Dear NBC,Regarding your problem with our two local guys, Jay Leno (Andover) and Conan O'Brien (Brookline), your proposed solution is the dumbest thing we've heard.
When Jay Leno retired from late night, you thought "Aw, he's such a nice guy. Just let him crash on the couch for a while." So you cleared out all your cooler, edgier houseguests to make room for a retiree (Southland's now stuck crashing over at TNT). His show took away the coveted 10pm time slot, when it's fair game to show dead bodies and naked butts. And guess what? We didn't want to watch.
Poor Jay and his poor, poor ratings. It suddenly seems that you, NBC, need him off your couch.
What is insane, however, is that your network thinks bumping Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show back to midnight will solve the problem. It won't.
You know the coveted 18-34 demographic -- those of us who stay up to watch late night television? We like Conan. He's closer to our age. He used to write for the Simpsons. We like his jokes better. If you push his show back to midnight, we're going to watch Jimmy Kimmel. Jay Leno's show was funny, in a grandfather's humor kind of way. The era has passed. Let it go, NBC. You can't call a mulligan on your television audience.
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