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Originally Posted by Red
What? Leno never wanted to leave. He was backstabbed by Conan in 04 thus leaving the show in 09.
Who cares about the 10:00 show, Leno gave up the Tonight Show. I guess he should've done the honorable thing by leaving to FOX to go head to head with Conan and destroy him in ratings? Is that a better solution? Yup, that Leno is a mean spirited guy.
Conan is the cry baby here, he cried in 04, made selfish demands (backstabbing a friend) and is crying again now. Maybe he should man up and admit that he failed to deliver. If he was better than Leno NBC would't let him go. It's that simple.
Just think for a second and put yourself in Leno's shoes. Apply it to your life right now, how sweet it is to be backstabbed out of a job?
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Leno did threaten to leave, that's why he got his show at 10. It's also the threat of him leaving which is causing NBC to give him the tonight show back. Leno shouldn't have agreed to leave if he wasn't going to. simple solution, no? Do you think NBC would have chosen Conan over Leno in 2004 had they know Leno wanted to keep going? honestly, if they had to choose then, who do you think they would have chosen? and do you think they would have offered Conan the Tonight show if they thought Leno was going to want to keep going? listen to the clip, Leno said he no longer wanted it into his 60's. so who backstabbed who?
NBC had to sign Conan, the only way they could do it was to find out how much longer Leno wanted to do the Tonight show, Leno said 5 years, they told Conan, it's yours in 5 years. No backstabbing there.