Brian Damage
12-17-2008, 12:36 AM
O’Brien at least won’t have to worry about a true nightmare booking scenario on his first night at “Tonight”: Jay Leno visiting David Letterman. Mr. Leno said the Letterman show had indeed invited him to be a guest that night (June 1). “I would leave the show on Friday and do Dave on Monday,” he said, relating a plan undoubtedly hatched at a time when the Letterman show expected Mr. Leno to be leaving NBC (perhaps in an eight-cylinder huff) for ABC.
Not that it was really going to happen. “It would look like an insult to Conan,” Mr. Leno said. “I would never do that.”
An appearance with Mr. Letterman “would be fun to do sometime,” Mr. Leno said. The relationship between the two late-night titans has often resembled a production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” But Mr. Leno is feeling mellow about it these days. He said he had recently seen YouTube clips of some of his guest shots on Mr. Letterman’s old NBC show.
“Doing his show in the ’80s, going on and zinging back and forth, that was the most fun for me of anything I ever did in show business,” he said of their relationship.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/arts/television/16leno.html?ref=television
Not that it was really going to happen. “It would look like an insult to Conan,” Mr. Leno said. “I would never do that.”
An appearance with Mr. Letterman “would be fun to do sometime,” Mr. Leno said. The relationship between the two late-night titans has often resembled a production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” But Mr. Leno is feeling mellow about it these days. He said he had recently seen YouTube clips of some of his guest shots on Mr. Letterman’s old NBC show.
“Doing his show in the ’80s, going on and zinging back and forth, that was the most fun for me of anything I ever did in show business,” he said of their relationship.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/arts/television/16leno.html?ref=television