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Jay Leno video wrap up from January 18

By April MacIntyre Jan 19, 2010, 15:45 GMT

Jay Leno and Hugh Jackman - © Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos

The Jay Leno show drama is still unfolding, as Conan looks to take a large payday, take care of his soon-to-be unemployed staff and split the late night scene for at least a year, per reports from the Wall Street Journal this morning.

Our friends at TV By The Numbers posted a great analogy of the cocked-up late night maneuverings that talks about the situation in sports terms:

In sports, this sort of drama plays out all the time. Two or more people competing for their dream job with only one person emerging the victor.

Jay Leno channeling Bernie Maddoff? Please! Jay Leno is channeling Brett Favre! “Hey, I’m great at what I do, and not only do you not want to kiss my butt, you don’t want me in the job at all? Whoa!”

The drama with the Tonight Show is that it wound up going even a step further. Imagine if Green Bay announced in a couple of weeks that they were getting rid of Aaron Rodgers and bringing back Brett Favre. That’s not going to happen, for a lot of reasons, but if it did happen, we’d be hearing about it regularly for months on sports talk.

It did happen with the Tonight Show and the drama is gripping.

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