MattFancy Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/21/news/Conan_OBrien_NBC_severance_deal/index.htm?hpt=T2 Conan Inks Severance Deal With NBC NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Conan O'Brien has signed a deal with NBC to walk away from "The Tonight Show," the network confirmed Thursday. "NBC confirms a deal is signed and an official announcement will be made this morning," said NBC spokeswoman Allison Gollust. The network did not provide details on the agreement, but the deal is expected to include a severance payment of about $32 million for O'Brien plus about $12 million for his staff, according to the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper said the pact could contain a "nondisparagement clause" for both O'Brien and the network. It is also expected to bar O'Brien from appearing on other shows or hosting his own show for a period of time, sources told the Journal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 The question is how long period of time is, probably until September 2009. Which is stupid. Bye Bye Conan...your shows on NBC provided humor to many, including me. Hopefully you will succeed on another network with your brand of comedy. Man that guy is hilarious..."I know foo' but you only been funny fo' 8" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedskinsTime Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 I hope Conan comes back at some point. I always enjoyed him more than Letterman or Leno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 The question is how long period of time is, probably until September 2009. Which is stupid. Bye Bye Conan...your shows on NBC provided humor to many, including me. Hopefully you will succeed on another network with your brand of comedy. Man that guy is hilarious..."I know foo' but you only been funny fo' 8" So Conan really does have a wayback machine? cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackest Eyes Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Conan is going to wipe the floor with Leno in ratings if he goes to Fox. NBC is so incredibly stupid. I will laugh if Leno's ratings are as bad as what Conan had. Leno will now have as much support in the 10 PM primetime spot as Conan did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Well at least Conan's staff is getting a nice severance package http://abcnews.go.com/Business/nbc-confirms-deal-conan-obrien-speeds-nbc-show/story?id=9621682 O'Brien had plenty to say about the prospect of his being unable to retain intellectual property rights for some of the material he created at NBC. "Isn't it great to live in a country where a cigar-smoking dog puppet and a bear that masturbates are considered 'intellectual property?'" he joked on the show Tuesday night.If O'Brien creates a new show on another network, he purportedly won't be allowed to bring some of his best-known bits and characters, such as Triumph the Insult Comic and the Masturbating Bear, among others, with him. The characters and sketches, according to the Hollywood Reporter, are intellectual property that belongs to NBC, and the network doesn't plan to give them up. Hopefully Conan will be able to create new IP. In my studies of intellectual property cases I've read that anything you or a group invent for a company belongs to the company and not you, so I'm not surprised he can't bring the Bear with him. This will be a chance for him to be innovative and create new bits, and I have no question he has the capability to do so. During the writer's strike he came up with some nice ****. LMAO Leno and O'Brien have both taken shots at NBC and, in some cases, at each other since NBC announced its late-night shuffle. But it has been O'Brien's bitterly comic jabs at the pea**** network -- Tuesday night, O'Brien went bilingual in his attacks, saying in Spanish that "NBC is run by brainless sons of goats who eat money and crap trouble" -- that seem to have driven his ratings higher and encouraged passionate fans, including hundreds who held rallies in four U.S. cities earlier this week in support of the host many refer to by the nickname "CoCo." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooper Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 You know this is really getting to Leno when he went after Letterman's wife last night. At least he's finally showing the super nice guy stuff is all an act, something everyone behind the scenes has always known. Hey, maybe it will make him more interesting to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-best-signs-from-the-im-with-coco-rallies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Conan blows $1.5M of NBC's money: http://www.buzzfeed.com/digg/conan-obriens-15-million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Conan blows $1.5M of NBC's money:http://www.buzzfeed.com/digg/conan-obriens-15-million Goes a long way from his late-night bits about how cheaply his show is produced, reusing the same costume for who knows how many different characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Weirdo Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 I love it. Jay is Mr. Nice Guy and I'm so safe I'm not going to cross too many lines. Conan is going all out. I loved his monologue: "Kids you can do anything you want to. That is unless Jay Leno wants to do it, too." Jay, go **** yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Weirdo Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Also I love how many shots have been taken at Carson Daly. I didn't even realize he was on the air anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOLASKINSFAN Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 The question is how long period of time is, probably until September 2009. Which is stupid. Bye Bye Conan...your shows on NBC provided humor to many, including me. Hopefully you will succeed on another network with your brand of comedy. Man that guy is hilarious..."I know foo' but you only been funny fo' 8" I love how you guys are making a maytr out of a guy getting paid $30,000,000 not to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 The money thing aside. NBC I hope has hurt itself for a long time. I want to see Conan land somewhere else, have a new show that lasts a long time and makes whoever a ton of money well after they discover that bringing Jay back to 11:30 doesn't do anything positive. The winner in all of this is Letterman. The folks who liked Conan will go to Letterman if they want a talk show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECU-ALUM Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 I would give just about a year's pay for Johnny Carson to comeback from the dead and hear what he has to say about this situation and what has happend to the show he built up and made a television institution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IONTOP Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 I would give just about a year's pay for Carson to comeback from the dead and hear what he has to say about this situation and what has happend to the show he built up and made a television institution. He's on at like 1:35 or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar78 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Well at least Conan's staff is getting a nice severance packagehttp://abcnews.go.com/Business/nbc-confirms-deal-conan-obrien-speeds-nbc-show/story?id=9621682 Hopefully Conan will be able to create new IP. In my studies of intellectual property cases I've read that anything you or a group invent for a company belongs to the company and not you, so I'm not surprised he can't bring the Bear with him. This will be a chance for him to be innovative and create new bits, and I have no question he has the capability to do so. During the writer's strike he came up with some nice ****. LMAO Yeah. I don't know what the wording of the termination agreement is, but I think new characters like "Victory: the disparaging hilarious cat" or "Self pleasuring Sloth" will have a lot of mileage just 'cause it can be a direct F-U to NBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECU-ALUM Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 He's on at like 1:35 or something... Nice shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartacus87 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 I would give just about a year's pay for Johnny Carson to comeback from the dead and hear what he has to say about this situation and what has happend to the show he built up and made a television institution. Well, considering that he was writing jokes for Letterman to use on The Late Show, up until his death, I think you can understand at least his feelings on Leno running The Tonight Show. He'd probably just say "I told you so" about Leno in all of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted January 21, 2010 Author Share Posted January 21, 2010 With Friday being the last Tonight Show with Conan, how should he end his short run? He can't return to TV until Sept. 1, which I suspect will be on FOX. Though Fox is going to have to convince those stations Conan will do more for them than reruns of Seinfield, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted January 21, 2010 Author Share Posted January 21, 2010 http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/01/conan-obrien-leaves-nbc-for-45-million-deal.html $33 million isn't bad. Also, getting $12 million for his staff is pretty good also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted January 21, 2010 Author Share Posted January 21, 2010 Conan is free to return to TV on Sept. 1, so how should he do it. Obviously, first he has to find a new network but he will have plenty of time for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBash Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Jeez, just watching Jay Leno and Conan these past few weeks, you can tell which one is on fire. I'm watching Jay right now and he is so unfunny. The jokes his writers gave him are not funny at all either. Conan is killing it. I don't watch Letterman that much but I think I'm going to switch over to him or Kimmel during late night if I am up until Conan gets a new show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Lol Pee Wee Herman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 It was great to see PeeWee back in character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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