>> UYGUR: Ana.
>> KASPARIAN: Yes? >> UYGUR: What's the latest on Leno versus
Conan? >> ANA: Okay. First of all both of them are
going on their own television shows and they're both taking little stabs at one another, right?
>> UYGUR: Yes. >> KASPARIAN: Leno's stabs are weak sauce,
lame and unfunny, right? But Conan's stabs are a little funny.
>> UYGUR: I want to do both. I want to let the audience decide.
>> KASPARIAN: Okay. >> UYGUR: Okay. So first, he is gay.
>> KASPARIAN: Ha, ha, ha. >> UYGUR: He's terrible. Everybody does a
gay accent. Everybody can do one, apparently except me. All right, so here's Leno going
after another guy a little bit. Let's watch. >> LENO: Critics of the war have stopped referring
to it as another Vietnam, they're not calling it anymore. The bad news, they're now calling
it another NBC, that's recorded. Welcome across NBC, America's most dysfunctional TV family,
huh? Thank you very much. Well, nobody knows what's going on. If Conan O'Brien understands,
he'll be very upset. He had a statement on paper yesterday and Conan said, "NBC had only
given him seven months to make his show work." When I heard that, seven months, how did he
get that deal? We only got four. Dave, who's his agent? Get me that guy. I'll take seven.
Well, all the late night hosts are having a great fun with this debacle. Last night
Jimmy Kimmel did a show, dressed up as me. Show that clip, here he is dress up like me.
>> KIMMEL: My name is Jay Leno and, let it hereby be known that I'm taking over all the
shows in late night. >> All right.
>> LENO: Let's see what's coming up on our late local news. Rick, Tonya.
>> TONYA: Thanks a lot Jay. Coming up after the Jay Leno show. An NFL player suffers his
17th concussion and is forced to become an NBC executive. We have all the details.
>> UYGUR: Yeah. I mean that, I got to be honest upon a second watching that I swear I want
[INDISTINCT]. >> It did, right from the start. Everything
in there, you know, their calling it another Vietnam they're call it another NBC. This
didn't make any sense. It's like... >> UYGUR: Yeah, and you saw that joke coming
from a mile away and he almost wanted to stop it like no, no, no, no don't, don't say NBC,
ah, you said it. >> Its funny, you know, the headline here
is about they're taking shots at each other and the one joke they use in that is the reference
that, you know, that they--how did he got that deal with seven months, I only got four.
>> UYGUR: Uh-huh. >> That's not really a shot at Conan.
>> UYGUR: I agree. I agree. >> Actually, that's not a shot at all and
actually that's the line I kind of like. I thought that's, that's at least a joke.
>> UYGUR: Yeah. It's a little unfair to say that Leno's going after Conan. But Conan was
just waiting for any little thing to go after Leno because what Leno's lying about--he's
making jokes about NBC and I don't mind Leno, right? It's just--he's getting a great deal
here. Okay, he's, instead of getting cancelled and gettin' walked out the door, he's getting
the Tonight show back--he always wanted the Tonight show back. So he's pretending that
he's aggrieved when he's not at all aggrieved. >> No, he's not aggrieved at all. And what
is incredibly false about Jay Leno, what was false when he got the--look, we're not--this
aren't--we're not--these aren't six year olds and everybody gets the equal amount of ice
cream and the person who doesn't get the equal amount gets to cry about it.
>> UYGUR: Right. >> I mean this is, these are big boys and
no one as Conan said in his brilliant statement, you know, don't shed a tear for me, for crying
out loud. >> UYGUR: Right, right.
>> But I have been put in this awkward public situation. So I have to respond.
>> UYGUR: Right. >> So no one needs to hold anyone's hand.
But what Leno cannot do, what is disingenuous and which I think strikes me is disingenuous
and unauthentic and I think its striking, pretty much universally everyone who pays
attention to this as, is when he goes out there after this all happens and says, you
know, I mean I--you know, they're screwing me, they're screwing Conan, I mean poor Conan--like
Jay didn't sit there and this didn't happened to Jay. He made this happened.
>> UYGUR: Yeah. >> He took Conan's job. Conan got the job,
was promised it, did it for seven months the ratings went down in part because of Jay's
show. >> UYGUR: Yeah.
>> And then, now, Jay is not obligated to let Conan keep that job, in no way.
>> UYGUR: Right >> What he needs to say is, yeah, look this
didn't work out for me and these guys I'd like that job back, it's not doing that well,
I hate to push out a guy like Conan. He doesn't even need to say that much. He just needs
to say hey, we're all big boys, it's really competitive, my ratings were better and I
want this job back and I can't wait to start broadcasting at 11:30 to America and guess
what? Conan will be fine. But acting like you care about Conan, acting like he cared
about Dave in 1993 that was what the--you know, when you read the late shift, Jay is
a schever, he's a schemer and then, he's like "oh, no, I'm every man, I'm George Bush, everybody
loves me, have an Odules; I'm great!" >> UYGUR: Yeah, and that's what gets on everybody's
nerves. >> Yeah. Yeah.
>> UYGUR: So now let's go to Conan, going after Jay Leno a little bit and he did go
after him a little bit here. So let's watch. >> O'BRIEN: You know, I'm trying very hard
to stay positive here. And I want to tell you something. This is honest. Hosting a Tonight
show has been a fulfillment of a life long dream for me. And I just want to say to the
kids out there watching, you can do anything you want in life--yeah, unless Jay Leno wants
to do it too. You still using that? Because I could now look at [INDISTINCT].
>> GERVAIS: You're having a good time sticking it to NBC aren't you?
>> O'BRIEN: Oh, no, no; I'm just staying here having a good time. That's all I...
>> GERVAIS: They did--they did. They deserve it. But I will say this.
>> O'BRIEN: Yes. >> GERVAIS: I think I should plug all my stuff
now in case they just take you off the air like Mike Davis.
>> O'BRIEN: Done. >> GERVAIS: What you're going to do?
>> O'BRIEN: I'll find something to do. I'm sure.
>> GERVAIS: Oh, really? >> O'BRIEN: Yeah.
>> GERVAIS: Okay. >> O'BRIEN: Yeah.
>> GERVAIS: You know I'm really worried about it, because I saw that the effort was great.
>> O'BRIEN: Yes. >> GERVAIS: I feel for you. And I just think...
>> O'BRIEN: Yes. >> GERVAIS: ...you know, you've been treated
badly, but what I don't--you got no discernable, I'm not being funny this is--this is...
>> O'BRIEN: Sure, of course, yes, yes. >> GERVAIS: You got no discernable skill.
>> UYGUR: Ricky Gervais is funny too. >> On Letterman Tonight, Ricky Gervais said
that--he said our good friend Ricky Gervais will be hosting the Golden Globe's if Jay
lets him. >> UYGUR: That's what Letterman said.
>> That's Letterman Tonight. >> UYGUR: Okay, that's awesome. Now, by the
way, why Conan's numbers went down because of Leno which is what Ben said, is because
Leno's number were so bad that the news programs that followed him were also had bad ratings
which led to bad ratings for Conan because it all trickles down in television that way.
So Conan... >> Now, that said, I mean I suspected an equal
some game. At this point, Leno would do better than Conan. I mean that's simple.
>> UYGUR: Yes, because he's going to get us all the audience back, people are used to
him et cetera. >> Yes.
>> UYGUR: So I get the NBCs decision on that--in that term.