Brotha ain't lettin' nothin' make him seem weak on this one, is he? Always be closing, eyes on the prize... No time for weird, wooly, wonderful moments like the 22-year old clip above. Look how much they like each other! What kind of world was that???
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.
We totally get Leno's point here, and he's right: it would be kind of weird to do Letterman before doing Conan, and there's no way that Conan would want Leno on his first show. So it's a little impossible. And yet -- we can't believe that Letterman's people did it just to be able to say they did. Letterman doesn't do anything just to say he did. If his show offered Leno a spot, they meant it -- and in offering it, they'd have made the first serious effort to bridge the long-standing divide between these two titans. Ah, well.
[via TVSquad]
