Billo to Conan: Grow the Fuck Up
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010You’re disappointed. You feel you’ve been treated unfairly. Well maybe you have, but that’s the nature of the business: broken heart for every light, and so on. Actually, come to think of it, that’s the sort of thing that happens to all grown-ups.
And speaking of business, network television is a business: Leno had twice the Tonight Show ratings you have. Who wouldn’t want him back? And at a time when 10% of all Americans are unemployed, you’re going to be offered upwards of $30 million to walk away. How many times, over the last couple of years, have you mocked Wall Street and auto industry executives who were being obscenely rewarded for failure?
All we’re hearing from you now is how NBC is mistreating you — and you’re using the NBC airwaves to do it. You’re using your victim status to turn Jay Leno into a villain. If Leno’s return to Tonight does badly, well, that’ll show them. They’ll be sorry they were mean to me. Yeah, they’ll see, and then it’ll be too late.