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VIDEO Neil Young “Long May You Run” on Conan O’Brien’s last Tonight Show

ByAsa Hawks

Conan O’Brien ended his 20-plus years of working for NBC tonight and not only did he do it with class and dignity, he did it with the Godfather of Grunge Neil Young!!

Conan introduced Neil Young by saying that after it was announced that Conan would no longer be the host of The Tonight Show, Neil was the first to call and offer his support. Neil delivered an acoustic performance of “Long May You Run” that must have punched Conan right in the chrome heart.

Watch the performance!

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2004 VIDEO: Jay Leno five years ago on future of the ‘The Tonight Show’: “Conan, take it over, it’s yours”

ByStarcasm Staff

In 2004 Jay Leno felt it was necessary to address the then recent disclosure that he would be handing over The Tonight Show reins to Conan O’Brien in 2009. Leno wanted his audience to understand his conviction as it pertained to this important changing of the guards.

Here’s the last thing he says:

“Because you know when I took this show over, boy there was a lot of animosity between me and Dave and who’s gonna get it, and quite frankly, a lot of … good friendships were permanently damaged. And I don’t want to see anybody ever have to go through that again. Cause this show is like a Dynasty. You hold it, and then you hand it off to the next person. And I don’t want to see all the fighting and all the ‘who’s better?’ and nasty things back and forth in the press so right now, here it is, Conan, it’s yours, see you in 4 years buddy!”

See the video of the full announcement and read the complete transcription!

Conan O’Brien issues official statement, doesn’t want The Tonight Show to move

ByAsa Hawks

There have been all sorts of rumors circulating and jokes being made about NBC’s decision to move Jay Leno back to his 11:30 PM time slot, bumping The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien to 12:05 AM and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to 1:05 AM. Conan himself has made a few cracks about the move, most of which have involved not-so-humorous barbs at NBC. But so far there hasn’t been much to come out of the Conan camp officially.

Well, that’s changed now! Conan issued a long statement this afternoon that addresses all aspects of the NBC Late Night shake-up, including the possibility of moving to another network. Read the entire statement.

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Jay Leno moving back to 11:30 Conan O’Brien to midnight or nothing

ByAsa Hawks

NBC late night is about to get a controversial shakeup as Jay Leno will reclaim his 11:30 PM time slot, this according to sources for TMZ. According to the sources, The Jay Leno Show goes on vacation February 1 and Jay will be back in his old 11:30 PM stomping ground after the Olympics. Still…

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VIDEO William Shatner and Sarah Palin together on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien

ByAsa Hawks

Former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin got some sweet revenge tonight thanks to Conan O’Brien and The Tonight Show. William Shatner read some of Sarah Palin’s tweets as beat poetry on the show back in July. Ol’ Will kicked things off by reading some passages “Mr Tambourine”-style from Sarah Palin’s recently published autobiography Going Rogue.

It was then Sarah’s turn and she delivered some hilarious lines from William Shatner’s own autobiography, Up Till Now. Here’s the classic performance: