Beaten like an ugly step-child, Conan O’Brien is very close to signing a nearly $40 million deal to walk away from his job hosting NBC’s ‘The Tonight Show’. My job sucks. $40 million to quite a job? It’s hard to feel sorry for the ousted O’Brien, although I do find myself thinking NBC are being bullies. Whatever the case may be, Conan is being compensated…
The exit agreement, which could be completed as early as Tuesday, bars O’Brien from bad-mouthing his former NBC bosses. News of the deal comes hours after Leno tried to explain his side of the dispute with NBC during the monologue of his soon-to-be cancelled 10 p.m. show. He said his expected return to 11:35 p.m. could become official today — and called frenemy Conan O’Brien a “great guy.”
I’ll miss the cat fights between Conan, NBC, and Leno. It will only get bitchier and bitchier as the week progresses. Oh, what fun this will be. TiVo is set!
