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‘Leno remains disingenuous to an intolerable extreme. He's always playing the injured puppy — the good-hearted lug in the blue-collar shirt who gets trampled over by the big guys.’ via Tom Shales – Tom Shales on the villains in the Leno-O’Brien fiasco at NBC – washingtonpost.com.

What do you do when you’re fired by your longtime boss?  Make some fun of his foibles while the world is watching: How Edd Hall wound up in Dave’s anti-Jay promo « TV Howl by Adam Buckman.

We’re with our colleague Appanage over at Exquisite Contrarian: Jay Leno’s gentlemanly explanation of events doesn’t wash. We also got a chance to see the show last night and found ourselves noticing the contrived nature of Jay’s eyeballs lined up twenty feet off camera while rending a heart warming account that seemed something less than warming [...]

The Late Night War Reaches Its Boiling Point: All the Clips You Missed – TV – Gawker.TV.

Ouch.

Solution?  Fire Zucker.  Problem solved. NBC Chief Threatens Conan – The Daily Beast. By the way, how are these guys finding time to prepare new episodes?

‘“Hosting the Tonight Show has been the fulfilment of a lifelong dream for me. And I just want to say to the kids out there watching: ‘You can do anything you want.’ Yeah. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it, too.”’ At this rate you’ve got to wonder if he’ll finish even out the week. [...]

I guess this means everyone’s pi**ed. Report: Leno May Ditch NBC – The Daily Beast.

People of Earth: In the last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I’ve been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with real [...]