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Conan O'Brien sure can hold a grudge, but I can't say I blame him. The funny man told the AP that while David Letterman reached out to him over the holidays, late night rival Jay Leno did not.O'Brien told reporters today that he and Letterman have "always been good." The CBS host just wanted to make sure that the past year's TV troubles hadn't created any tension between them.
Leno, who preceded then replaced O'Brien as host of 'The Tonight Show,' made no peace offerings to bring in the new year. "We all know the story," O'Brien said, shortly.
O'Brien's TBS show 'Conan' premiered in November to significant fanfare from his devoted fans, many of whom refer to themsleves as part of Team Coco. Despite this dynamic new late-night forum, rightfully bitter O'Brien still feels some sadness about no longer being a part of NBC, saying, "That company meant a lot to me."
See a clip of O'Brien discussing his Leno feud and NBC dismissal after the break.
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I think he really realized it when he did a skit visiting Houston, TX. He found out he was on at 2 or 3 AM.
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DEAR CONAN,
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU FEEL SO UPSET WITH LENO?? YOUR BEEF IS WITH NBC! NBC MUST HAVE BEEN AFRAID THEY WOULD LOSE YOU, SO THEY PROMISED YOU THE TONIGHT SHOW.... THEY THEN FORCED LENO INTO A VERY EARLY RETIREMENT. WHEN THEY REALIZED LENO WAS STILL ON TOP, THEY OFFERED HIM THE 10 PM SPOT... PEOPLE DID NOT WANT TO WATCH THE TONIGHT SHOW AT 10 PM AND SO THEY CANCELLED IT. BY THAT SAME TOKEN, YOU DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO GET SETTLED AND NBC WANTED TO SHARE THE SPOTLIGHT WITH THE 2 OF YOU. YOU THREW A HISSY FIT AND QUIT. THEY THEN GAVE THE SHOW BACK TO LENO. YOU ARE PISSED AT LENO FOR ACCEPTING A JOB THAT NBC SHOULD NEVER HAVE TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM. LENO WAS THE ORIGINAL "INJURED PARTY"
YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ANGRY WITH LENO. LENO SHOULD HAVE BEEN ANGRY WITH YOU FOR FORCING HIM OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
THE WAY YOU HAVE ACTED MADE ME SOUR ON "TEAM COCO." I WILL NOT BE WATCHING ON TBS! THEY PISSED ME OFF BY TOSSING MY "G LO" ASIDE AND GIVING YOU HIS 11 PM SPOT..PUSHING HIM TO MIDNIGHT! THE EXACT SAME THING THAT YOU QUIT NBC FOR AND BTW-- YOU LEFT WITH SEVERAL MILLIONS... PROBABLY MORE THAN 20 TIMES THE AMOUNT THAT THE AVERAGE AMERICAN EARNS IN THEIR LIFETIME. THAT JUST BLOWS MY MIND.
THIS IS ONLY MY WAY OF LOOKING AT THINGS.
TONIGHT I WILL BE DVR ING LENO & FALLON AS I DO EACH NIGHT! I LOVE THEIR SHOWS AND ENJOY THEIR MONOLOGUES.
ROBIN Z.
Conan was never any good and they shafted Leno to put him on late night and he failed, he failed so why is he blaming other for his failure. He is and always will be a BIG JERK!!!
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To bad Conan is a sore loser..Or should I say just a plain LOSER..He will never be any good ..He's boring Put that to a vote...and let him see the results
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Yeah NBC handled it badly. If Jay was supposed to leave, they never should have brought him back. That was their mistake. And yeah, I'll admit that Conan got screwed in that area. However, Conan needs to shut up and be happy for what he has. He wasn't any good on the Tonight Show anyway and after all that has happened he ended up with a big buy out, a ton of publicity and his own show on another network. Why exactly does he deserve sympathy? He doesn't. He's still riding this "poor me" publicity train and its pathetic. SHUT UP ALREADY!
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AMEN!!!
What a big baby he is!!! He should be kissing the stage he gets to walk on 5 nights a week! He needs to stop the martyr bit and MOVE ON!!!
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I'm so tried of the media covering the whole LEno/O'Brien debacle. O'Brien will always be the best and funniest talk show host, and the ratings show that. He's doing better than Leno and Letterman and his new show on TBS is perfect. He's the coolest guy and he can do no wrong now can we please shut up about this?
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Metaphysics decees that Cream will always float to the top. That happens in Dairies, Marriages, Depatment stores, Video rental stores and,,, Late night television. So as soon as this Conan yard sale is over.. let's get back to serious conversations,ans let him slide into the sunset. I doupt that he sill be seriously missed. Any more than we miss Stern on the normal radio waves.
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Grow up, Conan. See a therapist.
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Let it go Coco. LET IT GO. Success is the best revenge.
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Please take Conan's non-entertaing show off the air, or at least put it on after Lopez Tonight. Never liked him, still don't, can't see the talent or any reason for him to be on television.
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Conan should replace Letterman,...
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Leno should just be cancelled and replaced with something dumb like ABC. Leno is a grumpy old Italian.
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I'm on the brink of getting rid of AOL because of their weekly love offering to Conan No-talent. The majority have spoken and most people can't stand O'Brien. But a small bunch of elitists are trying to jam another version of "The Emperors New Clothes" down our throat.
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Conan is way too self centered, and is so busy trying to show everyone he's funny, that he screws up the show....
Hey Stupid, when you ask a guest a question, SHUT UP AND LET THEM ANSWER IT! You're so busy hogging the spotlight, that you ruin your own show....You were handed a fortune for absolutely nothing, and got all that publicity because you're a baby...Grow up and learn how to listen, before everybody else gets as tired of you as I am....
You'll never be a Carson or Letterman, so be happy you're not sweeping the sidewalks in some small town...By the way, why don't you donate some of that money to the needy....You couldn't possibly need it all for yourself...
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Conan who?
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I am team Conan all the way, but I am getting tired of AOL and Popeater constantly trying to start up something from nothing. Let it alone!
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Will this ever end! Who cares!
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Oh for the love of Pete Conan, stop whining and crying already! ENOUGH is ENOUGH..... If you didn't have the overly prolonged "feud", you'd have nothing. Stop living off of Jay Leno, who really did nothing to you in the first place, NBC did. Maturity would allow you to see that, but then again, it wouldn't be fruitful for you or your career to stop, would it?
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