That would have made it the best commercial out of the last 5 years. At least.

SilentStrider: DARN YOU CONAN.

Why did you say no? That would've been AWESOME.

Yes, but at the same time, you can kinda understand why he wouldn't want to do it. I know if I were Conan I wouldn't want to be in the same room as Leno for a while.

Yeah but Letterman hates Leno. That's why it's funnier with Leno's dumb ass.

csxtrainwreck: Yeah but Letterman hates Leno. That's why it's funnier with Leno's dumb ass.

Say what you will, Leno was willing to fly cross country and sneak into the studios for a 15 second commercial for a guy who has been blasting him for a month. Either Leno was trying hard to bury the hatchet or he's a glutton for punishment. I wonder how his bosses liked it.

I thought it was the best commercial of the night myself.

Your_Huckleberry: csxtrainwreck: Yeah but Letterman hates Leno. That's why it's funnier with Leno's dumb ass.

Say what you will, Leno was willing to fly cross country and sneak into the studios for a 15 second commercial for a guy who has been blasting him for a month. Either Leno was trying hard to bury the hatchet or he's a glutton for punishment. I wonder how his bosses liked it.

I thought it was the best commercial of the night myself.

Leno's just trying for damage control.

I'd say that there is about a 0% chance that Conan was allowed to participate in an ad for Leno's competitor at this point in time. It really wasnt his choice at all.

If I were Conan, I wouldn't bother. Letterman is doing it for comedy value, but Conan had his show destroyed because Leno has no balls. And Conan is pushing his show and figuring out what to do next. Guesting next to Jay would make it look like there's no hard feelings, and that only works for Jay's benefit. Conan would be playing nice with someone who set him up for failure at every level and then giving him the okay to take back a show.

This was never going to happen. If Conan was going to take it up the ass, he wouldn't have blasted NBC and Leno for two weeks straight. This will never be okay until Conan says it's okay, and right now he's got better things to do with his time like finding more gainful employment after flushing five years of his life down the drain siding with NBC.

I don't blame Conan in the slightest.

Guntram Shatterhand: Conan would be playing nice with someone who set him up for failure at every level and then giving him the okay to take back a show.

Precisely what I thought. Also, it has been what, 17 years since Letterman and Leno had their tonight show problem? That's quite awhile for the wounds to heal enough to do something for it's shock and comedic value.

Your_Huckleberry 2010-02-10 12:24:18 AM
csxtrainwreck: Yeah but Letterman hates Leno. That's why it's funnier with Leno's dumb ass.

Say what you will, Leno was willing to fly cross country and sneak into the studios for a 15 second commercial for a guy who has been blasting him for a month. Either Leno was trying hard to bury the hatchet or he's a glutton for punishment. I wonder how his bosses liked it.

I thought it was the best commercial of the night myself.

Agreed.

Add to this that Letterman asked Leno to do it, not the other way 'round.

And Jeff Zucker, head of NBC, signed off on it - per the NYTimes article.

JerseyTim: SilentStrider: DARN YOU CONAN.

Why did you say no? That would've been AWESOME.

I wouldn't be surprised if Conan is not allowed to appear on TV for a while as part of his buyout.

That's my guess.

Have you all forgotten so soon?

Conan doesn't do commercials.

sVybDy: Have you all forgotten so soon?

Conan doesn't do commercials.

Coach Mcguirk!



/also Satan in Lucy Daughter of the Devil

Conan. Irish temper. Oh, I get it, Coco. I get it.
I would of broken his giant jaw too, homie.

Conan's polite declination:

"Yo! D-Lettah! I've been down here at Antigua, or Barbados, or some place in the carribean. Don't much feel like heading to NYC this time of year, hell... I don't feel much of anything right now. It's amazing how many hallucinogens, pain killers, uppers, downers, twisters, and straight up chronic a cancelled show's money can buy. Imma gonna stay straight twisted through the Winter Olympics, hit up a clean living facility for a few weeks, then be back at it this fall.

"So, have fun with O-Town and Da Chin. I will be on the beach getting blowjobs from interns that would make you kick a hole through your Beemer.

"Love, C-Dawg"

Class. Self-respect. Legal constraints. Inability to control anger. Take your pick.

Sounds about right, Coco turning it down. If this adventure has taught me anything, it's that Leno is an ass and Conan is ego personified.

Oh, and NBC is useless.

hmmm... one of these things is not like the other.

It's ok for leno and letterman to make light of the fued. They still have shows.

I wish they got Conan in there. The prefect setup would be Conan, Oprah, and Letterman sitting on the sofa. A commercial hits and Conan gets up and races for another beer. Jay Leno takes his seat and when Conan reenters, he stops and doesn't know what to do to get Leno to move. Leno then turns around, smirks, grabs the beer out of Conan's hands and takes a swig.

darklingscribe: I wish they got Conan in there. The prefect setup would be Conan, Oprah, and Letterman sitting on the sofa. A commercial hits and Conan gets up and races for another beer. Jay Leno takes his seat and when Conan reenters, he stops and doesn't know what to do to get Leno to move. Leno then turns around, smirks, grabs the beer out of Conan's hands and takes a swig.

I think I might have punched my television if that had happened.

Your_Huckleberry: csxtrainwreck: Yeah but Letterman hates Leno. That's why it's funnier with Leno's dumb ass.

Say what you will, Leno was willing to fly cross country and sneak into the studios for a 15 second commercial for a guy who has been blasting him for a month. Either Leno was trying hard to bury the hatchet or he's a glutton for punishment. I wonder how his bosses liked it.

I thought it was the best commercial of the night myself.

Have you ever known a full blown attention whore? Because Jay Leno is an attention whore. That explains it for you.

Here's how I would have done it:

It starts off similar. Dave and Oprah sit on the couch. In addition to the bowl of chips, there are two pizzas on the sitting on the coffee table with paper plates and napkins.

Tight shot of Dave and Oprah, Dave says "This is the worst Super Bowl ever."

Camera pulls out to reveal Jay, who says "Yeah, no kidding."

They glare back and forth for a second, and the camera pulls out again to reveal Conan sitting in the chair (arranged perpendicular around the coffee table, to make glaring easier). Conan says, "Yeah."

Another round of glaring, then Conan stands up, puts on one of those little fold-able paper hats from the local pizza joint and says "Well, I gotta get back to work."

He picks up one of those warming bags that they carry pizzas in and says, "That'll be $19.95."

---------------

Optional ending:

Jay, without looking up says, "These were supposed to be here in 30 minutes or less. I'm not paying for those."

Conan's head falls, and the warming bag droops to the side, practically dragging on the ground as he slowly shuffles out of the shot.


/team Coco

Nickcin: He picks up one of those warming bags that they carry pizzas in and says, "That'll be $19.95."

Now that would have been funny.

Epiphany: darklingscribe: I wish they got Conan in there. The prefect setup would be Conan, Oprah, and Letterman sitting on the sofa. A commercial hits and Conan gets up and races for another beer. Jay Leno takes his seat and when Conan reenters, he stops and doesn't know what to do to get Leno to move. Leno then turns around, smirks, grabs the beer out of Conan's hands and takes a swig.

I think I might have punched my television if that had happened.

See, *that* would have been the punchline. Kaufman would have been proud of such a masterpiece!

/and yes, it would have been hilarious
//and good for the economy, too, so yay.

I'm guessing NBC said no. They pulled all of coco's videos off of there site so we all forget the drama.

I think Leno is going for the "if they laugh at me long enough, they will forgive and forget."

MtnByker: I think Leno is going for the "if they laugh at me long enough, they will forgive and forget."

Leno has a pathological need to be liked.

Epiphany: darklingscribe: I wish they got Conan in there. The prefect setup would be Conan, Oprah, and Letterman sitting on the sofa. A commercial hits and Conan gets up and races for another beer. Jay Leno takes his seat and when Conan reenters, he stops and doesn't know what to do to get Leno to move. Leno then turns around, smirks, grabs the beer out of Conan's hands and takes a swig.

They could even get Jimmy Kimmel to do Leno if Leno wasn't down for the bit, I think. I'm not sure if Conan would still do his part, though. So is there another way to convey the same or similar message with Letterman and O? Like could you have Jay look at a younger boy with red hair and be like "Here, have my seat.", and then the boy gets up to go to the bathroom, and comes back to find Leno sitting in his same spot again and then say "Changed my mind." Something like that if Coco didn't appear.

i immediately thought that would have been better, played out like letterman was letting conan sleep on his couch while he was looking for a job.

If Conan hadn't refused, it should have gone like this:

Dave: "This is the worst Superbowl ever."
Jay: "He's just saying that because I'm here."
*Conan walks in and looks at Jay*
Conan: "Hey, what are you doing in my seat?"

I thought Conan was going to be there too once they showed Jay. It's really not that big of a deal though - just television shows. Conan probably wanted to just be away from all of it, even in jest, since he quit. He'll be employed and just as popular again soon enough.

Your_Huckleberry: Say what you will, Leno was willing to fly cross country and sneak into the studios for a 15 second commercial for a guy who has been blasting him for a month. Either Leno was trying hard to bury the hatchet or he's a glutton for punishment. I wonder how his bosses liked it.

I'm $ure he ju$t did it out of hi$ re$pect for good comedy

I wish people would come to the realization that the late night format is curdling in its own death juice.
Re-runs of South Park and other shows on cable get higher ratings than any of these late night shows!
Why?!? who the hell wants to watch one huge commercial and fluff???

udar55: If Conan hadn't refused, it should have gone like this:

Dave: "This is the worst Superbowl ever."
Jay: "He's just saying that because I'm here."
*Conan walks in and looks at Jay*
Conan: "Hey, what are you doing in my seat?"

And that, folks, is what it takes to make a $3M ad.

Matt Foley: udar55: If Conan hadn't refused, it should have gone like this:

Dave: "This is the worst Superbowl ever."
Jay: "He's just saying that because I'm here."
*Conan walks in and looks at Jay*
Conan: "Hey, what are you doing in my seat?"

And that, folks, is what it takes to make a $3M ad.

I doubt it cost him 3 mill, seeing as how it was on CBS (his network) and it wasn't very long.

He could have walked out of the kitchen with some nachos, looked at Leno and said "That was MY seat!"

StinkyFiddlewinks: He could have walked out of the kitchen with some nachos, looked at Leno and said "That was MY seat!"

That's only the 15th time that has been posted.

lobootomy: If I were Conan I would have agreed to it as long I got to spend the entire commercial with my balls on Leno's chin.

Dems some mighty big balls ya got there son.

Epiphany: Guntram Shatterhand: Conan would be playing nice with someone who set him up for failure at every level and then giving him the okay to take back a show.

Precisely what I thought. Also, it has been what, 17 years since Letterman and Leno had their tonight show problem? That's quite awhile for the wounds to heal enough to do something for it's shock and comedic value.

If this crap btwn Leno and Conan didn't happen you can bet your ass they still wouldn't be in the same room. Letterman gets another dig in while Leno looks like he's surrounding the wagons.

I wanted to see Conan delivering the pizza.

So I had to go look this up on youtube, since I didn't see it, and I still don't get it. They actually all did it together? WTF was it about? How was that a commercial for the Late Show?

oh well--don't know, don't care.

Epiphany: I doubt it cost him 3 mill, seeing as how it was on CBS (his network) and it wasn't very long.

True. I guess I was making a dig at how goddamn much many of those ads cost despite their simplicity.