Back to Leno....Oh No!!!

My son was born the night that The Tonight Show ended. May 22, 1992. The night that Johnny Carson retired. The end of The Tonight Show.

Yes, I know that Jay Leno took over. Yes, I know that Johnny "endorsed" Jay Leno as his replacement.

But let's remember that was after a horrible fight with David Letterman, who ended up leaving the network to move to his own late night show.

Jay never made the show better - it was no longer "The Tonight Show".

15 years later, Jay Leno decided to "step down" and give Conan O'Brien - his handpicked successor - his chance at The Tonight Show. Time for a change and I for one was kind of looking forward to it.

You know - a whole new Tonight Show, not just the Jay Leno version of the Johnny Carson show. The new show was fun and while I did not watch it every day, I did tune in more that I had ever watched Leno - which was never.

So, less than 12 months later, Jay has decided he wants his old job back. In fact, if you read interviews over the last 12 months, he never "really wanted" to retire from the Tonight Show, he was "pushed" by network execs. So all of this stuff about how it just business may be true to a certain extent, but it's not JUST business.

Jay Leno wants The Tonight Show back. He can do all the cute jokes he wants, all the posturing about "business", but the bottom line is - he screwed Conan.

What did Conan joke NBC stands for? Was is "Never Back Conan?

NBC looks just as bad as Leno. Big bold move to fill 10pm with something different? Leno never made an effort - it was just his show at 10, not 11:30. No wonder it failed, no wonder Conan had lower ratings - Leno was and is NBC's priority.

Whatever the case is, I for one am not ever going to watch the Tonight Show again. Because with Jay Leno, it is not anything worth watching. I am going to go back to David Letterman. At least until Conan has a show.

Watching Leno - I say NO!