You have to realize that while the hosts themselves are multi-millionaires, they have an entire staff of people who are not. Conan fought NBC to make sure his entire staff received severance pay and for several months he actually paid his entire staff their salaries out of his own pocket.

I remember waiting for Jay Leno's show to finish for Conan to start. Team Coco

Team Coco all the way

Well this is just a proof that shit happens in life, and you can come out of it in the most graceful ways ever. Conan is a legend, he keeps inspiring me everyday

" Howard Stern rants about Jay Leno in 2010 and 12 years later becomes the germaphobe version of Don Imus."🤣🤣

Watching this reminds me why I don't have TV. "Let's schedule a segment where we cut to howard stern and have him talk about Leno. How long should we block for that? I dunno.. 30 seconds." What? Why have a person as big as Stern on, ask him controversial questions, and then not let him talk?

Howard Stern is one of the realest people to ever become famous. He wasn’t rich, he didn’t know anyone. He did everything on his own and he’s always kept it 100% honest

I'll take Conan and Letterman over Leno any day. It was refreshing to see so many other hosts call him out.

Leno was even worse than how Stern described. It was all agreed upon in 2004 that Conan was to replace Leno in 2009, so it was known for all those five years what the plan would be. It was an agreement in writing from every party. Not only did Leno refuse to bow out gracefully, he stuck around the NBC lobby and literally sabotaged Conan's shot just as Stern elaborated. I understand the dilemma of NBC executives who knew Leno moving to another network would be a loss for them but they agreed on all of this in 2004. Beyond that, why didn't Leno have some class and hand the reins over to Conan who deserved it? Why didn't Conan deserve a shot for all the years and patience he put in? Why does Leno feel he needs to be on TV after almost 20 years when he ended up retiring a few years after that mess anyway? Ego. Pure ego and vindictiveness that he was pushed out not on his own terms. It's not a secret most people in show business can't stand Leno, he has a history of being a phony "brat" as Letterman once put it, but Stern has the balls to say it out loud.

I'm proud of Conan for walking away from that dump. Howard you tell em how it is.

Leno only did so well in the ratings because right after Letterman went to CBS, a ton of CBS affiliates switched over to Fox and Letterman lost all that available market exposure. The idea that Leno consistently beat Letterman in the ratings is misleading.

What's the point in asking Stern a question if you're not going to let him finish an answer?

Now Stern is one of the biggest Lapdogs around for one side of the Aisle. He used to be the man when he spoke his actual mind.

Integrity is a keyword. love Conan. love Dave. love Howard. Guess who nobody loves.....

HOWARD will always be KING!!!!

now Conan's still doing well, although on a smaller TBS

I ADORE Howard Sterns completely justified hatred of Jay Leno.

Love him or hate him Howard Stern is an absolute genius at what he does. The reasons are obvious, one because he's honest, he is not phony or fake. Two the things he says are compelling. He demands you listen to him.

#HowardKnows

i LOVE how Freds laugh was picked up on mic....classic

"your name is harry, right?" lmao

the thing is, I have seen conan and letterman do things that are simply stunning. I have actually thought to myself, if this guy never told another joke this was worth it. I have never seen leno do anything brilliant, or witty, let alone stunning. except maybe how amazingly cowardly and backstabbing he can be.

0:40 The painting lol

Jay Leno's primetime ratings preemptively sabotaged any chance Conan had at a stable audience.

HAHA - "You have absolutely no one to go to Harry - you should stick with me" Gotta love Howard.

KING OF RADIO

You know what Conan has and other shows don't ? Jordan Schlansky

Harry got it 100% correct. The lead-in was gone. Why? Because Jay’s 10pm show wasn’t interesting to anyone and they turned the channel to another network. Watched the show there, which led-in to the late local news, which led-in to that network’s late show. Jay caused the lack of viewers on Conan’s show because everyone was tired of him and they changed the channel. “But they can change it back”. Sure they can. But how many people watch their favorite prime time show and then change the channel to another network’s late local news, and then change it to another station to watch a late show? Hardly anyone. NBC should have done the right thing and said, “Thanks for the memories, Jay.” A 100% parted ways with him. But he weaseled his way into a prime time slot and messed up the Tonight Show for Conan. Leno sucked, and will ALWAYS suck. He was a perv, too, as most of his jokes were sex jokes. He needs to just disappear.

"everybody talks about u runnin" "I'm a bike rider" 😒

He looks scarier with glasses but so gentle without. Very puzzling

I’ve never heard Howard speak so badly of anyone!😂😂😂😂😂

Haven’t watched Stern since 2005, man he was funny.

If you look at the summer ratings that year for Conans tonight show they weren't bad at all then Jay got his show at 10 then as a result even the local news channels had gone down creating a chain effect dropping everyone's ratings.

What Stern is saying is that Leno was supposed to have created a Michael Scott paper company

Jay was never funny, not once did I ever laugh at his so called jokes.

I love Howard!

Letterman's best move was to CBS, he got 25 million while Leno was making 3 million.

I love Howard Stern. I would like to see Jay Leno and Howard Stern go head to head.

(1) Jay Leno did not push Carson out of "The Tonight Show." He and *NBC* signed a deal stating he would get the show when Carson retired. It was Helen Kushnick who went behind Jay's back and planted stories that the network wanted Carson gone. Howard actually went on "TTS" and told Jay that *NBC* made the right decision. He's contradicting himself. (2) Dave took his time about deciding to move to *CBS.* He actually got *NBC* to offer him "TTS", and only decided to turn it down after Carson said that if he were in Dave's place, he'd leave. Further, Dave at that time was in his 40s, whereas Jay in the double 0's was 59 when his contract expired. It's a bit different expecting a guy almost sixty to pull up stakes and start over some place new. And Conan could've left when his contract was set to expire in early 2006, but he chose to accept *NBC's* "TTS" offer...at Jay's expense. (3) Howard was apparently unaware that when requested by *NBC* to move back to 11:35, Jay asked if he could get out of his contract. *NBC* said no. So Jay couldn't just leave. And since Conan chose to resign, why should Jay have turned down the chance to return to the job that Conan had a hand in taking from him? (4) No, Jay didn't need the money, but he had a staff he wanted to keep employed (just like Howard does). And Howard says he quit *NBC* once, but after this interview he accepted an offer to be a judge on "America's Got Talent" which meant working for the network that re-hired Jay as host of "The Tonight Show." Did Howard need the money that badly? And yet he talks about Jay lacking integrity. Double standard.

"Nobody has better show-biz insight than me, Right Robin? I'm always right, Right Robin? Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoooooo! Tell em Fred!"

Thank you Stern 🎈

And yet Stern turned into a Jay Leno who wouldn't let go.

"Slowly I turn..." the coolest Little Rascals skit

What!!? I just watched a video the other day of Howard on jay Leno's show calling him the nicest guy who never speaks ill of anyone and just on and on praise for Jay. Howard you don't even keep your own opinions straight.

I like Howard & all but it was actually Artie Lange, Not Howard Stern, who predicted the whole Conan/Leno "Tonight Show" debacle. Just throwing that out there, since Stern loves to tell anyone who'll listen about how he's an original who invented everything.

"You've got nothing to go to, you should stick with me!" LOL.. Love that ego.

Just don't blame Conan.

aww what was the "slowly i turn" reference to again?

King of all media.. that didn’t really work out..

Now NBC got Jimmy Faglony 😂

The “king of all media” doesn’t have audio lmfao

looking at it from the bright side. its actually great Conan did not get that job because if he did we wouldn’t have the Conan we know now. love to Team Coco!!

Howard Stern is the man.

Whatever you say about Jay Leno if NBC says NO he goes nowhere with whatever you think is up his sleeves.

Harry should stop interrupting.

The interviewer is clearly pissing Stern off by constantly interrupting him.

Love Howard and Conan!!!

And look at Leno now. The karma train finally hit him 🤣

@scaryninja1693 Bill Hicks has post-death material?

Leno is the only late night I hate. Ferguson is the best, followed by Conan, Letterman, and Fallon.

Not happy how the execs handled everything but I think it was just a result that Conan, although very talented and funny, did not draw the traditional audience as much as Leno. I believe it was because Conan's branding as late night following Jay just did not transfer to the 11:30 time slot. People were "trained" to think of Conan as the very late show for the "young people". I observed this by watching my own mother.

Johnny Carson David.Letterman Best Ever! And thank you.Howard Stern so Raw unCut BraVo

That reporter simped HARD for Leno.

Talked over Howard the whoooole time. Grr

Howard Stern, on the CBS Early Show? Dang, the world has changed.

How am I supposed to get any work done when the algorithm sends me down this rabbit hole??

DAVID LETTERMAN THE BEST

I don’t miss free radio, right Robin?

I still can't believe jimmy Kimmel has a show.

After being able to examine this objectively 14 years later (I was in high school when this was happening and followed it pretty closely) I feel like Leno was portrayed rather unfairly in this. He had a pay and play contract (which was a stroke of genius on his part for demanding that) that would’ve cost NBC millions to more to get out of than Conan’s contract. This contract was signed months and months before anyone knew that NBC’s ratings for these two shows was going to tank, and Jay Leno’s show at 10 had been cancelled at the end. Don’t get me wrong, Conan got screwed out of this, but to blame Jay Leno for being such a powerhouse that he was able to get a better contract is a bit absurd. What was he supposed to do? Say no? It’s very likely that there was a massive penalty clause in his contract for refusing to go on tv. And his staff had been guaranteed their salary for two years. And he’s supposed to give that up for Conan? That doesn’t fly with me.

Howard invented walkin' around and askin' people stuff. Woody Allen invented clearing his throat.

You know what? You're right. I won't accept a late night battle dominated by an unfunny guy who gets ratings because among other things he's easier to fall asleep to.

harry cant just shut his mouth while howard is talking can he?

The reporter comes off as having some sort of bias for Leno. He is certainly in the age group.

I may be reading into this a bit too much, but it seems Howard may not like Jay Leno.

Merciless world.

This just popped up. why so old???????????? Is YT running out of material?????????

Ha! There we go. Well done.

Letterman is the Godfather of the modern late night talk show. Johnny Carson is the Godfather of the old traditional late night talk show and Leno is carrying on that tradition. But without Letterman, there'd be no Conan, Fallon, or Kimmel, at least not the way they are. He started that irreverent style.

The next big late night question: Will Letterman re-up in 2012? If not, who takes over for HIM? Also keep in mind that not only does Letterman host the show, he OWNS it. NBC owns the rights to the Tonight Show.

Carson was the best,also love Dave..Leno is low rent I never watched the show after he became the host!

Jeff Zucker was to blame. He got fired because of it and moved to Time Warner where he also got fired

LENO would still appear to open a Walmart or a Dairy Queen if asked!

"Jay Leno's ripping off a bit that my former, underpaid underling came up with, Right Robin!"

Leno was the embodiment of a cut throat opportunist. The ideal protagonist of the so-called American Dream.

If you read Howard's book Private Parts, Howard just praised Jay Leno as a great and funny comedian and ripped Johnny Carson. Now listen to him! Hindsight is 20/20 isn't it Howard?

Bill Hicks hated Leno, he called him a corporate shill in his pre-death material. Hicks couldn't have been more right. I watched Leno once (I'm from England, we don't get your talk shows without effort or subscriptions online really), I have to say it was the worst excuse for a talk show I've seen. The interviews revealed nothing and held little to no entertainment value, the jokes raised a polite chuckle at best and he did some product combinations thing for 10 minutes straight. Pathetic.

He said, "show biz animal".

Wouldn't you judge a karaoke contest for $100 million?

And wears a 25 dollar digital watch. True story.

And the comment you replied to is 10 months or older. And this video is over 3 years old, not 2.

And now they are losing money on the tonight show. They had to let go some employees recently and reduce Leno's pay (even though they have good ratings). Of course, this could just be indicative of the economic times too. I think all (or most) of the late night hosts have taken a pay cut so far.

Haha king of all media.... Me made up that name himself.

im not saying it doesnt matter, youre the one that seemed to think that when you first replied to me

Stearns says everyone stole something from him, it's just gotten ridiculous, nobody with any common sense at all would ever take this guy serious

king of all media’s mic doesnt work lol

Teehee. 1 day before my 13th bday.

Howard , Letterman already had is own show ....for 10 years ??? why would a network want to lose a host like that ? I would bet that if Dave was thinking about any type of move , his network would have sweetned up the deal to keep him right where he was . and I do not think Carson was pushed out of anywhere. Carson owned the tonight show and talk show television, he did what he wanted to . I suspect he picked Leno to take his chair. Carson was in charge

I never watched Leno at 10pm and just waited for Conan at 1130 and i liked Conan 10 times more than Leno on the tonight show. Jay was good but Conan was just better IMO.

also, nice Neumann