Every day Jay experiment fails.

mndsm wrote: Stig=travis pastrana.

He would be too busy giving thumbs up - easily recognizable... I say Graham Rahal...

Leno needs to do a car show, Top Gear: America or otherwise. His current late night show sucks. Conan is alright, but I kind of liked him better during his late-late night slot.

Neither of them can hold a candle to Craig Ferguson though. Dude is tapped.

Why not a later night car guy show? Cars, music, pop Americana, comedy and maybe some guests driving cars.

Well, Jay's entertaining but not funny, and Conan's funny but not entertaining, they need to team up.

RexSeven wrote: Leno needs to do a car show, Top Gear: America or otherwise. His current late night show sucks. Conan is alright, but I kind of liked him better during his late-late night slot. Neither of them can hold a candle to Craig Ferguson though. Dude is tapped.

Ditto!

This is all about pressure from the affiliates. Leno's show is poison in its timeslot, and drives viewers away in droves from their 11 o'clock news. Mean time, Conan's still not finding his footing at 11:30, and competing against other strong shows smack in his demo. Leno didn't compete with Stewart/Colbert, because the audiences are totally different. It's a terrible match for everybody.

Conan could walk and be fine. Leno could go back to the Tonight Show and put it back on like a comfortable pair of jeans (with a matching jean shirt) and nobody would notice.

Here's my proposition: swap Conan and Leno. Leno goes back to being background noise while baby boomers have sex under the covers with the light off then drift off to sleep, and Conan gets to inject some quirkiness into the 10pm slot, and bring his hipper-than-thou viewers with him, who can then click over to Comedy Central for the Daily Show. Win-win.

Jay wrote: I would rather watch my own spleen being removed than anything with Seinfeld in it.

What about a show with Seinfeld removing your spleen?

Jerry From LA wrote:

Jay wrote: I would rather watch my own spleen being removed than anything with Seinfeld in it.

What about a show with Seinfeld removing your spleen?

Wow, Jerry, Jay seems to have cut close to the bone...

WAIT A MINUTE...

Jay? Jerry? ... ... ... ... ... Whoa

John Brown wrote: WAIT A MINUTE... Jay? Jerry? ... ... ... ... ... Whoa

For the record, Seinfeld and I have never been seen together so infer what you will....... However, I have been in the same now-defunct car parts store in North Hollywood with Mr Leno.

Meanwhile, reports say Mr L is through in prime time and won't return after the Winter Olympics. NBC would like Jay to get the 11:35p - 12:05a slot followed by Conan from 12:05a - 1:05a with Jimmy Fallon taking the hour after that. Again, NBC does not want one of these guys to walk and beat them as a competitor. At least one of these guys will not be satisfied and will go.

I read that Fox is courting Conan, plus I'll guess he's the one with the most to lose in this deal.

I'll have to tune in tonight to hear what he and Jay have to say in their monologues.

stuart in mn wrote: I read that Fox is courting Conan, plus I'll guess he's the one with the most to lose in this deal. I'll have to tune in tonight to hear what he and Jay have to say in their monologues.

That's what they're hopin'....

stuart in mn wrote: I read that Fox is courting Conan, plus I'll guess he's the one with the most to lose in this deal.

Not from what I've read. I've heard that NBC is in breach of their contract, so no matter what happens, Conan will be getting 20 mil a year for the next four or so years. The only bad part is if he signs with another network, NBC only has to pay the difference. So if he's offered a 15 mil/year contract, NBC will only have to pay him 5 mil a year. I'd go on a four year vacation.

Tim Allen instead of Jerry Seinfeld

Well... Little Timmy Dick CAN wrestle a race car.

None of them are that good IMO. I checked out Lopez Tonight, and it is pretty much the same. I mean, when is a host going to sit on the left...just for a change of pace! And they all do a weak monologue for 10 minutes, then run out of time for a really funny comedian. There isn't much you can do with the stale old late-night interview format I suppose, but none of them (and I include Ferguson) have ever made me laugh out loud. I would rather watch Three Sheets or Insomniac, comedians and drunk people...now that's funny.

Three Sheets is pretty funny but my Time Warner dropped the whole MOJO channel. Damnit.

mtn wrote: Tim Allen instead of Jerry Seinfeld

This.

Or even better, we have Tim Allen and Jerry Seinfeld Thunderdome for it.

Fifty bucks says we watch a grunting, re-wiring Tim beat the snot out of a gesticulating, whining Jerry.

Conan's saying if he can't host the Tonight Show at its normal time slot, he no longer wants to be with NBC:

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/conan-obrien-says-he-wont-do-tonight-show-following-leno/

After reading his statement, I thought two things:

a) Conan is a class act in in the middle of this E36 M3storm.

b) I hope he does leave NBC because they are jerking him around big-time.

Atleast late night tv is finally funny again http://tv.gawker.com/5446744/late-night-mayhem-as-conan-obrien-and-everyone-else-turns-on-nbc-all-the-clips-you-missed