Who'll Boycott a Jay Leno Tonight Show?

6. Jack White

The White Stripes and Conan enjoy a close bond, dating back to when O'Brien met them in a Detroit bowling alley after shooting a remote segment with Ted Nugent in the late 1990s. They performed many times on the show, including a four-night residency in April 2003, a Late Night-set, Michel Gondry-directed video for "The Denial Twist," and a final broadcast performance of Conan's favorite tune, "We're Going to Be Friends."

7. Pearl Jam

The rockers were Conan's first Tonight Show musical act. Like Ticketmaster, NBC represents a greedy corporate force, and the band will be an unlikely guest on Leno's show.

8. Jon Stewart

They may have had a staged feud over who gave Mike Huckabee's campaign a "bump," but you can be sure Stewart and Conan's brainy, East Coast-based allegiance will preclude any future appearances on Leno's couch.

9. Bruce Springsteen

Max Weinberg's other Boss would stand by his drummer.

10. William Shatner

The guy who forgot Captain Kirk's name on Conan's couch, and recently got ambushed by Sarah Palin while reading excerpts from her biography on air, would almost certainly stick by his ginger man in the rift.

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Comments

  • Peon says:

    IMHO the only reason Conan's ratings started to tank was because of the fact that the network put the same guests on Leno who would then show up a day or two later on Conan or Fallon.
    I may be awake at night, but that doesn't mean I'm going to watch the same person get interviewed three times in a week.
    I will however be sure that tomorrow is the last time I watch the Tonight show, just out of principal.

  • t dog says:

    CONAN is undeniably a better interviewer than jay leno EVER was. CONAN interacts with his guests much more sincerely and it shows! leno has always been a corporate puppet. sure, he (leno) has his funny moments but he doesnt possess half the comedic and interpersonal skills that CONAN does in his pinky. AND IT SHOWS! this is the biggest showbiz catastrophe in history.....CONAN will prevail in time and NBC will be sorry they made such a horrible decision.

  • anastashia says:

    Leno was TOLD by NBC in 2004 that he would have to give up the slot because NBC wanted to keep Conan who wouldn't have stayed if he didn't get it. It wasn't Jay's choice, it was the network's.
    " Leno opened with an NBC executive telling him in 2004 that he would have to surrender "Tonight" to O'Brien to keep the gangly, redheaded host of "Late Night" from going to a competitor.
    "I said, 'Well, I've been No. 1 for 12 years.' They said, 'We know that. We don't think you can sustain it,"' Leno recounted the executive telling him. He joked that he asked if he could at least wait until his show fell to No. 2, but agreed to the hand-over plan. "

  • JP says:

    How anyone can sit down and watch Leno a full hour and not get annoyed is a mystery to me. Letterman could be watchable if he were a little funnier and that annoying bald man was not there in the background saying "hah" "hah" "hah" all hour long. Conan was the funnier of all three. Anyone who disagrees with this is just a stupid idiot. See things as I see them or shut just shut the f*ck up.

  • kenny bunkport says:

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  • Sadie says:

    Well, there's no accounting for taste. Jimmy Fallon is unfunny. Nice guy perhaps, but his delivery as a comedian? It's like a slow death. Perhaps that's why you don't 'get' Conan's humour.

  • Jorge says:

    Jay is a dork, never liked him, and it is no problem to boycott him and his stupid show.

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