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NBC to Conan O’Brien: Pants on Fire!

Filed under: Conan O'Brien , Jay Leno NBC is pissed at Conan O’Brien and claims he lied during his ” 60 Minutes ” interview. Network sources tell TMZ Conan was flat out wrong when he said NBC gave him the axe rather than Leno because Jay’s buyout would have been bigger. Sources say the… Read more

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It’s Time for Conan to Move On [Late Night Wars]

Yeah, Conan, we get it. You got screwed out of a job. Now that your ill-advised interview on 60 Minutes is over, it’s time to lay that to rest before your fans begin to turn against you. More

Conan O’Brien on 60 Minutes: What Becomes of the Broken Hearted

What’s another 37 minutes between friends? That’s how long into the broadcast 60 Minutes waited to air Steve Kroft’s interview with Conan O’B rien, the first time the former Tonight Show host appeared on television since February 20th. And while most of the juicy details had already been previewed — as it turns out, Conan would have handled this entire situation a bit differently than Jay Leno — the interview still held some surprises. Namely, how the Great Late Night War of 2010 left the nominally unwavering Coco fairly damaged.

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Conan O’Brien on NBC– It Was ‘Toxic’

Filed under: Conan O'Brien , Jay Leno Conan O’Brien says he wouldn’t have done what Jay Leno did to him — and that there was nothing NBC could have done to repair his relationship with the network. Conan sat down with “60 Minutes” to discuss the ” Tonight Show ” fiasco and how he felt he… Read more

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CBS Finally Releases Video Evidence of Conan O’Brien Interview

Because of a clause in his termination contract, Conan O’B rien was banned from appearing on televised interviews until May 1. But now? All bets are off! To celebrate, CBS — in their increasingly strong efforts to make sure you don’t actually tune-in to watch Conan O’B rien on 60 Minutes this Sunday — has released a video clip of the interview, the first evidence that Conan really should have thought of wearing a tie while talking to Steve Croft. Seriously, he looks like a mess. Anyway, click ahead to watch Coco say something you already read on Thursday.

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Conan O’Brien Denies That His Tonight Show Lost Money, Says He Is Still Angry

CBS has been throwing buckets of tasty Conan O’B rien quotes overboard this week, hoping to bait a younger 60 Minutes audience and bring its median age down to 50. Yesterday, the network cleverly released a Jay-bashing soundbite from this Sunday’s interview. And today’s delicious excerpt slices through the very argument NBC used to boot him from his time slot.

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David Letterman Visits Regis, Adds ‘Knockwurst’ to Anti-Leno Glossary

Though Regis Philbin is still battling Paul Shaffer and the New York skyline for most appearances on David Letterman’s Late Show , Letterman made only his third appearance on Regis’s morning hour today. “You can’t see that on Maury !” Regis hollers. The old friends chatted about local issues like Jay Leno and screwing over Conan — all while Kelly Ripa seemed further away the more she leaned in. That’s Chekhov sh*t right there. Dave repeats his squawky Leno impersonation and after the jump, we’ll see if he really added anything to the Tonight Show dialogue besides the word “knockwurst.”

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Is The Real Housewives of NYC More Effective as an Oral History?

With each week of expert analysis from Movieline’s Julie Miller, The Real Housewives of New York ‘s mosaic of glitz and gaucheness separates into pure shards. Jill’s the problem , Bethenny’s a bit put on , and no one ends up looking like a saint. But perhaps the issue with RHONY ‘s cast is their format: If they were characters in a piece of literature, would we be so cavalier to dismiss them? After piecing together bits from the Bravo blogs, it turns out we have the makings of a Victorian bildungsroman on our hands.

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The Return of Johnny Carson

While we wait for Bill Carter to finish writing the The Late Shift sequel, producers Basil Iwanyk ( Clash of the Titans ) of Thunder Road and Kevin J. Cleary of Content House are developing a miniseries about the drama between the Tonight Show ‘s first three hosts: Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson. The miniseries, called The King of Late Night , will be based on Robert Metz’s 1980 book The Tonight Show and will explore the behind-the-scenes drama that plagued the show’s hosts long before Jay Leno butted his chin in. [ Deadline ]

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Conan O’Brien on 60 Minutes: The First Leno-Bashing Excerpt

It’s been a big week for Conan O’B rien: he performed in LA , he cut Max Weinberg loose , and he made Time’s “100 Most Influential Glee Cast Members and World Leaders” list . Still, it’s all just prelude for O’B rien’s some-holds-barred interview with 60 Minutes this weekend. CBS just released an excerpt — what does the TBS -bound talk show host have to say?

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