On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course, Lorne Michaels owns part of the Fallon show (and owns part of > Conan's NBC work, at least the "Late Night" part)--I don't know if he > controls the licensing as he does for "SNL."
When Conan was going through his troubles with NBC I wondered why Michaels did not step in to protect his part of the show. I read in Carter's book that Michaels gave up his share of the show and his executive producer title several years before. I also listened to a podcast interview with Late Show writer Bill Scheft (link below). It's an hour interview, and worth listening to if you like that sort of thing, and Bill got off into a Leno tangent while talking about Bill Hicks. Scheft's wife Adrianne Tolsch is a standup comic, worked with Hicks in Houston, recommended Hicks to Bill, and Bill brought it to Bob Morton's attention and eventually got him booked on Late Night. When the interviewer said he had heard that it was Leno who got Hicks booked Scheft said, "Jay tells stories" and that is not the first instance where the way Leno remembers something is not the same as everybody else remembers it. Scheft then said he could not believe the story Jay was telling about the recent cuts and the way he was trying to make himself look like a hero for taking a pay cut when staff was getting laid off. He said at the Late Show Dave and the staff all took pay cuts a couple of years ago but they made sure nobody got laid off. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
