Conan/Leno Debacle Weigh-In

Good. Now I have no reason to wait for Leno to be over. When it comes to picking or being on "Teams" (e.g. Team Coco or Team Leno), I'm the guy who refuses to play such a stupid game. I'm on America's team, and do you know what America wants? To pull the plug on NBC late night completely. Conan's great and all, and I honestly believe that with a proper lead-in he might have succeeded, but seriously. NBC! Can anyone say, "face-palm"? Them trying to figure out late night hosts is more confusing and aggrivating than watching Eric Mangini try to decide which horrible quarterback to start. Imagine how you would feel if you were told you were going to be starting quarterback for an elite franchise, and then get booted by some has-been (Favre, anyone?).

Obviously, NBC has the best intentions. Their quarterback (Conan) isn't producing. They wanna go back to their seasoned veteran (Leno). Makes sense. Except that when Conan was starting quarterback, they slid Leno into the position of center (Conan's lead-in), a position that no late night quarterback has ever been in. What resulted was a seven month long fumbled snap between a horrible excuse for a show and the Tonight Show.

Some have argued that NBC should have never moved Leno in the first place (duh). Some say he should have just been canned and asked to find work elsewhere (double-duh). Whatever your stance is, Leno's move was obviously the result of piss poor management. So, I say instead of down-voting Leno in this situation, even though he deserves all the down-votes EVER, we really should be pointing the finger at NBC here. I say we boycott late night altogether. Then the affiliate stations will really be pissed. They'll be like, "All your movin' and a-shakin' of late night hosts put us at the bottom of the pile! Again! Erm...since forever!" Yeah. That and leading-in with American Gladiators a year ago.

NBC. What a disaster.