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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
Huh? Conan doesn't know what Jay felt because Jay had lots of long time staff? This is exactly what Conan's concern was.
If a show is cancelled, all the staff don't go their seperate ways. They tend to stick together. This is apparent in Conans use of his previous staff for his road tour.
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He didn't have the choice of whether to basically tell his staff they were all fired, Jay had to either take 11:30 or his staff were being fired
Conan is using his staff for the road tour is a complete one off situation, he needed to stay back in the public eye and he isn't allowed to go on TV until may 1st, for the upcoming 60 minutes piece CBS can't even show his face in the previews. And Conan's fan base skews young, if any of the other late night hosts had been fired they wouldn't have done the road tour.
It wasn't all Jay saying eff Conan I want the tonight show, it was probly a mix of not believing he should have been removed from it in the 1st place (which Conan put in to motion by demanding the Tonight show when he signed a new contract in 04 or he was going to leave NBC) and not wanting all his staff to be fired. Whether he would have gotten a new show at FOX or whatever no one knows, Conan didn't get one on FOX.