Dave responded to Jay's "Don't Blame Conan"

Every day I wake up and say I'm going to keep my mouth shut about this NBC Tonight Show thing because honestly, folks, I don't have a dog in this fight, but this is the deal I met Jay Leno for. I don't know, 35 years, a long, long time and we used to be friends in the old days and what we're seeing now is kind of classic Jay and it's fun for me to see this, it's like, hey, there's the guy I know and I just thought, well, I better keep my mouth shut because you know, God knows I have my own problem, I really have my own problems, but I can't help it and while it's true, I don't specifically have a dog in this fight I think in some ways Paul and I are responsible for the disaster that is happening there now we are responsible yes because because of the great stench that we created when we left and left the great years and years ago they said well that will never happen again, very well that is which Jay says he was going to retire five years ago just to avoid that.

That's right, they wanted to avoid another transitional uproar. If I can conjure up a little French, please do. Last night, Jay gave his State of the Network speech, he did it and the State of the Network, the State of the Network, and he said we shouldn't

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Conan for what's going on, don't

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Kohn, don't blame Conan. Conan for what is going on and I told myself that no one is blaming and he further clarified that who should we really blame Conan's agents and managers, we should blame them because this is what they do and then Jay pointed out that he himself doesn't He has no agent or manager, so I beg you, ladies, gentlemen, on behalf of everyone involved, please don't blame, blame the corn, please, it's okay.

I know many of you think that Conan forced himself out of his job. I don't blame him, he's not that kind of person. never do that to yourself you're saying this is classic Jay please don't blame oh okay that's all I don't have tonight okay that's J He also let us know last night that Conan he's a family man, apparently yes, he said he was a good family a good family a good family man that's true, I hope you're not planning on blaming Conan, why did I do it? I mean, in the thousands and thousands of words that have been printed about this disaster, who has blamed Conan, no one.

I don't think so, no one has blamed Conan, so when five years ago, when NBC told Jay, you know Conan will take over your job in five years, that's when you said okay, no hard feelings, call ABC , you call Fox, you try to get my job that you leave, no, you don't hang out, you cross the street and punish NBC and make them eat your words well and then and then Conan has a job Jay has a job I have a job that , what's his name Lonnie Donegan, what's his name? Yeah, the pre-Alan Jimmy Fallon guy has a line of work Lonnie Donegan and then he has a job - yeah and Jimmy Kimmel has a job, yeah look, that's how things are supposed to work. just part of the evolution, okay, it's a Darwin, it's early dirt with Freesat Island, you get fired, get another job, don't wait around for someone to drop dead, well, I feel like I've gone too far once again.