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Last night NBC's two reigning on-camera villains, Jay Leno and Matt Lauer, came together on The Tonight Showfor a bit of cool comfort in NBC's latest public face-saving operation. But if this was an attempt to rehabilitate Lauer's image, it didn't really work.
The wee hours of the morning may be welcoming none other Baldwin into NBC's new late-night lineup, which leads to a bunch more questions, all with very sensible (if provocative and potentially dangerous) answers.
The grade-school antics of the Late Night Feud of 2013 may have officially concluded with NBC's announcement that Jimmy Fallon would take over for Jay Leno. But, come on, late-night television is full of comedic egos and big contracts — you thought they were going to stop the fun there?
Wednesday was a big day for Jimmy Fallon. He officially became the host of Tonight, joining the ranks of Johnny Carson. For his predecessor Jay Leno, though, Wednesday was "really awkward."
Now that it's official that Jimmy Fallon will take over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno next February, it's time to start thinking about what it all means for the entertainment powers-that-program-NBC are shifting form an old yukkity-yuk to a hip R.A. Well, if anything it shows us this generation is, for better or worse, getting the Tonight Show host it deserves. Just as the last one did.
After weeks of very public infighting and very bad jokes, NBC confirmed Wednesday afternoon that Fallon will replace Jay Leno in February 2014. And according to interviews in a detailed report breaking the story wide open, Leno insists that this is not a repeat of the Conan O'Brien affair — even after all the recent high-profile nastiness.
NBC has now signed, sealed, and almost delivered its next host of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon, who has the contract in hand to prove he'll take the biggest promotion in late night — even if nobody really knows when he'll actually take it.
In a show of solidarity, or something like that, Fallon opened his show last night with an unlikely duet: a parody of West Side Story's love song "Tonight" featuring his supposed nemesis.
After giving his streak of one bad joke about his employers per night a bit of a rest following a week of hatred in the papers and on-air, Leno took to the opening monologue of last night's Tonight Show to ridicule NBC over the issue behind this whole debacle: ratings.
Now that we know NBC is showing Jay Leno the door, the question becomes what the reigning king of late-night television will do when he is no longer on late-night television. Well, according to The Hollywood Reporter's Matthew Belloni, he could have to start waking up a lot earlier.
The man who was at the epicenter of the original late night war is no longer shying away from the new one. And last night Letterman's guest was pretty much the perfect foil to add some fuel to the fire on NBC's around-the-clock troubles.
Is there a late-night truce in the works? After taking aim at his parent network during every Tonight Show monologue last week, Leno seems to have taken a break from mocking the NBC executives who are already planning for a future without him.
Jay Leno capped off his week of wah wah, pity me tour of jokes over reports he's getting pushed out as host of the The Tonight Show by comparing himself to someone who has been stabbed in the back. Jay Leno seriously thinks we pity him.
This week in viral videos: the silliest running scenes in movie-making history, some unnecessary censorship that gives us the giggles, and animals who have learned to smile and entertain you.
This week we learned that the new late night battles will be waged in a surprisingly formulaic way, with bad jokes and big cities and plenty of power players, on these fronts.
One of the reasons cited for NBC's now acrimonious transition from Jay Leno to Jimmy Fallon as host of The Tonight Show is the rise of Jimmy Kimmel on ABC. In an interview on Thursday, Kimmel essentially started to rub it in, making us wonder what the future holds in the new late-night landscape.
Apparently, the whole concept of employee decorum, respected by normal humans in normal human jobs who don't trash their bosses with lame backhanded jokes in public, does not apply to the man The Tonight Show doesn't want anymore. He can't stop!
Amid all the furor about Jimmy Fallon bringing The Tonight Show to New York, the guy who's really gotta be feeling a lot of feelings is poor Conan O'Brien. Not only does this reopen the wounds of the terrible and bloody Late Night Wars of 2010, but it further drives home what a raw deal NBC handed him.
Sometime by the fall of 2014 ("at the latest"), Jimmy Fallon will take over for Jay Leno on NBC's The Tonight Show, and will do so from New York City, the city the left in 1972.
Ah, another day brings another shot fired from The Tonight Show host Jay Leno at the network that feeds him. He's not letting this thing go away.
If there was still any doubt about Jay Leno feuding with NBC executives — and his asking for it when it comes to threats from Jimmy Fallon — well, Leno pretty much declared battle straight from the top on last night's Tonight Show.
The recent reports about NBC's post-Leno plans were as surprising as they were interesting. As in, they kind of came out of nowhere. So it might make sense to hear that, behind the scenes, Leno has been feuding with one of the top executives at NBC.
There are so many revolving doors in NBC's late-night lineup right now that the latest rumors add up to such a stretch that they're almost good enough to be true.
Finally, Jay Leno may be leaving The Tonight Show. He will not be leaving today, tonight, or tomorrow, but a new report says his days behind Carson's old desk are numbered.
Barack Obama was a barrel of laughs on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Wednesday night. Not really, though, because the president's sense of humor is just like your dad's.
Comcast cut the operating budget of the once-mighty Tonight Show a few weeks ago, and now the New York Post's Page 6 reports the once-mighty Today Show might soon go under the knife.
NBC has a funny way of making stories television ratings, talk show hosts and television rivalries sort of sexy. There's turmoil on the Tonight show, and yes, there's a Today Show joke in here somewhere.
ABC announced a power move for Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday, saying it would reschedule Jimmy Kimmel Live! to 11:30 p.m., in what sounds like a plan to take on the cable stars of that time slot as well as the old network guys.
There's major trouble behind the scenes of NBC's Tonight Show. Around two dozen people are being laid off, senior staff members are taking huge pay cuts and the show's operating budget is being peeled back. Even Leno wasn't spared.
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Barack Obama made his second visit as a sitting president to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to talk about serious topics (Libya, Iraq, Osama bin Laden) and also goof on the Republican presidential candidates.
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President Obama will compare the Republican primary to a reality TV show while sitting on the couch of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Tuesday evening.
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