Jimmy Kimmel, David Letterman jab at Jay Leno

Jimmy Kimmel was a guest on “The Late Show with David Letterman” Tuesday night (March 16). Three guesses what they talked about.
The two late-night hosts rehashed Kimmel’s role in eating Jay Leno’s lunch in January, shortly after NBC announced it was moving Leno back to late night and Conan O’Brien was

Conan O’Brien and FOX: ‘We’ll get there’

Talks between Conan O’Brien and FOX about launching a late-night show are getting more serious.

The network and O’Brien have been talking ever since O’Brien lost his “Tonight Show” job in January, and now several reports say the negotiations are getting a little more serious. Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of FOX parent News Corp., has given [...]

Conan O’Brien live tour is a go

The rumored Conan O’Brien stage tour is no longer a rumor.
O’Brien, whose exit from “The Tonight Show” and NBC bars him from taking another TV job until September, will launch “The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour” in Eugene, Ore., on April 12. He, sidekick Andy Richter and his “Tonight Show” band led [...]

Andy Richter: Not a fan of NBC

Former “Tonight Show” sidekick Andy Richter is technically still an NBC employee, but he’s not toeing the company line.
Richter was a guest host on “Live with Regis and Kelly” Tuesday (March 9), and Kelly Ripa wasted no time in asking him about the “hullaballoo” surrounding Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight Show” exit.
“I can actually be on TV,” [...]

Conan O’Brien live: Tickets (maybe) on sale

Conan O’Brien’s stage show may be getting close to reality — so close, in fact, that tickets were briefly available Friday.
That’s according to TMZ, which notes that Ticketmaster had a listing for Conan O’Brien performing live at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix on April 30. (Incidentally, that’s also the venue for the first stop on [...]

Jay Leno’s late-night return outdraws Letterman

Jay Leno’s first night back as host of “The Tonight Show” was a good one ratings-wise, but no one is proclaiming him the “returning king of late night” just yet.
“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” scored a 6.6 million viewers, according to fast national numbers from Nielsen, and a 1.6 rating in adults 18-49. Those [...]

Conan O’Brien joins Twitter, almost instantly passes Jay Leno

Conan O’Brien, who made fun of Twitter a whole bunch during his “Tonight Show” stint, has joined Twitter.
The sum total of his output (Twitter has verified it’s actually O’Brien) as of 6 p.m. PT Wednesday is a single tweet: “Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.” [...]

Conan O’Brien may take to the stage

Conan O’Brien can’t appear on TV until September, but he may have hit on a way to let people see him before then.
According to a couple of reports, O’Brien is considering mounting a live stage show that would hit several cities and keep him in front of fans while he waits out the terms of [...]

So long, Jay Leno. See you later (around 11:30, to be exact)

Remember Sept. 14, 2009? Things were simpler then. The fall TV season was about to begin, every new show was a possible hit, and the television world was buzzing about a plucky newcomer who had the potential to change prime-time TV forever.
We’re speaking, of course, of Jay Leno.
So, uh, yeah, that didn’t work out [...]

Conan O’Brien: Have you seen this host on NBC sites?

Where’s Conan O’Brien? Not hanging around NBC and its websites, that’s for sure.
Not only has O’Brien vacated “The Tonight Show” premises, but NBC has made sure all traces of his short run have been expunged from the Internet and anywhere else in their sphere of influence.
O’Brien’s last night hosting “The Tonight Show” was Friday, Jan. [...]

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