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So, reports have continued to fly around all day, as reports are known to do, about the future of NBC’s late night schedule. Nikki Finke reported that Jeff Zucker was threatening to “ice” (almost certainly Zucker’s word, because yuck) Conan O’Brien, by holding him to a three-and-a-half-year no-compete clause in his contract. Meanwhile, People magazine was reporting that January 22nd might be the final broadcast of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. And just moments ago, TMZ delivered the news that Jay Leno has completed his deal with NBC to return to 11:35PM, for an hour, with a show called The Tonight Show. Gross.
The one bright spot in all of this is that the Internet continues to update Jeff Zucker’s Wikipedia page to reflect his death. Which is kind of hilarious. Today we are all 4chan. That’ll do, Internet. That’ll do.
UPDATE: Now, according to the Hollywood Reporter, NBC is denying TMZ’s report that it has made a deal with Leno? Zucker, of course, is still dead.
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Will somebody get on updating Jay Leno’s wikipedia page now?
i was much sadder when i thought this was one of the guys who made ‘airplane!’
I thought you were crossing out “Universal”… like…. you know what? Never mind. La la la!
That was also a thing I did.
Man! Making confessions feels great. It is sad how I’m a Jew and am only finding this out now.
was just reading (on Gawker) about how Zucker was a classmate of Conan’s, and were longtime rivals there. makes the scandal extra-douchey.
Explains alot. Excluded from the gang. Seeing that bouffant everyday, taunting him. Enough to drive a a man batty.
From the wiki page: “Zucker went on to Harvard University, serving as President of the school newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, during his senior year. As President of the Crimson, Zucker encouraged the decades-old rivalry with the Harvard Lampoon, headed by future NBC colleague Conan O’Brien. He graduated in 1986 with a B.A. in American History.”
That is … disgusting.
Hey, Videogum got name checked on Entertainment Weekly:
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/01/14/team-conan-is-taking-over-the-internet/
FAME MONSTERS
Woohoo Kerrycoolface AKA Kiss the Pan! That was her photoshopped hair that’s taking the Internet by the storm.
That is amazing. Thank you for posting this!
More like R.I.H. Jeff Zucker (R.I.H. = Rest In Hell)
Holy shit! Zucker looks JUST like David Wallace from the Office!!
FORESHADOWING!!??
Leno=Michael Scott??? (Ok I just barfed myself a little)
This obviously happened because we made a deal with the devil to gain independence from the Jeff Dunham regime. Countless scholars and religious figures agree that people who have good taste in comedy are cursed.
30 Rock better make an episode out of this.
I was thinking that when I saw Kenneth the Page on the show last night. It would be hilarious
Bill Simmons is saying next week is Conan’s last. Not sure about the veracity, but FWIW he’s a decently connected guy (wrote for Kimmel for a few years):
http://twitter.com/sportsguy33
This whole thing makes me sick. People who love Leno must be the same people who loved Transformers 2, Grey’s Anatomy, voted for Bush twice, are anti-gay rights and think Sarah Palin and Jeff Dunham are terrific… basically everything wrong with this country.
For the love of God, won’t someone think of La Bamba?
Looks like someone is planning something…
Anyhoo, this will come down to small prints. Like someone reported that Conan’s contract does not specify timeslot… something like that. Also, someone made a fake Leno letter to the people of the Earth
He isn’t dead anymore; the wikipedia page now says he is ‘the President and CEO of NBC Universal, who stabbed Conan O’Brien in the back and will rot in Hell.’
Anyone else worried about the intellectual property situation? if Conan were to go to another network, NBC would most likely retain the rights to all sketches, skits, and characters developed on both Late Night and The Tonight Show.
Although David Letterman was able to reprise some of his, just under a different name.
Oh, the menstruation jokes that could have been! Alas, wiki trolls have a limited knowledge of lady participles.
I can never see the name “Jeff Zucker” without thinking it is Jeff Smucker. This is fitting considering that he is in a jam. By jam I mean how many people want him forcibly put into a glass jar. They want him to stop having access to so much airtime. No more airtime means they want the jar to be closed with a very tight lid.
All this late night scuttlebutt is keeping me from knowing what’s up with Topher Grace and it’s pissing me off!