what a tool

Why does this dude have such a hard-on for Leno?


It's really Dave Letterman he has the hard-on for. In fact, when Dave was on his show recently, Jimmy showed him a picture of a birthday cake he once had that was styled after the logo for "Late Night With David Letterman", his favourite show as a kid. Jimmy couldn't say enough about how much he adored Letterman, who seemed a little uncomfortable with all the open adulation.




Get over it you little stool shover.

I think Jimmy's still annoyed that NBC gave "The Tonight Show" to Leno instead of his comedy hero, Letterman. In a recent magazine interview he even called Jay a "sell-out", which is pretty funny coming from a guy who opens each episode with another embarrassing in-show commercial for any kind of product you could name. None of the other late night hosts do that. Despite Jimmy moving to 11:35, I highly doubt in six months time we'll see any significant change in the ratings; he'll probably still be running third to both Jay, and his precious Dave.

Jimmy Kimmel has no class anyway. I remember a couple years ago during the whole NBC mess with Leno & Conan, Jay Leno had Kimmel on his Jay Leno Show that came on at 9pm all Jimmy Kimmel did was take shots and dissed Jay. Jay Leno I thought handled it with class and let it go and played it off. Since then I haven't watched Jimmy Kimmel.

Jay Leno deserved Jimmy taking shots at him. Jay Leno is a douche bag and I really don't see how people can't see that. Not just because of the whole Leno-Conan thing but do research and you'll see he's done dumb *beep* like hide in the closets of NBC meetings to see what they said about him, he steals bits from other shows and passes them off as if he made them and just recently moved his show up to 11:34 so he would have a one minute jump on Jimmy Kimmel when he moved to 11:35. People please quit thinking Leno is a saint.

GO WILDCATS! BBN!

he steals bits from other shows and passes them off as if he made them

Could you please provide us with a specific example that proves your charge?


and just recently moved his show up to 11:34 so he would have a one minute jump on Jimmy Kimmel when he moved to 11:35.

What exactly is wrong with that? Kimmel bumped the long-running news show "Nightline" to 12:30 so he could start his show an hour earlier and steal some of Jay's audience. Isn't that even meaner than what Jay did?

dpt, these two guys are competitors. They're supposed to try and outdo each other in order to attract the most viewers. That's how network television works.

good response, alien. Took the words right out of my mouth. I've always maintained that while the debacle that happened with the tonight show was a bad thing, Conan was never a right fit for the time slot or the network. Just because I don't find him funny or watchable doesn't mean others find him funny. He's still on tv, still doing his show with its brand of humor, still healthy, still happy. He just found out the hard way he was out of his depth. Much like Kimmel is about to.

[Conan] is still on tv, still doing his show with its brand of humor, still healthy, still happy. He just found out the hard way he was out of his depth. Much like Kimmel is about to.


And I understand they even renewed his contract. So, yes, Conan and TBS appear to be a much better fit.

As for the 45-year-old new kid on the block, his 11:35 premiere finishing second to Jay, in addition to relegating his comedy hero Dave Letterman to third place, was not a good start for Jimmy. However, it's too soon to tell if this will be a trend as all these guys have a lot to prove between now and the end of sweeps.


Stay tuned, folks.

Steve Allen and Howard Stern did the Jaywalking bit before he did(obviously they did it under a different name segment) and he even admitted to stealing it from Steve Allen. Moving his show up one minute is a douche bag move. It makes him look weak and instead of welcoming competition Jay always finds a way to weasel his way into doing something ridiculous to try and beat them.

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Steve Allen and Howard Stern did the Jaywalking bit before he did (obviously they did it under a different name segment)

Yes, Steve Allen did invent the man-on-the-streets interview technique back in the 1950's, which means Howard Stern actually stole it first. Therefore, he has no moral high ground from which to condemn anybody else for borrowing the bit. But if Steve being the first guy to talk to people outside the studio made it his alone, that would mean Kimmel, Letterman, and even Conan & Andy are all guilty of stealing, too.


Moving his show up one minute is a douche bag move. It makes him look weak and instead of welcoming competition Jay always finds a way to weasel his way into doing something ridiculous to try and beat them.


You're holding Jay responsible for something he doesn't control. It's the network that decides what time a show will start, not the host.

Dpt, you have to understand that it's a tough business these guys are in; the difference between Jay and Dave's ratings is often pretty slim. If you "welcome competition", and they end up beating you, you can get fired just like Pat Sajak, Chevy Chase, Tom Green, Arsenio Hall, Joan Rivers and anybody else whose show got axed due to low ratings. It's a high stakes, profit-driven business, and there are alot of production jobs on the line if the host doesn't deliver the kind of numbers the network expects.