President Barack can take a joke — and he knows how to deliver them, too. Complete Story...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would love to run for president — if he could.
Presidents have had their indulgences — Ronald Reagan loved jellybeans and Bill Clinton binged at McDonald's. What's President Barack Obama's weak spot?
“Saving Grace” is an unusual, quirky police drama that stars Academy Award winner Holly Hunter as a damaged Oklahoma City police detective. It’s been a critics’ darling since it debuted in 2007, and last season drew an audience of 3.7 million viewers to TNT every week. Yet the show's cancellation was announced in 2009 and it is now airing its final season, in large measure a victim of the bad economy.
After a smashing return, Jay Leno appears headed to a battle with David Letterman for late-night television supremacy.
Sarah Palin says she's going to play Tina Fey in an upcoming Las Vegas show.
Jay Leno received a warm welcome from his fans his first night back as the host of “The Tonight Show.” According to the Nielsen ratings, Leno beat rival David Letterman with 6.6 million viewers versus “Late Show’s” 3.8 million.
Jay Leno got a warm welcome from viewers with his return to late night on Monday.
A lot of things in the world have changed since May. But not Jay Leno hosting "The Tonight Show."
Jay Leno is pumping more music into his "Tonight Show" return.
Jay Leno ushered out one of television's biggest flops without sentiment on Tuesday, the final night of a prime-time experiment doomed by bad ratings and bad vibes.
Jay Leno has a message for David Letterman: Thanks.
The coveted female judge slot on “X-Factor” could go to creatively attired singer Lady Gaga. Reports coming out of the U.K. claim Simon Cowell has already offered her the job.
Barely a week after his knockout win in the Massachusetts Senate race, Scott Brown boasted Thursday that he can beat President Barack Obama.
In an interview with Jay Leno that airs Thursday, Oprah Winfrey asked the Leno whether he spoke to Conan O’Brien during the weeks the two were embroiled in an on-air late-night hosting war.
Jon Gosselin’s split from TLC might prevent him from appearing on other reality shows, but it doesn’t prevent him from promoting himself.
Late-night comic Jay Leno is the featured entertainer at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington.
Oprah Winfrey said she is set to interview Jay Leno, and her production company said an offer has been made to Conan O'Brien to appear.
No more negotiations for “The Tonight Show’s” Conan O’Brien. With his payout set, and his last episode scheduled for Friday night, the host is ready to pack his late-night bags and say goodbye to NBC. But O’Brien won’t simply deliver a not-so-fond farewell to the suits he’s skewered in his monologues for the last two weeks. No, along with them, he leaves behind his faithful dog.
With more than 30 networks, including NBC, airing the celebrity telethon for Haiti Friday night, the network has decided to shift its programming accordingly and air an edition of “Dateline” in order to maintain an appropriate tone with news programming through prime time. This inadvertently cuts Jay Leno’s remaining nights in the 10 p.m. timeslot by one.
Conan O'Brien all but posted a farewell banner on this week's "Tonight" shows as his exit negotiations with NBC neared their conclusion Wednesday.
Conan O'Brien ended his brief tenure on the "Tonight" show with a wide smile and a guitar in his arms.
NBC says it has reached a deal with "Tonight" host Conan O'Brien for his exit from the show, allowing Jay Leno to return to the late-night program he hosted for 17 years. The deal is worth a reported $44 million.
The White House Correspondents' Association Dinner was tonight, your only chance to catch Justin Bieber and Tim Geithner in the same room. You weren't invited; neither were we. What did we miss? Jokes!
In a surprise move—as in, I actually mentally checked that it was not April 1—Conan O'Brien announced today that he will launch a new talk show in the fall, not on Fox but on TBS. Yes, that TBS, the basic-cable channel. The new show will be at 11 p.m.
Ridcule for the regular targets including Tea Baggers, Palin and Hitler. Bonus a note for My Little Pony fans.
The former Republican vice presidential nominee turned into a standup comic on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" Tuesday, dropping one-liners about the White House, Congress and Fey -- the "Saturday Night Live" star known for her impression of the former Alaska governor.
Jay Leno's transition from primetime failure to once-and-future host of the Tonight Show lasted about a minute and a half.
Whether Leno is happy as well is hard to judge; all that's clear is he's not particularly straining to keep the job now that he has it again. Monday's opening monologue, supposedly Leno's strong suit, was tired, lame and unfunny.
Conan O'Brien emerges from the NBC/Leno/Tonight Show fiasco with a fan base that has been strengthened and maybe even expanded.
We won't be seeing Conan O'Brien hosting a TV show until at least September, a stipulation of his reported $44 million separation agreement with NBC.
Talk about much ado about nothing! Lets just let the funnier hosts have the prime spots. Leno has always been a mainstream funny host with broad appeal. Letterman is so dry that the laughs are few and his bandleader seems to dull any moment he is on camera.
Article pointing out the demographic challenges faced by Conan O'Brien. Specifically his unrealized strength among the prized young male 18 to 34 group....Largely unrealized because this group is so diverse in its media consumption.
See Kimmel, Letterman, Ferguson and Fallon all "say goodbye" to Conan in their own ways last night.
$45 million dollars for a totally talentless, but silly so called commedian is inconceivable. Though Leno has shown himself as an ass, I can hardly wait until he once again becomes host of the Tonight show. I will once more have something to watch and enjoy on late night TV.
Things are looking grim for their hero, but that won't stop them: hundreds of Chicagoans plan to march on NBC-5's downtown headquarters Monday night to keep Conan O'Brien on the air.
[In an agreement close to completion, "Tonight" host Conan O'Brien would leave NBC and free Jay Leno to reclaim the late-night show he stewarded for 17 years...]
A Conan fan criticizes Conan's performance on the late night slot.
The author says that Leno's decision to move Leno to prime time was the result of the classic business strategy of cutting costs, and explains how this kind of attitude is not only not always the smartest approach (ignoring many other factors that play into the success of any pro …
[But O'Brien rejected the idea, saying he hadn't been given the necessary time or support to establish himself as host.] Conan O'Brien could be given an infinite amount of time and he still would not be funny. He is simply silly and always will be.
A WSJ writer's thoughts - their truth immaterial - on the purpose of late-night.
Ebersol goes on to criticize Conan O'Brien for his refusal to adjust his persona and approach from 'Late Night' to 'The Tonight Show.' "He was just stubborn about not being willing to broaden the appeal of his show."
I think Leno is being a real ass. When he decided to leave the Tonight show he specifically requested that NBC fill his chair with Conan, and when he changed his mind about leaving the show NBC said no way. Now both are showing big signs of hypocrisy. I don't like Conan.
As NBC reeled from the fallout of Jeff Zucker's tacit admission that his attempt to refashion the customary way Americans watch prime time had failed, Hollywood was ablaze with baldenfreude.
Tuesday. TECHNOLOGY: After censoring search in China for years, Google threatens to leave the communist nation due to sophisticated cyber-attacks against its users HAITI: 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocks Haiti
What a shock. Jay Leno's prime-time stint didn't work...or more correctly - "Met the unfunny humor of network execs without the power of 60 years of show history behind him".
Conan O'Brien says he's rejecting NBC's attempt to move "The Tonight Show" to a post-midnight slot to accommodate Jay Leno's return to late-night. In a statement Tuesday, O'Brien says that NBC has given him a scant seven months to try to establish himself as host of "Tonight."