NBC shits the money bed.

I grew up watching Late Night with Conan O'Brien, especially during its heyday in the late 90's, and always hoped the former Simpsons and SNL writer would eventually displace Jay Leno's style of folksy, moron-targeting shtick with smarter and edgier material. That's why it pains me to see NBC doing to O'Brien what it did to David Letterman almost twenty years ago; reneging on its word and fucking him over, publicly.

In case you weren't aware, last week NBC announced it was moving The Jay Leno Show into the coveted 11:35 time slot and pushing The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien back to 12:05, witch is technically tomorrow morning, not tonight. O'Brien's opening monologue last night was one of the best of his career, as he unloaded on his bosses:



The next morning O'Brien announced he wasn't going to play along:



I didn't quite realize how badly NBC had shit the money bed until I saw this clip of Bill O'Reilly commenting on the whole fiasco and found myself agreeing with him:



It only takes a few minutes for O'Reilly and Goldberg to veer of track and start using the whole affair to somehow bash Obama, but there's no denying that NBC is in serious trouble. As for Conan, one can only hope he and his staff land somewhere fitting their caliber and talent. If such a place still exists on network television.