Conan's Last Show

lukin2006

DewieCox wrote:

81 wrote:

you know, does the lead in really matter? maybe for the news it's important, but come 11:35 you are going to flip to the show you find more entertaining. people know letterman and conan and a lot of other shit is on at that hour. if they want to watch a late night talk show, they know they have conan and letterman to choose from and they know where to find both and they know which one they generally find more entertaining. Conan was not the answer. it's that simple.

I think the lead in explains why Leno got the best ratings all those years.

Then why didn't Dave take over the top spot the last 4 or 5 years, CBS seems to have the best lead in for the last few years. How long have they been number 1 for? NBC hasn't been number 1 since early 2000's.

Has it occurred to people that maybe those who are watching TV at 11:30 might not be the same folk that would enjoy Conan. If he goes to Fox he'll be on at 11:00 by the sounds of, that may be an even worse time slot for him. Just saying.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

lukin2006 wrote:

The Jeagler wrote:

musicismylife78 wrote:

the thing that ticks me off about your post and lenos statements about this mess is that he plays this innocent victim card. Leno was doing the tonight show for 11 years or whatever, having stolen it from letterman, let me remind you. Conan, whether you or I think so, is the current face of late night tv, whatever that is worth in todays climate. Conan moved his wife and kids, and his staff to la, literally across the country, then leno and nbc pull this punk move. Zucker, seems the epitome of corporate greed.

please...whatever you do, DON'T BLAME CONAN! :roll:

leno is garbage.

Well first of all I REALLY DON'T CARE WHO"S FAULT IT IS, but reality is Leno got better ratings. Also Conan insisted on the tonight show back in 2004, he got the show and did not get the ratiings, Leno saw an opening and got the show back, that's life. Why would anyone feal sorry for Dave, Jay, Conan or anyone that pulls in that kind of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

i dont feel sorry for any of them, but saying Conan got lower ratings is a huge oversimplification. there are many reasons for that.

lukin2006

PJPixie wrote:

chiquimonkey wrote:

PJPixie wrote:

Yeah, I have a sneaking suspicion ED and maybe the whole band, will show up tonight! I'm going to head out to Universal in a couple hours. Should be a crazy rainy madhouse there YAY!

oh cool! hope you can get in, and that the boys do show up!

I really doubt I'll be able to get in. The last few days the people with StandBy tickets have not made it in. And today being his last day, i'm sure there is no way. But I think it will be fun to head over there anyway. Kind of exciting. Conan has a serious fanbase. Kind of reminds me of PJ fans. They all queue up and watch Conan on their ipods, they all talk conan, they all have conan tshirts on! Good Stuff!

That might be the problem, Conan's fans are downloading his shows and watching him on IPODS instead of the TV.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

lukin2006 wrote:

Has it occurred to people that maybe those who are watching TV at 11:30 might not be the same folk that would enjoy Conan. If he goes to Fox he'll be on at 11:00 by the sounds of, that may be an even worse time slot for him. Just saying.

i agree with you there, except for the time thing. personally i think its better if Conan goes to another network where he wont have to water it down to get the Jay old people crowd. its not like young people dont watch tv at eleven.

The Juggler

lukin2006 wrote:

the thing that ticks me off about your post and lenos statements about this mess is that he plays this innocent victim card. Leno was doing the tonight show for 11 years or whatever, having stolen it from letterman, let me remind you. Conan, whether you or I think so, is the current face of late night tv, whatever that is worth in todays climate. Conan moved his wife and kids, and his staff to la, literally across the country, then leno and nbc pull this punk move. Zucker, seems the epitome of corporate greed.

please...whatever you do, DON'T BLAME CONAN! :roll:

leno is garbage.[/quote]

Well first of all I REALLY DON'T CARE WHO"S FAULT IT IS, but reality is Leno got better ratings. Also Conan insisted on the tonight show back in 2004, he got the show and did not get the ratiings, Leno saw an opening and got the show back, that's life. Why would anyone feal sorry for Dave, Jay, Conan or anyone that pulls in that kind of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.[/quote]

i was paraphrasing what leno said the other night about wanting people to not "blame conan"--as ridiculous as that sounds. letterman put it best when he noted that NOBODY is blaming conan, they're blaming jay.

you're oversimplifying this. conan's ratings were not good. but it took him a couple years to develop a consistent audience at 12:30. not sure why the same network that gave him that leeway before would automatically assume a whole new auidience would immediately take to his humor. part of the reason why his ratings were so low was because lenos ratings were abysmal at the 10pm slot. he had no lead in. true--his ratings were not great before lenos show started either. but that was when his show was in its infant stage and just geting off it's feet (it was actually still in that phase when nbc panicked this month too).

regarding conan insisting on the tonight show....again--over simplifying. actually not being completely honest. nbc told jay they wanted him to leave in 5 years because they thought his ratings would be slipping at that point. naturally, they wanted to lock conan up because he was really hotat the time and they were worried that he would jump to another network for a shot at a better timeslot. can you blame him? i can't.

so now nbc is in this mess that they created.

here's to hoping that this ruined jay's image enough for letterman to beat hima nd for conan to take a nice chunk of his ratings when he moves to fox.

fuck leno. i can't fathom his lowest common denominator comedy.

Kilgore_Trout

i dont really get this whole lead-in thing... am i alone in only turning the tv on when i know something i wanna watch is on? i sit down at 10, watch the daily show, conan, then colbert... bed time... get my news news and sports news in the morning... no lead-in necessary

i feel like this conversation is using language from 20 years ago... theres DVR and online shows now... if people LOVED conan as much as some are claiming now this would not have happened... not to start a fan-boy contest :geek:

i watched every night of the summer... and admittedly even ive been too busy for it lately... sorry coco... enjoy all that money!

norm

The Steve carrel bit was funny.

The Juggler

norm wrote:

The Steve carrel bit was funny.

its a shame more people didn't see Up In the Air though

norm

Conan is a classy dude

milarso

Neil Young and Ben Harper, but no PJ :(

covered in bliss

great ending! can anyone name all of the celebs?

The Juggler

covered in bliss wrote:

great ending! can anyone name all of the celebs?

in the band? .....ben harper, beck, a dude from zz top? wonder why young neil wasn't plaing.

aspoonfulweighsaton

covered in bliss wrote:

great ending! can anyone name all of the celebs?

I got Beck, Ben Harper, and Billy Gibbons. The chick looked awfully familiar. Someone help me out...

aspoonfulweighsaton

The Jeagler wrote:

covered in bliss wrote:

great ending! can anyone name all of the celebs?

in the band? .....ben harper, beck, a dude from zz top? wonder why young neil wasn't plaing.

I think Neil had to leave for the Haiti telethon right after playing.

Cliffy6745

Hell of an ending, Conan seemed to enjoy himself, hard not to when you are getting that kind of money to walk away. Seriously though, playing the guitar on Free Bird with Will Ferrell, ben harper, beck, gotta be zz top (dont know for sure, not a big fan) and others...

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

Neil Young playing FREEBIRD? that i would pay millions to see.

lukin2006

The Jeagler wrote:

lukin2006 wrote:

the thing that ticks me off about your post and lenos statements about this mess is that he plays this innocent victim card. Leno was doing the tonight show for 11 years or whatever, having stolen it from letterman, let me remind you. Conan, whether you or I think so, is the current face of late night tv, whatever that is worth in todays climate. Conan moved his wife and kids, and his staff to la, literally across the country, then leno and nbc pull this punk move. Zucker, seems the epitome of corporate greed.

please...whatever you do, DON'T BLAME CONAN! :roll:

leno is garbage.

Well first of all I REALLY DON'T CARE WHO"S FAULT IT IS, but reality is Leno got better ratings. Also Conan insisted on the tonight show back in 2004, he got the show and did not get the ratiings, Leno saw an opening and got the show back, that's life. Why would anyone feal sorry for Dave, Jay, Conan or anyone that pulls in that kind of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.[/quote]

i was paraphrasing what leno said the other night about wanting people to not "blame conan"--as ridiculous as that sounds. letterman put it best when he noted that NOBODY is blaming conan, they're blaming jay.

you're oversimplifying this. conan's ratings were not good. but it took him a couple years to develop a consistent audience at 12:30. not sure why the same network that gave him that leeway before would automatically assume a whole new auidience would immediately take to his humor. part of the reason why his ratings were so low was because lenos ratings were abysmal at the 10pm slot. he had no lead in. true--his ratings were not great before lenos show started either. but that was when his show was in its infant stage and just geting off it's feet (it was actually still in that phase when nbc panicked this month too).

regarding conan insisting on the tonight show....again--over simplifying. actually not being completely honest. nbc told jay they wanted him to leave in 5 years because they thought his ratings would be slipping at that point. naturally, they wanted to lock conan up because he was really hotat the time and they were worried that he would jump to another network for a shot at a better timeslot. can you blame him? i can't.

so now nbc is in this mess that they created.

here's to hoping that this ruined jay's image enough for letterman to beat hima nd for conan to take a nice chunk of his ratings when he moves to fox.

fuck leno. i can't fathom his lowest common denominator comedy.[/quote]

Then why would NBC not just let Leno go. After they pulled him off the tonight they could have kept him off the air for 18 months. I still think if they gave him the same time frame as Conan (7 months) he would have left, 18 months thats a long time off the air.

As far as blame, ultimately NBC is at fault and only time will tell if they made the correct decision.

mca47

Awesome show!

Gonna miss you Conan. I just hope you can come back and beat NBC down!

Fuck you Leno, Fuck you NBC!

SPEEDY MCCREADY

mca47 wrote:

Awesome show!

Gonna miss you Conan. I just hope you can come back and beat NBC down!

Fuck you Leno, Fuck you NBC!

Gonna miss him???

He will be on Fox in about 4-6 weeks.....

Right????

Cliffy6745

What's really funny about this whole situation...is that Leno is just not funny....In fact he is the furthest thing from funny and I hope his show sucks balls.