The first ding ding kicking of 2010 hands down goes to the clueless morons at NBC. Late last week news broke out on TMZ that Jay Leno, who is failing miserably at the 10pm/9 Central timeslot, would be moved to 11:35pm after the Olympics, while leaving Conan O'Brien out in the cold. At times it sounded like O'Brien was going to be fired. Things are still not final, but after speaking with a news director of an NBC affiliate in town, it looks like Leno will be on at 11:35, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien will air at 12:05, and doucebag Fallon airs at 1:05.
So why do they get kicked in the ding ding? The way the shit went down. It sounded like O'Brien was going to pay for the sins of Leno; Leno would get rewarded for sucking royal donkey balls in prime time; and it all came out of nowhere.
Even though Leno isn't fully at fault for sucking in prime time, he's gonna get kicked in the ding ding too. The whole mess began several years ago, when Leno announced that he'd retire from The Tonight Show and hand it over to Conan O'Brien. He cited that he wanted to leave early so he'd have time to do other things. As a consequence of this decision, the wheels got turning for the transition: new set, ending Late Night, replacing O'Brien with Fallon, uprooting families from New York to LA. Before the end of the Leno era in the Tonight Show, Leno began to pull a Brett Farve. Because of this, the incompetent executives at NBC scrapped the traditional prime time lineup to keep the whining Leno from becoming competition. His sucking in prime time led to lower turnouts for local news, therefore affiliates complained. Now NBC has to clean up from their experimental mess.
The only difference between Leno & Farve is that at least Farve pulling a Farve didn't affect the lives of many families--familes who happened to move from one coast to the other.
What about Conan? What really pissed me off was at a time where O'Brien's fate was unknown, Leno actually had the audacity to joke about it...saying "Fox looks good this time of year" if NBC cancelled him and his crap show. On top of that NBC executives sent statement after statement praising Leno, not so much for their commitment for keeping O'Brien.
In the end, no matter who you are and how much power you hold over people's lives, YOU DON'T FUCK WITH A MAN AND FAMILIES THAT WAY! You don't completely uproot people, relocate them many miles away, tell them they'd be there for years, and then out of the blue tell them to fuck off.
So for reasons mentioned here, fuck NBC, their executives, and Jay Leno, and accept the first kicking of the ding ding of 2010.
Craig Ferguson is still the funniest host of late night television! Suck on that, bitches!
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