Of course. But he could have handled it privately, not on the show. It’s so strange.
He’s going to cry? Please.
If you really feel badly for him, send him a few bucks.
This has been a pathetic cry for attention. It just doesn’t speak well for him, IMO.
Freebird!!!
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Are you getting paid $5 for each time you use the word “cry” or “crybaby” in a post in this thread?
I liked Conan’s last speech there. Good stuff.
Leno isn’t really to blame here. NBC is. You can’t blame Leno for taking the money NBC is throwing at him.
If Conan was kicking ass in his time slot, NBC would have cut Leno’s show and kept him.
How many people get to even do their dream job? AND get paid an outrageous amount of money to do it?
Hell, if I could have played 7 months in the major leagues, I’d be thrilled. Would it hurt to get sent back to the minors? Sure. But it would be the thrill of a lifetime. And the $33-45 million would make the fall very cushy.
MORE COWBELL!!! Yeah!!
I was worried how this last episode would go.
It did not disappoint.
Fun ending but someone needs to tell Will Ferrell he really can’t sing.
HAHA! No. I guess I have used it a bit too much.
He’ll be fine. He’ll land on his feet.
And if Leno sucks this next time around, I’m sure NBC will have no problem saying good-bye to him, either.
Now, if we could only get rid of Dick Clark on New Year’s Eve 
could it possibly be that Conan’s audience wasn’t old enough to stay up and watch him? :dubious:
Kudo’s to Conan on his last show. He ended it on a high note.
As far as I can tell, Conan did the same thing Stink Fish Pot said he would do, and he hates it anyway. 
For the official record that was a … near-listenable version of Freebird featuring Billy Gibbons, Robert Randolph, Beck, and Conan with the Tonight Show band and Will Ferrell.
That’s a helluva way to end the show.
Think I’m being too harsh?
Perhaps I am. 
Sorry, Conan fans. I’m not picking on you.
As George Wallace said, “Can you think of a better time to kick a man than when he’s down?”
Cynicism slightly abated then. Good for him.
“I hate cynicism. Don’t be cynical.”
Stupid crybaby. Didn’t you just know he was gonna play the “don’t be cynical” card?
Conan would hate me, because this has made me more cynical than ever. But he’s right; work hard, be a good guy, and amazing things will happen. But not necessarily the good kind of amazing.
I’ve really deleted NBC from my channel lineup. Sure, it’s just a pointless, emotional move, but I doubt I’ll find a reason to reinstate it.
Craig Ferguson is proving to be a good salve.
I love the standards we’re holding people to nowadays.
The principle-less, talent-less hack is not to blame! What other option does he have but ruin the lives and dreams of another show’s cast and crew when the opportunity was offered to him . . . I mean, he’s only a near-billionaire! Nope, no blame here!
And don’t come back to me and say the ratings speak for themselves. If, back in the early nineties, Leno was held to the same standards Conan was held to here, the only thing we would remember about him would be the Doritos commercials.
So I’m confused: Do you like class acts like Carson that, when they’re done, they walk away and never pop up again? Or do you like Leno who, when he was done, did NOT walk away and eventually popped up again and again?
Well, I guess the bottom line is we’re gonna have a class-less act now hosting the Tonight Show once the Olympics are over.
Leno had a 1.4 rating with the 18-49 prime demographic in 2008. Before the rise in ratings as the result of all this attention Conan was getting … 1.0.
I’m not an AARP member, though I’m eligible. (You’re eligible as soon as you move out of the 18-49 demographic, interestingly.) But we aren’t the problem. It’s all you Conan fanatics who didn’t bother to watch his show. You have to blame yourselves. Really. You do.
I do (did) watch his show…in a non-traditional format: the Internet. I imagine a lot of my generation gets their television the same way. Don’t know if those millions get counted in the ratings.
This is another thing we talked about upthread - apparently they do get counted in the diary ratings method, which only takes place in certain months. But they do not get counted by the year-round ratings (set-top box) system.