Leno refuses to admit to Oprah that he’s culpable in Conan mess
January 29th, 2010
When you look at the surface, it seemed like Jay Leno was quite revealing during his interview with Oprah Winfrey today. He said that he was “devastated” when NBC came to him in 2004 and told him that they wanted to give Conan O’Brien The Tonight Show. He claimed he was “embarrassed” by what he called “a big mess,” and that NBC would have handled it better if “they came in and shot everyone. Then it would have only been a two-day story.”
But when Oprah repeatedly tried to get Leno to react to how most of the public is reacting to this story — that Jay should have stepped aside to give Conan a chance to succeed, and that he is unfairly taking back Conan’s dream job — Leno refused to play along. Not sure if he did so because he’s truly not self-aware of what this whole mess looks like or he just doesn’t care. But as far as Jay’s concerned, this was all just business, and his decision to take back Tonight and Conan’s departure are mutually exclusive events.
Clips of the interview are after the jump.
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