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Originally Posted by Red
Maybe that's why the masses don't like Conan? What are we debating here? As far as facts go Leno is the better host of the Tonight Show. Unless you only go with opinions.
Lost in all this is the fact that Conan's ratings were horrible. Leno's were too, but he worked with a new show in a very difficult time slot. Maybe Conan could do better at 10? He did not do well at 11:35. That's why he is the one leaving.
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It's not a fair comparison. If Leno leaves the network, then Conan inherits Leno's audience, brings his own Late Night audience with him, and has a shot at building a new audience. Instead Leno took his audience with him, alienated the new audience with his awful schtick, and left Conan with only his Late Night audience.
When Leno took over from Carson, he inherited Carson's audience and had a good three years to build his core audience. Leno's ratings were bad when he originally took over back in the 90s and he had much less to compete with back then, let alone a crappy talk show preceding his.
Conan has 2 other network shows to compete with, plus a cable talkshow market that didn't exist in the early 90s. Apples to oranges.