I had no dislike for Leno before this. I mean, I never watched him because I’ve always been a Letterman fan, but Leno always did a great monologue. But this whole Conan thing has made me lose all respect for him. Even if you ignore the incredibly disrespectful snub towards Conan, the fact is that Leno took a chance to move up in his career, to primetime, and he failed.
Again even without the whole forcing Conan out, its still so pathetic to see him even want to go back to his old job, to move backwards in his career. He should have stayed with Tonight and experimented with a primetime show first. Instead he gambled everything, and lost. And now he expects (and is getting) a ‘do-over’! Thought he had more integrity than that (Letterman would never do something like this!)
And I watched the last week of Conan. He was fine. He was as good as Leno. In fact, he was much better at sketch comedy than Leno ever was. Remember to took almost four years for Leno to finally beat Letterman’s CBS show. Conan got barely six months! And you can say its the network that forced Conan out, but without having Leno agreeing to come back they would NOT have done this. They would have given him more time. So Conan being fired is essentially completely Leno’s doing.
Jerk!