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Late Night Wars - Conan's last Tonight Show was TONIGHT a long time ago

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TheGreatDave said:
In the UK, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is funded by a licence fee and does not screen adverts. On the commercial channels, the amount of airtime allowed by the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom for advertising is an overall average of 7 minutes per hour, with limits of 12 minutes for any particular clock hour (8 minutes per hour between 6pm and 11pm).
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And you proved my point, thanks. :)
 
NBC put up some more stuff on their store (it's still backordered) but it's also 20% off with CONAN20 code.

When applied it says this :lol


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Conan Late Night shotglasses are only $2.something! I ordered half a dozen :lol Got raped on the price of the tumblers and shipping though, but who cares?
 
Chinner said:
i feel sorry for you americans. i catched some of your tv aqnd you have adverts every 4 mins. fucking horrible/
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I hate it when they have the advert breaks placed so that you get the end of the last program and the very start of the next program back to back, but then it cuts back into adverts before the shows title sequence.
 
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
Boo.... The shirts don't have extra large. So much for that. :(
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What were they thinking? We're talking about Conan fans here, 3XL should have been the minimum largest size available! They should at least have a size that would fit on Louis C.K.'s frame. That should be the standard! :lol
 
Looks like Letterman switched to Team Leno! :lol

I can't even imagine how they managed to get those three together on one couch. I feel like Leno had to have been superimposed unless he flew out to New York.
 
omg rite said:
Looks like Letterman switched to Team Leno! :lol

I can't even imagine how they managed to get those three together on one couch. I feel like Leno had to have been superimposed unless he flew out to New York.
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Money talks.
 
I just watched that Freebird jam. Ferrell can't sing, but holy shit at Conan. I did NOT know that he could play the guitar like that. I mean, he's not super-amazing or anything, but by celebrity standards, he's a goddamn Hendrix.
 
Chamber said:
Money talks.
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True. I mean I think it'd be harder to get Letterman to do it as he's been the angry one over the years.

I'll have to watch it again. The idea of Letterman flying to LA or Leno flying to NY just for that seems silly.
 
Hilarious conspiracy theory time:

What if this was recorded before the whole Late Night Wars thing? Jay appearing on a commercial for Conan's competition. :lol
 
Seraphis Cain said:
Hilarious conspiracy theory time:

What if this was recorded before the whole Late Night Wars thing? Jay appearing on a commercial for Conan's competition. :lol
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According to a press release it was taped earlier this week at the Ed Sullivan Theater.
 
Technosteve said:
man he must be really trying to score points with the public
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beermonkey@tehbias said:
Jay (and NBC which had to give permission) trying really hard to look like a nice guy.
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Except it was David's idea. So relax on the Jay = Satan stuff tonight, please.

Only a matter of time before someone posts that David somehow betrayed Conan.
 
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.c...erman-oprah-leno-super-bowl-ad-came-together/

How the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Super Bowl Ad Came Together
By BILL CARTER

Jay and Dave together? Could it be true?

It is, and there they were, Jay Leno and David Letterman sitting on a couch – with Oprah Winfrey between them - upstairs at the Ed Sullivan Theater, where Mr. Letterman tapes his show.

The spot was shot last Tuesday afternoon, under the strictest of secrecy which involved both Mr. Leno and Ms. Winfrey flying in surreptitiously to New York, and arriving incognito at the theater, while Mr. Letterman was in the midst of taping his show for that night. It also involved Jay wearing a disguise: hooded sweatshirt, glasses and faux mustache. If you happened to be on Broadway between 53rd and 54th street last Tuesday about 4:15, you might have seen a man fitting that description slip into the theater by a small entrance under the marquee.

According to staff members of the “Late Show with David Letterman” who were on the scene that day - including the executive producer Rob Burnett – it all happened because Mr. Letterman had an idea he thought would be truly funny: a Super Bowl ad that featured the two longest-running adversaries in late night, sitting with Ms. Winfrey as though at a Super Bowl party.

What gave the idea extra spin, of course, was that the relationship between Mr. Letterman and Mr. Leno has been especially fractious of late in the wake of NBC’s moves that led to the departure of Conan O’Brien from the “Tonight” show and Mr. Leno’s impending return to the show, where he will once again go head to head with Mr. Letterman.

In the weeks since the decision was announced, Mr. Letterman had been notably acerbic in his on-air jokes about Mr. Leno, suggesting he was a schemer in some way in the moves that led to the changes in late night, and Mr. Leno had responded with jokes about Mr. Letterman’s well-covered romantic entanglements.

That added to the surprise viewers encountered when the ad came up and there the two comics were, flanking Ms. Winfrey, in essence for a promotion for Mr. Letterman’s show.

As Mr. Burnett described it, Mr. Letterman had the idea to invite Mr. Leno to participate, playing off a similar ad he put together with Ms. Winfrey the last time CBS had the Super Bowl in 2007. “Dave wrote the bit himself,” Mr. Burnett said. “He just thought: it’s the Super Bowl, you’re supposed to entertain people.”

Steps were takes to contact Ms. Winfrey, who agreed immediately, Mr. Burnett said, and then Mr. Leno. Mr. Burnett said he spoke with Mr. Leno’s executive producer, Debbie Vickers. “She asked if this was for real and then she laughed for about 10 minutes,” Mr. Burnett said.

Mr. Leno quickly agreed, but the idea had to be passed by the top NBC executives, including the chief executive, Jeff Zucker. Permission was granted.

Mr. Leno was able to get Tuesday free – NBC had rearranged its schedule to pre-empt his 10 p.m. show that night - and took the NBC corporate jet, Mr. Burnett said. There seemed little chance though that Mr. Leno could sneak into Mr. Letterman’s theater unseen, so the idea was hatched to try to sneak him in during a live taping - in disguise.

Both guests turned up while Mr. Letterman was on stage doing his show. They were kept in a secret green room until the show was over and the theater was cleared. Then Mr. Leno and Ms. Winfrey went up to the theater balcony where a living room set was fashioned with a faux TV and a couch.

Mr. Letterman arrived a short time later. The two late-night rivals greeted each other warmly, Mr. Burnett said. “It was very friendly, very professional, totally cordial,” he said. “You could tell these were two guys who have known each other for a long time.”

The idea Mr. Letterman came up with was for him to be first seen alone, complaining about being at the worst Super Bowl party ever - then to be seen in a two-shot with Ms. Winfrey as he had been in 2007, with her telling him to be nice. And then Mr. Leno would be revealed at the other end of the couch saying that Mr. Letterman was only complaining because he was there.

Mr. Letterman followed doing a mock-Jay voice. The entire spot was shot quickly and efficiently, Mr. Burnett said. “I’d say it took no more that 20 or 30 minutes,” he said.

“I think everybody wanted to do it just because they all knew it would get attention and they all just wanted to do something funny.”

After the taping was completed, Mr. Letterman thanked his guests and they said a cordial goodbye, Mr. Burnett said. The two stars slipped back out into the Manhattan night, Mr. Leno back in his faux mustache.

“This wasn’t done to help Dave or to help Jay,” Mr. Burnett said, “though I think it does help both of them. It was just done because Dave thought it would be funny and would entertain people. Nothing went beyond that.”
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Ninja Scooter said:
maybe this will make some of you freaks lighten up and realize the whole situation wasn't as life and death as you guys make it out to be.
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FUCK DAVE MAN! HE'S A TRAITOR!
HOW DARE HE APPEAR IN A COMMERCIAL WITH OPRAH!
 
Ninja Scooter said:
maybe this will make some of you freaks lighten up and realize the whole situation wasn't as life and death as you guys make it out to be.
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Not until I see a Conan/Dick Ebersol commercial.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
maybe this will make some of you freaks lighten up and realize the whole situation wasn't as life and death as you guys make it out to be.
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There are a few... certain... people who will never understand that. :[
 
Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
This ad was a disgrace to television. One of these men NEED to die soon.
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Personally, I wouldn't mind if Oprah just kind of stopped sticking her head into every issue, no matter who's drastically wrong or tremendously right.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
if he had been on the couch he the ratings for the commercial would have tanked, and then Conan fans would have whined that the Super Bowl wasn't a good enough lead in.
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Ok, even as a firm Team Conan member, this is pretty :lol
 
SpeedingUptoStop said:
Personally, I wouldn't mind if Oprah just kind of stopped sticking her head into every issue, no matter who's drastically wrong or tremendously right.
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Except, again, this was Dave's idea. Not Oprah's.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
if he had been on the couch he the ratings for the commercial would have tanked, and then Conan fans would have whined that the Super Bowl wasn't a good enough lead in.
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Aight, that's funny.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
if he had been on the couch he the ratings for the commercial would have tanked, and then Conan fans would have whined that the Super Bowl wasn't a good enough lead in.
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This is some vintage Ninja Scooter right here.
 
omg rite said:
How was having Leno on the show Oprah being "wrong"?
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good lord, are we really going to have to talk about this again? He went on there to try and save face, and he still came off like a dick to many. And I already know what you're going to reply, so: Oprah's audience will do whatever Oprah tells them too, that's why they're much more sympathetic for him now.
 
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