Conan O'Brien Talks About Jay Leno | Letterman

our first guest uh has his own television program a very funny show uh it's uh

over there on the tbs it's called conan and that's the guy who's coming out here and he's going to be

taking his show on the road from los angeles to california to chicago rather the week of

june 11th ladies and gentlemen please welcome back our good friend conan o'brien cook thank you

how are you welcome back

oh

i think the longer we just sit here the more uncomfortable it will make jay

you know jay's watching right now you know he's

he's getting a live feed in a satellite truck right now he is watching every second yeah

dave looks unhappy yeah

he's going to pack it in soon man yeah you um

um i i know from your perspective yeah and that was all i had to do

i know from your perspective it was difficult uh what are we talking about now

the uh you know when you decided to go to tbs and all of that and you took our show

and did a great job there then you had the tonight show did a great job there and then

some kind of a mix-up

i really don't recall how do you feel a long time how do you feel now on the other side

of all of that you got to feel great you got to i feel i i feel uh terrific i really do uh

you know all i ever wanted to do was i mean i'm very lucky to get to go on television and to do

my thing my way and tbs lets me do whatever i want they don't watch it they don't care

checks come in they're not watching no no that's the magic

um and i i have a great time i you know we took all of our people with us so

everybody is happy and uh i so i'm thrilled it worked out and uh i'm a lucky person so i uh

uh and forgive me for making this all about me but that's kind of what i do

uh i was i was delighted by everything that happened except you losing your job

i i will tell you

i will tell you and this is honest the only consolation i took

during that period was that you were happy

it was really it was humanitarian i i did i felt this is a this is uh

he sometimes dave seems a tad unhappy in his life uh and if this is bringing you some measure of joy

then to hell with my career yeah no let me explain myself

i knew you would be just fine yeah i can forage for food no no i i don't think that

was ever going to be a question i can catch animals and eat them i knew i'd be all right

but you were happy i was happy for you and let me just let me illustrate this i've known jay a long

long time we go back to the mid-70s back in los angeles at the comedy store jay was always the guy

the funniest guy he was the guy he was the guy you'd go to see he was the guy you wished you

could be more like he was funny he was also a bit of a brat a bit of a brat uh and so then um

oh you know when this came along i said to myself oh yes this is the jay i know and i really

and and i kind of you know i refer to that period as the golden age of television really