the tonight show. dick cheney-related stories
Posted Jun 2nd 2009 2:38PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, Industry, Celebrities, Reality-Free
You gotta love the ol' rumor mill. It sleeps less than Amy Winehouse.
Conan O'Brien hasn't even finished his first week as the new host of
The Tonight Show and the insiders are already churning out rumblings about Jay Leno's new show.
Some sources close to the network and
The Jay Leno Show told
Kim Masters of The Daily Beast that Leno is slowly growing unhappy with his new time slot and the changes that are being made to the new show by the network. There are even concerns that the stress of the situation is starting to take a toll on the host's health.
Continue reading Some 'uh-ohs' bubble up behind the scenes of The Jay Leno Show
Posted May 27th 2009 1:08PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, Interviews, Celebrities, Reality-Free
The world's armchair TV executives proudly proclaimed that the only way Conan O'Brien's cavalcade of foul-mouthed puppets and surreal pop culture mechanes could work every night at 11:30 p.m. is with a potent injection of Ritalin (
present executive included).
O'Brien noted, however, that television has broken the time barrier.
"I think especially now, people don't watch an episode of
Lost when they are supposed to watch it," he said during a recent conference call. "DVRs changed everything. The Internet has changed everything. People are getting it off Hulu and watching shows on their iPhone. What's most important to me with
The Tonight Show is it needs to be funny so people can experience it at 11:30 or watch it the next morning while they're eating their oatmeal."
Continue reading Conan talks to reporters about "feeding the dragon" on the new Tonight Show
Posted Mar 15th 2006 8:54AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: NBC, Music and Variety, Celebrities
This story makes me wonder whether
Jay Leno is riddled with guilt over making fun of people on
The Tonight Show. When he compared Dick Cheney's
hunting accident to a shooting outside a Los Angeles courthouse, he received a letter of complaint from a friend of the
L.A. victim. In response, Leno personally phoned the woman and offered her an apology, saying that he never meant to
hurt anybody. Leno also apologized to a distant relative of the doctor who set John Wilkes Booth's leg after he shot
President Abraham Lincoln. He said he made a mistake in the joke. The guy said he never complained to Leno, because he
knows it's just a joke and didn't take any offense. But, he appreciated the call anyway.
Weird, eh? Maybe
that explains why he kisses his guests' asses-- 'cuz he feels guilty for making fun of them.
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