With Jay Leno "enjoying" his worst Tonight Show ratings in years, and also getting shut out on the Emmy nominations while Conan O'Brien -- who had to submit on his own behalf since NBC ...
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Louis C.K. was on The Tonight Show last night promoting his new FX show Louie (which is brilliant, btw), and he talked about his kids. A lot of late night guests will talk about their kids to the poin...
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this year’s Emmys—thanks to a last-minute submission by O’Brien’s team—will see a face-off between The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien in the “best variety series” category, finally putting their longstanding feud to rest once and for all when both programs lose to the much more deserving The Daily Show or The Colbert Report.
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ources tell Movieline that Conan O’Brien’s longtime bandleader Max Weinberg recently made overtures to Leno about joining the new Tonight Show as Leno’s bandleader. He’d be replacing Kevin Eubanks, who announced in February that he had plans to leave the show.
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"Conan got screwed, and I got screwed," Leno said. "This is TV. The reason how business pays a lot of money is, when you get screwed you have something left over."
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Asked by Kelly Ripa if he had any ill feelings toward Mr. Leno and NBC, Andy Richter, a guest co-host on “Live,” replied: “Um, yes. Yes, I do. Why wouldn’t I?”
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Sarah Palin's stand-up routine on "The Tonight Show" earlier this week wooed a Chicago comedy club owner--who has given Palin an "open invitation" to perform at his Old Town club. Zanies VP Bert Haas told NBC Chicago that he liked Palin's "Tonight Show" performance, and thinks she would be a good fit for Zanies.
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"Now let's say that Leno is shamelessly pandering. There's another word for that in the TV industry. Its called programming. People like it, it goes on the air. Why anyone would think broadcast television is intended to be a bastion of sophisticated humor is mystifying." - Andrew Wallenstein, The Hollywood Reporter.
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno made its "triumphant" "return" last night.. It was horrible. But plenty of us sat through it, just because we had to. Landline TV figured that must be the case for every Leno audience, as they outline in their latest video.
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A recap of Leno's devolution from inspirational, ground breaking club comic to lowest-common-denominator pandering clown.
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