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God only knows how many more Conan-Leno posts I’m going to have to write before this whole thing is over, so get used to seeing the same handful of pictures with various cats and dogs Photoshopped into them. It’s the only way I’m going to be able to avoid getting bored with every new development.

Anyway, the big “news” today is that Conan and Fox have been talking, and at the moment it seems there’s a pretty good chance O’Brien could leave NBC. Or, as the New York Post says, he could be Conan “O’Flyin’” to a new network. Ha ha, good one, newspaper Jay.

“This level of sh- – -iness was not expected,” one source said. “He’s done a great job for NBC. He moved his entire staff, he moved his family to LA. And five months later, they repay him like this?” [...]

Conan, an insider said, “may not be operating on [NBC's] timetable [to shift the shows after the Olympics]. He’s not going to be stampeded. This came out of the blue, and it will take him a while to figure out what’s best for him.” O’Brien rep Leslee Dart last night said only that “Conan has made no decisions yet.”

Stay tuned for the next development, when there’s a new rumor about what Conan might do according to one person speaking on condition of anonymity! Yay! I just love the continuous news cycle!

Below: audio (well, a YouTube video that really only has audio) of Patton Oswalt speaking about the situation on the excellent Comedy Death-Ray Radio. He says a lot of things that will ring true for comedy die-hards without attacking the quality of Jay Leno’s work, which is actually kind of impressive. I applaud him for not bringing up that time Jay Leno stole a bunch of babies from an orphanage and ran them over with a vintage car.