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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.

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