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It's Official

Well, it’s unfortunate but official, Conan O’Brien is leaving The Tonight Show with his last performance coming this Friday, January 22nd. For the past week, Conan has been opening the show with monologues fun filled with heavy hitting blows at NBC and Jay Leno, leaving you with this sense that his time is limited. On Tuesday, he opened by saying, “Hi, I’m Conan O’Brien and I’m just three days away from the biggest drinking binge in history.” Well the deal has been inked, which is said to be worth $45M. NBC will pay Conan about $32.5M and the rest will be divided amongst his staff. The deal also has some stipulations, like Conan will not be able to perform on air on any other network until September 2010. So, for all you Conan fans, you’ll have to Tivo or DVR his last 2 shows if you want to get your fix in the future.

Going Mobile

In a continued effort to bring you the Heavy Hitters of Comedy from anywhere in the world, we are excited to announce our new mobile website. If you own an iPhone, G-phone, Droid, or Blackberry, you now can view all of our Comedy Columns and Heavy Hitting News. You can also email your favorite columns and news beats to your friends. All you have to do is visit the website on your mobile phone, it’s really easy to use.

We are working on an iPhone application that will give you access to our directories, events, profiles, video and other features and services. Look for that later this year.

Conan or Jay

It’s not official, but it looks like Conan O’Brien will be leaving “The Tonight Show.” This is a complete disappointment to fans of the show as well as the fans of the franchise.

Last night on “The Jay Leno Show,” Jay decided to offer his point of view on the whole situation, which was an obvious attempt to selfishly save face. Unfortunately, it didn’t work for me! Remember the days, when entertaining an audience meant you actually had to entertain the audience? Boy, those were the days, but now it is all about reality TV moments. Here’s a nickels worth of free advice, “stop talking about your backstage business and just handle it!”

It took Jay a total of 3 and a half minutes of network television time to explain his view of the situation and guess what? It turns out it is completely NBC’s fault. How about that? Jay explained that NBC is unhappy with his shows performance, oh yeah, and Conan’s too.

This just in: Jeff Zucker, President of NBC has just commissioned a time machine and they are ready to go back in time. GREAT SCOTT MARTY!

Jay went on to explain that in 2007, NBC wanted to retain both Jay and Conan, and in an effort to not repeat the past (Jay Laughs), NBC offered Conan the “Tonight Show” job. Unfortunately, they gave Conan the job with 7 months left on Jay’s contract. NBC said “oops, our bad…hindsight is 20/20” and proceeded to repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot with a sawed-off comedy shotgun.

Here’s how the ship hit the iceberg, it was when NBC decided to move Jay Leno to prime-time instead of paying out the remainder of his contract. The reality is that “The Jay Leno Show” is scoring the low numbers that are affecting the affiliates.

My favorite thing about this big ass debacle is that Jay refers to being replaced by Conan as being fired. Just for the record, Jay has never been fired from NBC. He was repurposed. There’s a difference.

Well, thanks Jay for wasting my time last night, letting me in on how you see it. Your negotiation tactics are terrible. Are you looking for free legal advice or sympathy?

This is a complete disaster for NBC and just another example of why the network continues to be in last place. When Comcast purchases the network I hope heads roll.

Conan after 16 years of “The Late Show” and 7 months of “The Tonight Show,” NBC has decided to screw you over. They are going with Jay. I only hope your move is quick and successful and that you blow Jay out of the water. The game is on! Good luck.