! what if jay went to fox and conan failed on nbc.. then they r screwed!

  • I can't stand Rosie, but I doubt she islying about anything here. Fuck all the ratings numbers, we're talking about keeping your word Leno is a fucking snake. He's an insecure little shit and NBC fucked u pthe day they put him in Carson's place.

  • she was talking about the 90's when nbc was a network power house and CBS wasn't. Leno was able to build a huge following...by the time cbs was dominant (which wasn't until about five years ago) leno was already enormously popular

  • Just to amend something else to your point, how can Rosie bash Jay for being lame and that the only reason why his ratings were good was because of lead-ins?

    If Conan is as good as most on YouTube says he is, then where are all the viewers?

    Where are all these so-called loyal CoCo fans?

    His show had 2 million fewer viewers 7 months in. How much more time or money should NBC lose before they realize they made a mistake?

    And Jay is getting the heat for a decision that NBC is making?

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  • Jay is such a F' ing weirdo. I really hated him because his show was really unwatchable.And that's before I knew how much of a scumbag he is.He always try hard to come off as Mr. nice guy. And I disagree with Rosie on a lot of things,but what she said about Jay is really on point. She does a heck of a Leno impression too.Howard's really suck bad however. wahahaha

  • Jay should have stepped aside. period. hes a shitty dude just proving his shittiness with this whole debacle.

  • Something tells me, he's gonna take over for Dave, somehow, someway. This would be the ultimate way for Dave get back at Leno, and for Conan to get back. I don't know, it's a shitty situation, Jay should have walked, but, he didn't.

  • conan career aint dead he gots millions of fans including me COCO Fo life.

  • Right on bro. COCO 4 LiFe

  • Johnny was funny. Jay never was. Conan will own latenight TV within 18 months. I hope FOX leads him in with The Simpsons. Pay-back is a bitch JAY!

  • @JeffTheCanuck2 totally! Fox lead him in with the show that Conan helped make so popular would be amazing.

  • I feel like more people need to hear this. It's extremely important.

  • GO TEAM COCO! Leno can suck it!

  • Wow I hated Rosie until I heard this, now she's 'ok' in my book.

  • Jay Leno's will states that to keep the Tonight Show, he wants himself stuffed and glued to the Tonight Show desk with recorded jokes after he dies.. so basically like now

  • NICE!

  • Go to FOX Conan! FOX get Conan!

  • Conan went to Harvard Jay went Nowhere and he is still going Nowhere!!!!

  • I love you Rosie O'Donnell n_n

  • Rosie nailed it with her impersonation of Jay. Hilarious! I wouldn't trust him with my dog. Conan was about the closest we came to the late, great Carson. Remember all the crazy things Carson used to do on the Tonight Show for so many years? Can you picture Jay doing that? NOT. He's about as simple as they come, same for his audience.....oooh, 'Headlines'....Totally lame.

  • I wonder how long it took them in their dazed, elderly state to realize that Jay Leno hadn't grown 2 feet taller and sprouted orange hair, but instead there was a new host, one that is genuinely funny, for the first time in 17 f******* years!

  • I can just imagine all the old people tuning in to NBC on June 1, 2009, Conan's first episode of The Tonight Show.

    Pulling up in their Hoverounds, with a bowl of prunes in their lap, to adjust the rabbit ears on their black and white TVS, with their Life Alert alarms in their hands in case they fall and can't get up, because their stubby arthritic fingers can't fit into their rotary dial phones to dial 911.

  • leno has an attitude of scarcity?

  • PRETTY MUCH!

  • I usually (okay always) hate Rosie and i think she is a whiny Hollywood lefty, but she makes a pretty good case here....

  • I love Rosie....she's crazy but awesome

  • A-frickin'-men!

  • lol @smokespice. cool it with the conspiracy theorist blogger Kool-Aid.

  • Rosie is a rationally thinking woman. Describes point by point her argument.  Jay is a very conservative talking point. Just look back at how he pandered to the Bush folks. Numerous appearences on his show by John McCain, need I say more?

  • Jay was very conservative in the Bush years. That's when I began to see through him, didn't know the story about Carson then.

  • I appreciate the intelligent discussion of the importance of "lead in" for Conan, how Leno failed, and how Leno engineered part of the debacle (interspersed with the great humor, of course!) Thanks for posting!

  • man, watched Conan's last episode and really admire what he said about being angry but i just get more and more frustrated about the whole situation. wish i could be as good as a man as Co-Co.

  • @bluewebheadwb

    He went off the Tonight Show with true class and hilarity tonight. Conan is the man!!!!

  • I would like Howard to be a little more honest. lol

  • Rosie's got it! Wooooooww. Eyes are opened!

  • I have never thought jay leno was funny and i always knew there were a lot of comedians that did not like him but i really did not have any bad feelings about him either way...till this.

  • LOVE this!! I don't know many people who are on Jay's "side" during this whole situation. I had a hard time finding anyone who even thought he was funny prior to all of this! He's a snooze. I feel like his ratings will be fairly high once he gets the Tonight Show again, because people will want to see if he says anything about it all. But they'll probably drop off as people wait for Conan to move to Fox or wherever.

  • Jay's ratings were so good because so many old people watched his show to fall asleep..

  • I liked Jay, and still do, but I don't think what he did was right. I think it's the executives more than Jay or Conan's fault as I think they are both funny.

  • I've had love/hate emotions toward Rosie O'Donnell (I grew up in like elementary school/middle school watching her show and then she got crazy or something...) but I can't help but agree with her on this and laugh at Leno. No one I know even watches Leno... I can't wait to see what his ratings are like when he comes back to the show...

  • Listen to the clip again, even Howard at one point rationalizes that Conan couldn't deliver the numbers.

  • Of course, then he also explains the various reasons that attributed to this as well.

  • Jay's 10pm show was the one that completely bombed and the whole reason everything is being moved around to suit him. Conan's ratings were lower because of Jay's horrible lead-in, how don't you understand that? Jay already resigned and said he was passing the torch. He's such a pathetic insincere liar. Finally he can be exposed for it, otherwise he'd just keep being known as a good guy to everyone who didn't know otherwise.

  • For one, Letterman's ratings soared ever since his intern scandal as well. Also I don't know how you would gather that even "two months" of lower ratings than Letterman w/out Jay's shit show is proof of anything.

    Jay Leno's original debut on the Tonight Show wasn't stellar; it took a while to build the audience. Simple.

  • Of course most of Leno's audience wouldn't hang around for Conan. Those are two totally different types of people.

    I know it doesn't matter because the "numbers" are what matters to the powers that be. But have you ever wondered how real these ratings could possibly be? It's not like they're digitally seeing who's watching what. They're still dealing with an archaic 'viewing household' system.

  • Actually Conans premiere (day one) was twice that of Daves with a 7.1 rating.

  • Conan was never given a fair shot because Jay Leno, the lead in- sucked ass! All they needed to do was adjust the News time at 10 even back to Dateline News Magazine so that Conan has a chance. The guys like Zucker at NBC are jackasses!

  • What has happened to Stern? He's pals with Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell and pitching the Liberal talking points these days. He used to roast liberals like Obama when they were in the form of Cuomo and David Dinkins. Now he sounds like he could be their spokesman!

    I think his bitterness agaisnt Jay over the Stuttering John stuff is clouding his judgment here. I bet if the Stern from the 1980's could get in a time machine and see what he's become in 2010, he just might shoot himself.

  • Opie & Anthony also comment on the Rosie O'Donnell rant. Their commentary is spot on and resembles the old Stern!

  • You and the three other people that listen to them must've had a ball.

  • He made up with Rosie over the past year; that was a good interview. He lampoons anyone, even Obama but I guess you wouldn't know all of that if you're not listening.

    Opie & Anthony? hahaha who listens to that?

  • Apparently Stern does. That's where he steals his ideas. Actually, fewer people are listening to the old man these days, I hear.

  • You honestly have to be being sarcastic, right?  Stern created tons of original content over the decades. Opie & Anthony aren't even on his radar.

    Of course fewer people are listening, compared to FREE public radio. 6 or 7 million isn't a bad audience, I don't care how you're counting.

  • Do you work for Howard? Is this Bababooey??

  • Techno Beaver...  I thought this stuff was common knowledge.

  • hehe. Oh believe me I can despise Rosie on plenty of things. I know she's a big 9/11 conspiracy supporter. Listening to her talk about that could make me furious.

    But on this particular issue she's making sense and I love her anologies.  Howard' hated Jay for a while so of course he loves it.

  • i'm not going to put a political spin to your comment but no one would shoot himself if they had a contract paying more than a 100 million dollars for doing a radio show in the future. Howard is bitter about the Stuttering John bit but I can't explain why he's mad at Jay. John is your boy Howard, he's the one that left you. I'm sure his other co-host Robin Quivers gets courted from other networks for other jobs and it's up to her loyal boss Howard that she is moving on, not her new employer.

  • howard stern could be what conan needs he can be the hugh grant interview conan needs

  • From your mouth to God's ear, Rosie. AMEN!!!

  • Wow Rosie, I love her now...again.

  • Jay Leno "I HAVE NO ANIMOSITY TOWARDS CONAN"

    who is he kidding, of course you don't Jay, It's CONAN who should have ANIMOSITY towards you. You've made yourself look bad again JAY.