Thread: Jay Leno gets owned

If you know the situation between Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno you can skip the next paragraph and watch the video now.

Right, so you guys might not be that in to the drama between two late night shows in America, but this is genuinely funny. Basically, 5 years ago, Jay Leno said he'd be stepping down in 2009, so they would pass the "Tonight Show" flame off to Conan O'Brien. Starting around 2008, NBC's ratings began to tank so they decided to keep Leno but to put him just in an earlier time slot. This show failed horribly, causing the ratings of the Tonight Show (now hosted by Conan O'Brien) to fall as well. NBC cancels Jay Leno's new show and completely fucks O'Brien over by saying they're going to move him back to 12:05, apparently not seeing the incongruity at airing a show called "The Tonight Show" after midnight. Pretty much every other night show host in America is siding with Conan, which makes Leno's decision to interview Jimmy Kimmel (host of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live), a rival late night host, even more peculiar. What happens is pure ownage of Leno by Kimmel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FNmWFD4oWg

Originally Posted by Hoopymo

I've been following this a fair bit the past few days.

Jay Leno should fuck off and do a show about cars or some shit, he's clearly not good enough for nightly comedy anymore.

He's just not funny. At all. Hasn't been for about 10 years now. The NBC exec. of programming just came out and called O'Brien "gutless" because of how O'Brien has been acting on his show, fuck NBC Conan's better than all of them. Here's a few of O'Brien's jokes that I can remember from the past few nights.

"There's been a rumor going around that NBC is so mad at me that they're gonna try to keep me off the air for 3 years after I get released from the contract. I've got an idea; if NBC doesn't want anybody to see me, leave me on NBC.

"But now kids, you know, I want to get serious for a minute. I grew up watching this show being hosted by Johnny Carson and it was always my dream to host the Tonight Show, one of the great franchises on television. So now I just want to say something, that if you really want something, it can be achieved by hard work and dedication; unless Jay Leno wants it too."

You can really see how bad Leno is in that piece with Kimmel. Jimmy's so quick on his feet and just runs comedic circles around Leno who doesn't even attempt a comeback. He even tries to cut him off at the end when Kimmel tells him to go back to tuning cars.

Originally Posted by Hoopymo

Conan is one of the only funny hosts I've seen actually, he's a fair bit better than letterman etc.

And he actually is a comedian too. He was a writer for the Simpsons and Saturday Night Live. Jimmy Kimmel's funny because he's never tried to be a comedian, he just is a normal guy who acts like an asshole to celebrities which is always nice to see.