TBS Starts Own Emmy Campaign for Conan O'Brien's NBC Tonight Show

Hoping August's Emmy Awards are a bit more awkward than usual this year? So is TBS. In an act that can only be described as full-on taunting, the network has taken out a series of "For Your Consideration" ads for The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien with the hopes of landing O'Brien an Emmy nomination and placement on the NBC telecast. "Conan's great work in 2009 and 2010 deserves Emmy consideration. We're very excited to have him join TBS later this year," said Turner Entertainment Networks president Steve Koonin, presumably with a massive, sh*t-eating grin. The ads make no mention of NBC -- or Jay Leno -- but they do make jokes about Coco's skin and Twitter following. So there's that. Take a look after the jump.

Question: What decade is that photo of O'Brien from? Because it surely isn't from his seven-month hosting sojourn on The Tonight Show. This second ad is a bit less "controversial" by comparison.

· TBS buys Emmy campaign ads for Conan's "Tonight Show" stint [On the Air]