The late-night drama involving Jay Leno remains to be being mentioned.
Leno stopped by Invoice Maher’s Membership Random podcast and his previous good friend introduced up the controversy surrounding his exit from The Tonight Present.
Leno left The Tonight Present in Could 2009 and was changed by Conan O’Brien, a deal that had been 5 years within the making, and Leno moved to 10pm with The Jay Leno Present.
Nonetheless, neither present carried out nicely within the rankings and after loads of forwards and backwards O’Brien left and Leno returned to The Tonight Present till 2014.
Talking to Maher, Leno stated it was by no means his intention to “intentionally sabotage” The Tonight Present hosted by O’Brien, an accusation that has been made. “It doesn’t work that method. You’re making an attempt to do one of the best you’ll be able to,” he stated.
Requested why he stayed at NBC somewhat than transferring to a different community, Leno stated, “Generally the czar you will have is healthier than the one you’re going to”. “Then you will have your previous crew capturing at you as nicely. I simply figured let’s simply play this out and see what occurs. This all occurred pretty rapidly,” he added.
Nonetheless, one other issue was ABC and Jimmy Kimmel. In 2008, Leno mentioned transferring to ABC, one thing then ABC Leisure President Steve McPherson admitted publicly.
This is able to have meant pushing again Jimmy Kimmel Reside! from midnight to 12:35am.
Leno did converse to Kimmel, who was theoretically pleased with the concept, trusting that he would get a greater lead in than Nightline. Nonetheless, Kimmel has stated that Leno by no means known as him again to let him know that he was staying at ABC.
“I suppose I ought to have known as Jimmy and defined to him once more, however I didn’t. I don’t know why I didn’t. I simply didn’t. I believed he most likely would determine it out. However I feel possibly he was harm by that, and I apologized to him for that,” added Leno.
The You Guess Your Life host added that he thought Kimmel was “actually humorous” and did a fantastic job internet hosting the Oscars. “It’s simply a kind of awkward conditions the place he was an enormous Letterman man and when Letterman didn’t get The Tonight Present, in some way it was my fault. I feel he resented that and I get that. However, Dave by no means had The Tonight Present,” he added.
Leno additionally addressed a altering world the place linear rankings for late-night exhibits are dramatically decrease than when he was within the house.
“The hardest factor about late night time now could be that the commercials. , you get used to streaming and watching Netflix and I am going ‘Let me see what the blokes are doing.’ I am going, ‘One other industrial?’ I imply, there’s a nine-minute break at 12am to 12:09am on virtually all of the exhibits. After 11pm at night time you’ll be able to add extra commercials so…,” he stated.