The Sunshine Empire

“There’s a rumor that NBC is so upset with me that want to keep me off the air for three years. My response to that is if NBC doesn’t want people to see me, just leave me on NBC.”
-Conan O’Brien

I’ll talk about something else tomorrow, but until then check out this blast from the past when Dave and the chin were more civil.

As the battle between Team Coco and Team Jay gets more and more vicious, and NBC Universal head Jeff Zucker proves he must have been the basis of Tom Cruise’s character in Tropic Thunder, I was struck by how similar this is to a political campaign for elected office.
NBC’s battle for The Tonight [...]

I just cannot get enough of this late night television soap opera that NBC has become. Here’s David Letterman again and you can tell he is relishing every single moment of this.

I just can’t get enough of the Jay Leno bashing going on. Jay Leno is an untalented worm and the rest of the comedy establishment is turning on him. Here’s Dave rightly kicking him while he’s down.

The Tonight Show is an American television institution first hosted by Steve Allen in 1954 and has been hosted by a total of five men. Jay Leno now has the distinction among them of being the only man to stab two people in the back to get the host chair on the show twice. [...]

I’ve been a listener of The Howard Stern Show for about four years now and have become a huge fan of comedian Artie Lange because of it. Artie’s demons are well chronicled for any listener of the show and it is being reported that Lange was admitted to the hospital after attempted suicide by [...]

As we reach the end of the first decade of the 21st century the news is filled with not only year end reviews but also decade end reviews. I began this decade in a simple and unglamorous fashion. In late 1999 my girlfriend’s parents at the time were paranoid Trilateral Commission types convinced [...]

When you enter into the vows of matrimony, you should abide by those vows. There is no excuse for Tiger Woods cheating on his wife and I will never attempt to defend the actions themselves. I also understand that when the highest profile athlete in the world is revealed to have philandered and [...]