In 2009, NBC handed the show over to Conan O'Brien, but the move backfired and the network reinstated Leno.
Kyle seemed humble during a guest appearance to promote his book on TV's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" last year.
When NBC moved Conan O'Brien to 11:35 pm in 2009, the early results were strong but Mr. O'Brien's ratings quickly slumped.
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What will happen to NBC's once-dominant late-night lineup and its soon-to-be displaced Conan O'Brien has fast become the industry's favorite parlor game.
Conan O'Brien, the Smurfs, homemade cases for high-tech gadgets and one-of-a-kind clothes are among the hottest items right now in this creative universe.
Speaking from a rain-soaked red carpet, the star pondered her employer's very public spat over the talk show contracts of Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien.
While Jay Leno was in the midst of beating out Conan O'Brien for The Tonight Show, everything from their jokes to their audience loyalty was compared.
On an appearance last year on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, for example, Shimabukuro played an amplified rock solo that sounded very much like an electric guitar.
"I got a call from The Simpsons saying 'We're going to shoot that episode next year', " Apatow told Conan O'Brien on his Serious Jibber-Jabber internet show.
Late-night hosts Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien plan to return with fresh episodes on Jan. 2, ending two months of reruns care of the Hollywood writers' strike.
Thus far the game of late-night musical chairs--Conan O'Brien took the reins at The Tonight Show in June-- hasn't played out as well as it could have for NBC.
Meyers, 39, would be the fourth comedian to host "Late Night" since it went on the air in 1982, starting with David Letterman and followed by Conan O'Brien and Fallon.
To make the cut, the comics had to count stand-up as their primary income, a qualification that left funnymen like Jerry Seinfeld, Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno off this year's list.
No topic was off-limits when Conan O'Brien, Tyra Banks, Shaquille O'Neal, Seth MacFarlane, Jack Dorsey, Quincy Jones and Russell Brand discussed friendship, insecurities, success, worries, life, death and nearly everything in between.
Other winners include HBO Go (four awards, including best media streaming service), Lady Gaga (for best celebrity-fan social presence), Conan O'Brien (for best celebrity-fan website) and The New York Times (best news social presence).
Late-night talk-show host Conan O'Brien headlined the event.
Back in 2004, NBC announced it would pass the Tonight Show baton to rising star Conan O'Brien in 2009, a decision heavily criticized in the press given Leno's continued ratings dominance and eagerness to keep working.
Letterman's deal gives his show a distinct advantage over the likes of Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel, who face the prospect of presenting an hour-long nightly television show without scribes to pen their monologues, sketches and other written material.
Just when the publicity started to ebb, the puppet held a well-attended press conference to announce he was suing a writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien who had complained that the spokespooch was a lame imitation of his own puppet character.
Though the stoppage over new media compensation will continue indefinitely, a handful of those shows, including General Electric -owned NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as well as Walt Disney-owned ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, will return to the screen without writers on Jan. 2.
While we're at it, we'll be speaking with the producer and director of the classic film Baraka and its newly released spiritual sequel, Samsara and paying a visit to the gang at Breakfast New York, who have worked with the likes of Google and Conan O'Brien to turn advertising into art.
Though the stoppage over new media compensation will continue indefinitely, a handful of those shows, including General Electric -owned (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as well as Walt Disney-owned (nyse: DIS - news - people )ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, will return to the screen without writers on Jan. 2.
This week's TBS press release on extending "Conan" through November 2015 touches only briefly on O'Brien's conventional Nielsen ratings performance among young adults.
Deserving of it or not, Leno has become the villain to O'Brien's victim, with "Team Conan" campaigns sprouting up online and off.
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