If you thought you’d had a few too many beers seeing Jay Leno, Oprah Winfrey, and David Letterman all sharing a sofa during a Super Bowl commercial, don’t worry. It really did happen!
The spot, a commercial for The Late Show, is the biggest TV ad shocker of the Super Bowl, surpassing Tim Tebow with ease.
Letterman and Leno snipe at each other with mock-annoyance, with Dave mimicking Leno’s high-pitched voice. Oprah tries to calm the boys.
Now this is damage control for Leno: Agreeing to appear in a CBS Late Show ad while he’s still finishing out his NBC 10 p.m. show is the coolest thing Jay has done in… ages.
If it also makes Dave the publicity victor — after all, it is a commercial for his show, not the Leno Tonight Show — you have to hand it to Jay for playing along, probably as a slap at the way NBC handled the whole Tonight Show mess.
Now you’ve seen it: What do you think?
source: How the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Super Bowl Ad Came Together [ny times]
You know how Jay Leno has that “Earn Your Plug” segment on ‘The Jay Leno Show’ (weeknights, 10PM ET on NBC)? Jessica Biel definitely earned her plug on last night’s show.
[video will begin after a short and annoying commercial]
Oh, the chocolate-covered strawberries were a treat, and even the chocolate-covered pizza wasn’t so bad. But when she fearlessly ate the chocolate-covered cricket that Jay brought out, he was downright impressed! I, on the other hand, was utterly disgusted!
Catch Biel in the star-studded ‘Valentine’s Day,’ in theaters Feb. 12.
With all the drama surrounding Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien it is time to take a look at the most hated comedians of all time and as you guess, Leno is indeed one of these comedians.
Jay Leno:
Why he’s hated: He’s poisonous prune juice.
Jay Leno is the inspiration for this list. He is everything a comedian shouldn’t be. His material hasn’t been funny for years, it’s is dumbed-down for a crowd that doesn’t want be challenged intellectually, and in the brotherhood of comedians, he betrayed his brethren by selling Conan down the river. Jay Leno is the runaway winner on this list.
Jeff Dunham:
Why he’s hated: Racist puppets.
If Jeff Dunham wasn’t a comedian, he would probably be a Klan leader. The man is so racist, and so crude, that anyone laughing at his jokes should be ashamed of themselves. Thankfully Comedy Central mercifully canceled The Jeff Dunham Show after one season. Using puppets to be racist makes everyone overlook that it’s not actually a racist puppet, but a racist comedian with his hand jammed up a puppet’s ass.
Carlos Mencia:
Why he’s hated: He’s a thief.
Not only does he steal jokes from classic comedians but he’s needlessly racist and had no sense of comedic timing whatsoever. Plagiarism and lack of comedic skills leads to him having a television show on Comedy Central. Where he continues to plagiarize and mock every promising comedian on the planet.
Dane Cook:
Why he’s hated: Insufferable prick.
Dane Cook wasn’t always hated. In fact, he was actually liked at one point. He was just catapulted to fame so fast, that he didn’t have nearly enough material to sustain himself as a consistently funny comedian. Instead of telling jokes, he just degraded into becoming the douchiest man in all of comedy. He had one of the worst specials HBO ever aired, and his trademark “superfinger” made everyone want to just give him the regular finger.
Rosie O’Donell:
Why she’s hated: She starts shit with everybody.
It’s one thing to be outspoken, but there is also a breaking point. Rosie O’Donell—while a good comedienne—simply can not stop picking fights. In her time, she has had very public feuds with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Donald Trump, her publisher, Star Jones, and Barbara Walters . Everybody loves a good feud, but at this point, people are growing weary of her antics.
George Lopez:
Why he’s hated: Somehow flipped tired, racist jokes into a career.
George Lopez, if anything, gives hope to people who want to be famous but have absolutely nothing to offer. George Lopez literally brings nothing to the table except jokes about how Latino, black, and white people differ from one another. If you want to see someone be on point about racist issues, just watch Dave Chapelle. In fact, watch Dave Chapelle, then watch George Lopez immediately after. You will see such a large gap in comedic sensibilities that you will become angry. Angry at the fact that not only did George Lopez have a terrible sitcom for 6 years on ABC, but now has a terrible late night talk show. And they’re both successful. There is no justice in this world.
Carrot Top:
Why he’s hated: Stupid props.
It seems that every new moon Carrot Top takes a break from working out to go to The Tonight Show, manically grab props out of a bag, (an ashtray attached to a bottle for redneck moms? HA!) and then promptly recede back to the gym to work on his delts.
Sarah Silverman:
Why she’s hated: She uses crudeness as a crutch.
A lot of people like Sarah Silverman, but she definitely deserves a place on this list. There are plenty of comedians that are cruder, blunter, more disgusting, and funnier than Silverman. Only they will never even sniff the success that Silverman has attained. So why did she become successful and they didn’t? Because she’s Jewish, she’s attractive (but not afraid to wear a wacky mustache in public!), and she says “fuck” a lot while talking about taboo subjects.
Gallagher :
Why he’s hated: He’s the original Carrot Top.
A man who built his reputation on an act that isn’t even remotely funny. His humor was mainly physical, and when he did actually use words to make jokes, they were terrible. Like his famous bit on how T-O-M-B and C-O-M-B are pronounced differently. What a riot!
But what makes Gallagher even worse is how poorly he’s aged. Just check out his recent interview with The Onion’s AV Club. He comes off as jaded, old, bitter, racist, obnoxious, and most of all not funny. This is a man who became famous for smashing watermelons calling the current comedy landscape “mediocre and boring.” That alone right there should merit him a spot on this list.
What comedians do you love and hate? I agree with this list completely because I hate all of these people.
source: The Most Hated Comedians of All Time [Gawker]
Law & Order : SVU’s Mariska Hargitay is blaming Jay Leno and NBC for the reason that SVU’s ratings have took a dip.
SVU has always received over 10 million viewers but the show, which is now in it’s 11th Season was moved from Tuesday nights at 10:00 pm to Wednesday night at 9:00 pm in September 2009, is now getting between 8 and 9 million each week.
Mariska is blaming NBC and The Jay Leno Show for this reason, she tells the new issue of More Magazine “It ruined our numbers,” she says bluntly. “The first four episodes, we were considerably down because nobody knew when the show was on. Finally, we’re starting to find our audience again.†Given Leno’s disappointing ratings, she hopes “we go back to where we belong. It was doing so well. Why mess with it?”
I wonder if NBC regret all the decisions they have made in the past year? I also wonder if they regret still having Heroes on the air. But Heroes is a whole different subject (seriously how is that crap still going?). Jay Leno should just go hide in a hole because the hate for him is not dying down.
Jeff Zucker talked to the NY Times about the NBC/Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno kerfuffle and came out with this response: “We Didn’t Have Time to Make Everyone Happy”. Nice one.
Couldn’t he have tried to make at least some of us happy? Instead, NBC has opted to kiss the chin butt of former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno.
In the interview, Zucker said that he has been receiving death threats over ditching O’Brien and called it merely a “business decision”.
Sure, it’s nothing personal after you and your staff have uprooted all of your families to move out here to tape a show. Nothing personal at all.
Zucker admitted that NBC had tried to find a compromise solution. But O’Brien didn’t seem interested, he said.
“Ultimately he couldn’t get his head around it,” Zucker said, according to a Twitter report from Broadcasting & Cable. “We didn’t have all the time and all the room to make everyone happy.”
Twitter reaction to Zucker’s interview indicated that Rose may have been unusually tough on Zucker, asking at one point whether his company was “in shambles.”
Zucker said, “We made a business decision here, and so we believe we’ve made the right business decision. We think that Jay, who was the ratings champ in late night for almost 15 years, will go back to 11:35 and be successful.”
Coco had it right with this little bit:
What do you think?
source: Zucker on Conan: ‘We Didn’t Have Time to Make Everyone Happy’ (video) – [the wrap]
In a somewhat unexpected move, Conan O’Brien has told NBC that he will not agree to moving “The Tonight Show” to after midnight to get the network out of the hash they created by moving Jay Leno to prime time.
In the last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I’ve been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with real problems, I’ve been absurdly lucky. That said, I’ve been suddenly put in a very public predicament and my bosses are demanding an immediate decision.Six years ago, I signed a contract with NBC to take over The Tonight Show in June of 2009. Like a lot of us, I grew up watching Johnny Carson every night and the chance to one day sit in that chair has meant everything to me. I worked long and hard to get that opportunity, passed up far more lucrative offers, and since 2004 I have spent literally hundreds of hours thinking of ways to extend the franchise long into the future. It was my mistaken belief that, like my predecessor, I would have the benefit of some time and, just as important, some degree of ratings support from the prime-time schedule. Building a lasting audience at 11:30 is impossible without both.
But sadly, we were never given that chance. After only seven months, with my Tonight Show in its infancy, NBC has decided to react to their terrible difficulties in prime-time by making a change in their long-established late night schedule.
Last Thursday, NBC executives told me they intended to move the Tonight Show to 12:05 to accommodate the Jay Leno Show at 11:35. For 60 years the Tonight Show has aired immediately following the late local news. I sincerely believe that delaying the Tonight Show into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting. The Tonight Show at 12:05 simply isn’t the Tonight Show. Also, if I accept this move I will be knocking the Late Night show, which I inherited from David Letterman and passed on to Jimmy Fallon, out of its long-held time slot. That would hurt the other NBC franchise that I love, and it would be unfair to Jimmy.
So it has come to this: I cannot express in words how much I enjoy hosting this program and what an enormous personal disappointment it is for me to consider losing it. My staff and I have worked unbelievably hard and we are very proud of our contribution to the legacy of The Tonight Show. But I cannot participate in what I honestly believe is its destruction. Some people will make the argument that with DVRs and the Internet a time slot doesn’t matter. But with the Tonight Show, I believe nothing could matter more.
There has been speculation about my going to another network but, to set the record straight, I currently have no other offer and honestly have no idea what happens next. My hope is that NBC and I can resolve this quickly so that my staff, crew, and I can do a show we can be proud of, for a company that values our work.
While I’ve got no dog in this fight — I’ve seldom seen O’Brien’s show (old or new), haven’t watched Leno’s new show, and won’t watch “Tonight” regardless of who’s hosting it or when it’s aired — I’ve come around to O’Brien’s way of thinking.
NBC made a bad choice six years ago when it kicked the can down the road and set Leno’s premature retirement into motion. It compounded that error by putting Leno up against the other network’s prime time dramas, not only screwing the network’s affiliates but also seriously hampering O’Brien’s chances to succeed in the franchise he waited so long to inherit. One can certainly understand, then, O’Brien’s not wanting to be relegated back to the midnight slot and screw over Fallon in the process.
One presumes, then, that NBC will figure some way to buy him out of his contract and that O’Brien will do what David Letterman did in a similar situation years ago: Move to another network and compete against “Tonight.” Fox has already issued a statement saying they’d love to have him.
Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien, who’ve both been unexpectedly moved from their time slots by NBC, took turns bashing the network on their shows last night.
Leno, on at 10, went first. “But you know, we’re not just a show anymore, we are now a collector’s item,” he jokes.
“As you may already know, our show has been canceled, fired again. See that shows you NBC’s got nothing, even when they fire you it’s a rerun. Didn’t we just get fired in May?”
Conan got his chance on ‘The Tonight Show.’ “You keep that up,” he says after some audience claps, “and this show won’t start until 12:05,” alluding to his possible new time.
O’Brien took over ‘Tonight’ from Leno in 2009, and NBC moved Jay to a daily show that starts at 10.
But low ratings for ‘The Jay Leno’ show prompted anger from many affiliates whose nightly news casts were suffering, causing the network to announce they were putting Jay back on at 11:35, shifting Conan and Jimmy Fallon to 12:05 and 1:05 respectively.
David Letterman, who stands to lose some of his new-found audience when Jay Leno returns to the 11:35 p.m. time slot, had this to say:
“I’m a little worried about Conan. I’m not worried about Jay, he’ll land on his chin, he always does.”
David Letterman for the win!
source: David Letterman ‘Not Worried About Jay, He’ll Land on His Chin’ [popeater]
Apparently, if Jay Leno were a sinking ship, then NBC would be the captain going down with him. The network tried movie the chinned one to the 10PM time slot, but it wasn’t working out.
Once vacated, the 11:30PM time slot was given to Conan O’Brien. Now that NBC is catering to Jay and moving him back to his original time slot, where does that leave Conan and his huge following?
Hopefully, if they’re smart, they’ll give the boot to Jimmy Fallon give his slot to Conan. Let’s hope that after they announced their decision, that they’re listening to the public and have no plans to oust Conan. His fans will follow him and Jay’s show will be left to go down with the ship.
What are your thoughts?
Update: After NBC has given Leno back his time slot, that leaves Conan out in the cold a bit. Sources say that if Conan doesn’t want to go on the air for a half hour, that he could make NBC pay out his contract, worth $80 million, and then relax on the beach some.
Either that, or he could take the time slot and not give Leno any competition and keep his NBC job. The third option would be to go to FOX and get paid $15 million a year, with NBC forking over another $5 million per year to makeup for his lost wages.
source: NBC Shakeup — Jay Leno Comes Out on Top – [tmz]
Have you seen Conan O’Brien hosting the Tonight Show on NBC? No? Don’t worry your not alone because the ratings have been beyond dire and NBC are taking notice.
In fact they are taking so much notice that they are considering just giving Conan his pink slip and replacing him with none other than their former king of comedy Jerry Seinfeld.
Seinfeld hasn’t worked with NBC since 1998, after he had a nine year run with them for his hit show, but he is the top man on their wish list of new presenters to take over the failing TV show.
A source said “”NBC just can’t carry on like this. ‘The Tonight Show’ has lost 52 percent of its viewership in just one year. The November ratings will be the show’s lowest in 15 years. They would be idiots to not be having the replacement conversation.”
I knew as soon as Jay Leno left the Tonight Show the whole night time TV would fall apart and it has, ratings all across the board are horrendous. I’m not saying Leno is the best thing but when a formula that has been working for years is changed people are going to either love it or hate it and everyone has decided on the latter.
What do you think?
source: Conan O’Brien Out, Jerry Seinfeld In? [Popeater]
Night time talk show queen Chelsea Handler is baring all for the December issue of “Playboy” magazine as the cover girl for their holiday issue.
She revealed the cover for the first time on Jay Leno’s show last night, saying that her dad is going to love the shoot, because “he thinks she’s very sexual.” What? Am I the only one thinking that there’s something wrong with that statement?
She says that in lieu of working out for the shoot, she quit drinking for “like a day and a half.” Funny! I love this woman, she’s so snarky, it’s hilarious.
Check out this funny video from Jay Leno last night:
Her dad sounds like a total perv. What creepiness. But I’m sure the rest of you guys will enjoy this.
[Click thumbnails for a larger view]
source: Chelsea Handler: Playboy’s Biggest Issue Ever? – [e-online]
