January 2010
8 posts
The Late Night Distemper of Our Times →
Fantastic article from WFMU about late-night chaos throughout history. Among other things, it details how NBC has, in fact, been fucking up The Tonight Show since 1954. They ordered Steve Allen to leave the show he created, angered Jack Paar enough that he quit the show mid-episode, and, of course, famously installed Jay Leno against Johnny Carson’s and pretty everyone else’s wishes....
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Great clip from 2004 of Leno announcing that he’s giving his show to Conan.
“This show is like a dynasty — you hold it, then you hand it off to the next person. I don’t want to see all the fighting, and all the ‘who’s better’, nasty things back and forth in the press. So right now, here it is: Conan, it’s yours. See you in...
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