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UYGUR: Ana. >> KASPARIAN: Yes?
>> UYGUR: What's the latest on Leno versus Conan?
>> ANA: Okay. First of all both of them are going on their own television shows and they're
both taking little stabs at one another, right? >> UYGUR: Yes.
>> KASPARIAN: Leno's stabs are weak sauce, lame and unfunny, right? But Conan's stabs
are a little funny. >> UYGUR: I want to do both. I want to let
the audience decide. >> KASPARIAN: Okay.
>> UYGUR: Okay. So first, he is gay. >> KASPARIAN: Ha, ha, ha.
>> UYGUR: He's terrible. Everybody does a gay accent. Everybody can do one, apparently
except me. All right, so here's Leno going after another guy a little bit. Let's watch.
>> LENO: Critics of the war have stopped referring to it as another Vietnam, they're not calling
it anymore. The bad news, they're now calling it another NBC, that's recorded. Welcome across
NBC, America's most dysfunctional TV family, huh? Thank you very much. Well, nobody knows
what's going on. If Conan O'Brien understands, he'll be very upset. He had a statement on
paper yesterday and Conan said, "NBC had only given him seven months to make his show work."
When I heard that, seven months, how did he get that deal? We only got four. Dave, who's
his agent? Get me that guy. I'll take seven. Well, all the late night hosts are having
a great fun with this debacle. Last night Jimmy Kimmel did a show, dressed up as me.
Show that clip, here he is dress up like me. >> KIMMEL: My name is Jay Leno and, let it
hereby be known that I'm taking over all the shows in late night.
>> All right. >> LENO: Let's see what's coming up on our
late local news. Rick, Tonya. >> TONYA: Thanks a lot Jay. Coming up after
the Jay Leno show. An NFL player suffers his 17th concussion and is forced to become an
NBC executive. We have all the details. >> UYGUR: Yeah. I mean that, I got to be honest
upon a second watching that I swear I want [INDISTINCT].
>> It did, right from the start. Everything in there, you know, their calling it another
Vietnam they're call it another NBC. This didn't make any sense. It's like...
>> UYGUR: Yeah, and you saw that joke coming from a mile away and he almost wanted to stop
it like no, no, no, no don't, don't say NBC, ah, you said it.
>> Its funny, you know, the headline here is about they're taking shots at each other
and the one joke they use in that is the reference that, you know, that they--how did he got
that deal with seven months, I only got four. >> UYGUR: Uh-huh.
>> That's not really a shot at Conan. >> UYGUR: I agree. I agree.
>> Actually, that's not a shot at all and actually that's the line I kind of like. I
thought that's, that's at least a joke. >> UYGUR: Yeah. It's a little unfair to say
that Leno's going after Conan. But Conan was just waiting for any little thing to go after
Leno because what Leno's lying about--he's making jokes about NBC and I don't mind Leno,
right? It's just--he's getting a great deal here. Okay, he's, instead of getting cancelled
and gettin' walked out the door, he's getting the Tonight show back--he always wanted the
Tonight show back. So he's pretending that he's aggrieved when he's not at all aggrieved.
>> No, he's not aggrieved at all. And what is incredibly false about Jay Leno, what was
false when he got the--look, we're not--this aren't--we're not--these aren't six year olds
and everybody gets the equal amount of ice cream and the person who doesn't get the equal
amount gets to cry about it. >> UYGUR: Right.
>> I mean this is, these are big boys and no one as Conan said in his brilliant statement,
you know, don't shed a tear for me, for crying out loud.
>> UYGUR: Right, right. >> But I have been put in this awkward public
situation. So I have to respond. >> UYGUR: Right.
>> So no one needs to hold anyone's hand. But what Leno cannot do, what is disingenuous
and which I think strikes me is disingenuous and unauthentic and I think its striking,
pretty much universally everyone who pays attention to this as, is when he goes out
there after this all happens and says, you know, I mean I--you know, they're screwing
me, they're screwing Conan, I mean poor Conan--like Jay didn't sit there and this didn't happened
to Jay. He made this happened. >> UYGUR: Yeah.
>> He took Conan's job. Conan got the job, was promised it, did it for seven months the
ratings went down in part because of Jay's show.
>> UYGUR: Yeah. >> And then, now, Jay is not obligated to
let Conan keep that job, in no way. >> UYGUR: Right
>> What he needs to say is, yeah, look this didn't work out for me and these guys I'd
like that job back, it's not doing that well, I hate to push out a guy like Conan. He doesn't
even need to say that much. He just needs to say hey, we're all big boys, it's really
competitive, my ratings were better and I want this job back and I can't wait to start
broadcasting at 11:30 to America and guess what? Conan will be fine. But acting like
you care about Conan, acting like he cared about Dave in 1993 that was what the--you
know, when you read the late shift, Jay is a schever, he's a schemer and then, he's like
"oh, no, I'm every man, I'm George Bush, everybody loves me, have an Odules; I'm great!"
>> UYGUR: Yeah, and that's what gets on everybody's nerves.
>> Yeah. Yeah. >> UYGUR: So now let's go to Conan, going
after Jay Leno a little bit and he did go after him a little bit here. So let's watch.
>> O'BRIEN: You know, I'm trying very hard to stay positive here. And I want to tell
you something. This is honest. Hosting a Tonight show has been a fulfillment of a life long
dream for me. And I just want to say to the kids out there watching, you can do anything
you want in life--yeah, unless Jay Leno wants to do it too. You still using that? Because
I could now look at [INDISTINCT]. >> GERVAIS: You're having a good time sticking
it to NBC aren't you? >> O'BRIEN: Oh, no, no; I'm just staying here
having a good time. That's all I... >> GERVAIS: They did--they did. They deserve
it. But I will say this. >> O'BRIEN: Yes.
>> GERVAIS: I think I should plug all my stuff now in case they just take you off the air
like Mike Davis. >> O'BRIEN: Done.
>> GERVAIS: What you're going to do? >> O'BRIEN: I'll find something to do. I'm
sure. >> GERVAIS: Oh, really?
>> O'BRIEN: Yeah. >> GERVAIS: Okay.
>> O'BRIEN: Yeah. >> GERVAIS: You know I'm really worried about
it, because I saw that the effort was great. >> O'BRIEN: Yes.
>> GERVAIS: I feel for you. And I just think... >> O'BRIEN: Yes.
>> GERVAIS: ...you know, you've been treated badly, but what I don't--you got no discernable,
I'm not being funny this is--this is... >> O'BRIEN: Sure, of course, yes, yes.
>> GERVAIS: You got no discernable skill. >> UYGUR: Ricky Gervais is funny too.
>> On Letterman Tonight, Ricky Gervais said that--he said our good friend Ricky Gervais
will be hosting the Golden Globe's if Jay lets him.
>> UYGUR: That's what Letterman said. >> That's Letterman Tonight.
>> UYGUR: Okay, that's awesome. Now, by the way, why Conan's numbers went down because
of Leno which is what Ben said, is because Leno's number were so bad that the news programs
that followed him were also had bad ratings which led to bad ratings for Conan because
it all trickles down in television that way. So Conan...
>> Now, that said, I mean I suspected an equal some game. At this point, Leno would do better
than Conan. I mean that's simple. >> UYGUR: Yes, because he's going to get us
all the audience back, people are used to him et cetera.
>> Yes. >> UYGUR: So I get the NBCs decision on that--in
that term.