‘Everyone’s got their own, you know, way of doing things,’ he says during the interview, airing Sunday night. By Eric Ditzian Conan O’Brien Photo: Michael Buckner/ Getty Images We’ve already heard Jay Leno’s side of things when it comes to his late-night feud with Conan O’Brien over the the keys to “The Tonight Show.” Now it’s O’Brien’s turn for a little on-camera venting in an interview with “60 Minutes.” According to excerpts released by CBS News , the comedian is not holding anything back. “He went and took that show back, and I think in a similar situation, if roles had been reversed, I know … I know me, I wouldn’t have done that,” O’Brien said. “If I had surrendered ‘The Tonight Show’ and handed it over to somebody publicly and wished them well and then … six months later. But that’s me, you know. Everyone’s got their own, you know, way of doing things.” What would O’Brien have done instead? “Done something else, go someplace else,” he said. “I mean, that’s just me.” O’Brien is currently on a 32-city live show sweep across North America with his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour . In a shocking turn earlier this month, the displaced NBC host inked a deal with TBS to launch a new late-night show on the cable network rather than, as had been widely presumed, a show on Fox. As the NBC brouhaha flared up at the start of the year, O’Brien said he came to realize that his relationship with the network had been irrevocably damaged. “I think this relationship is going be toxic, and maybe we just need to go our separate ways,” he said. “That’s really how it felt to me … and I started to feel that I’m not sure these people even really want me here. … I can’t do it [anymore].” The full “60 Minutes” interview will air Sunday at 7 p.m. ET. Related Photos Conan O’Brien’s ‘Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television’ Tour Invades L.A. If Conan O’Brien Worked At MTV Highlights From The 2010 Time 100
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Conan O’Brien Talks Jay Leno On ’60 Minutes’: ‘I Wouldn’t Have Done That’
