Jay Leno revealed that NBC lacked faith in him too. Last night, Jay Leno addressed the whole Conan O’Brien and NBC situation,and he revealed that NBC didn’t have faith in him either. Jay said, ” In 2004, I’m sittin in my office,an NBC executive comes in and says to me, listen Conan O’Brien has gotten offers from other networks, and we don’t want him to go so we’re going to give him the Tonight Show. And I said, well I’ve been number one for twelve years. They said we know that,but we don’t think you can sustain that. I said, ok how about until I fall to number 2 and then you fire me? No, we’ve made this decision. I said, that’s fine and don’t blame Conan O’Brien. Nice guy,good family guy,great guy. He and I have talked,and not a problem since then.”

Then later on, he said, ” So time goes by and we stay number one up until the day we leave. NBC says we wanna keep you here. I said, oh,oh ok. What are your ideas?” That’s when they offered him the prime time 10pm gig. Jay said that it would never work,but he said ok along as he gets to keep his staff. Then they guaranteed him 2 years on the air. Next, he explained that after things didn’t workout, they started to come up with the ideas of switching time slots. And NBC was sure that Conan would agree to it. When Conan didn’t agree, they approached Jay and offered him the “Tonight Show” back. He concluded by saying, Conan’s been great throughout the whole process.

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