# Leno/Conan Shakeup at NBC **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 7, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leno-conan-shakeup-at-nbc/524073 "2010-01-07T21:31:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 41
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leno-conan-shakeup-at-nbc/524073/801 "2010-01-25T20:17:27Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I don’t know Carson’s exact age, but I do know that .7456 years is not any number of days. 272/365 is .745 **2** , 273/365 is .7479, and 273/365.25 is .7474. > > **Bijou** is not worthy. Any true Doper isn’t going to limit himself to ages with single-day granularity. I say **Bijou** is still in. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leno-conan-shakeup-at-nbc/524073/802 "2010-01-25T20:33:53Z")
Yes, how do you know Carson worked a full day on his last day? 🙂 He probably left early. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leno-conan-shakeup-at-nbc/524073/803 "2010-01-25T22:42:39Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Yes, how do you know Carson worked a full day on his last day? 🙂 He probably left early. I will accept that answer. ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leno-conan-shakeup-at-nbc/524073/804 "2010-01-25T22:50:48Z")
CARNAC: “Jack Kennedy, Jesus Christ, and Johnny Carson”. ED McMAHON: “Jack Kennedy, Jesus Christ, and Johnny Carson”. (Carnac opens the envelope and pulls out the card.) CARNAC: “Name three people who left early on their last day”. ED McMAHON: Ha! Yes. Absolutely. Heyooo! ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leno-conan-shakeup-at-nbc/524073/805 "2010-01-26T00:16:59Z")
> [@CaveMike](#): > > Why exactly did Conan resist The Tonight Show being moved half-hour later? Was it as he said, because he thought it would destroy the show? Pretty much. Trying to redefine the Tonight Show is dumb. Monday Night Football could get away with moving to ESPN because it’s still _the_ big game on Monday nights. Start messing with the Tonight Show, and it loses its status and become just another late night talk show. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leno-conan-shakeup-at-nbc/524073/806 "2010-01-26T03:51:17Z")
> [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > Pretty much. Trying to redefine the Tonight Show is dumb. Monday Night Football could get away with moving to ESPN because it’s still _the_ big game on Monday nights. > > Start messing with the Tonight Show, and it loses its status and become just another late night talk show. Not to mention that I don’t think anyone will really still think of Conan as the host. He would just be “the guy after Jay” and everyone would probably still consider the entire block “The Tonight Show” ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leno-conan-shakeup-at-nbc/524073/807 "2010-01-28T05:08:06Z")
It was also because if he took the 12:05 slot, then it would mean that Jimmy Fallon would move to after 1AM, and he didn’t want to destroy his former show and its new host even worse. Unlike Leno, who doesn’t seem to care WHO he steps on, even his peers…if Leno refused to go back to 11:30, none of this would have happened. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leno-conan-shakeup-at-nbc/524073/808 "2010-01-28T18:01:13Z")
> [@Raygun99](#): > > That’s his actual wife (and yes, she’s about ready to pop). She sure was - their son was born on Saturday morning, the day after the show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leno-conan-shakeup-at-nbc/524073.md?page=40)