Dude went out with a class act speech on his final episode.  Shot straight, got emotional.  Anyone else see it?

So he decided to leave?

NBC and Leno are assholes.

Jay Leno's audience is getting old, and I hope the ratings get as bad as they can.


Conan rules!

It wasn't his say; they exercised the 30+ million dollar termination fee in his contract.

So basically he doesn't have to work for a few months and gets 30+ million dollars.

Actually, he could have moved the Tonight Show to 12:05 and stayed on, which is what NBC wanted to happen.

I guess that's good for him.

Is that so?  I could have sworn I heard that the 30m would have been his as long as they moved him out of the timelsot he was in.

Just in case you missed it.

Letterman's synopsis:

I haven't watched it yet. I think I'm gonna watch the last 3 episodes before I go to bed tonight.

You know what's hilarious? Watching Leno's speech from 5 years ago about how he was stepping down early to make room for Conan because he didn't want a big nasty fight over the Tonight Show to happen again and destroy a bunch of friendships. Like it did back in the early 90's... Watching Leno say that today makes him look like the biggest asshole on television. And I know it's all Zucker's fault and basically everybody at NBC is a moron, but Leno's coming out as the villain in all this for playing along with all the morons.

I'll follow Conan to the ends of the Earth. He was one of the last great writers of SNL and one of the last great writers of The Simpsons, and now he's the last great host of The Tonight Show. When he leaves a franchise it pretty much stops being interesting.