On Jan 24, 2010, at 10:10 AM, James Stanley Barr wrote:
Conan definitely went out with a bang.....
It was a good closure to a good run. Better than Leno's, and more
spectacular than Carson. And definitely better than his Late Night
closure last year.
And with creativity like his and his staff, they will bounce back
past NBC's little intellectual property restrictions...(If Letterman
could do it, so can Conan)
You know, really, I'm amazed how strangely fine I am with Conan
quitting the Tonight Show like this. I guess it just feels like, in
walking away instead of putting up with a degrading half-hour delay
while waiting for Leno to die, he did something with a bit of that
Jack Paar mythology to it and also lived up to that fantasy I suppose
everyone's had of telling their bosses off rather than put up with
something we'd rather not do. It feels *fitting*. If he couldn't
have the decades on the show he should have, at least he can walk out
in a way that'll be discussed whenever the history of late night talk
shows are.
Maybe, yeah, objectively it doesn't matter who hosts The Tonight Show
--- the counterpoint of Haitian relief underscored that for anyone who
didn't realize it already --- and it wouldn't have mattered whether it
was at 11:30 or 12:05, but Conan acted as if it did matter, and it
feels good that he took the job with that sincere dedication.
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