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Originally Posted by Daradon
Interestingly enough Kaufman himself had a stunt on The Late Show (I had known this from the movie Man in the Moon but had forgotten since) with wrestler Jerry Lawler, making it even more likely that this JP incident was all just a set up.
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Actually, it was Late Night w/ David Letterman as he hosted the show before Conan O'Brien. Dave thought that since he was best buddies with Johnny Carson that he would be a shoe-in and next in line to inhereit the Tonight Show and he got majorly pissed off that they passed him up for Jay Leno.
18 years on (yikes!!!) and now Jay is getting his own show 1 hour earlier, Conan is getting the Tonight Show, it's going to be Late Night w/Jimmy Fallon...and Letterman is still getting painfully awkward interviews.