I'm with CoCo.

I cannot remember the last time I watched The Tonight Show.

The only time in recent memory I watched something even remotely related to late night TV was to watch Letterman's clip on YouTube about the extortion attempt. And I didn't even know Jimmy Kimmel existed until Sarah Silverman started fucking Matt Damon.

So as far as which host is better or which show is better or any of that stuff, I couldn't tell you. Truly, I have no dog in that fight.

But I do notice when people aren't being treated fairly. And from the sounds of it, so do most people, when it comes to the latest NBC late-night debacle.

From what I can see, Conan made no bones about wanting the Tonight show for years. And NBC gave it to him. Bye Leno, Hello Conan. Simple.

But when push came to shove, either someone at NBC wasn't ready to let Leno go, or Leno has pictures of someone at NBC having intimate relations with farm animals, because now they want to put Leno back on at 11:35. Or in other words, they want to give him back the Tonight show.

Sure, they're not going to *call* it the Tonight show. It's just a variety show! On at 11:35! The Tonight show is on at 12:05, it's still the Tonight show! (Except it isn't. It's really the Tomorrow show, but whatever.)

But I know back when I was young and did things like watch late night TV, I only ever watched the first half hour. Saturday Night Live just wasn't funny after the first musical interlude. They put the A stuff on first; by the time you got the last half hour, it was so lame the studio audience wasn't even laughing. The networks know when the viewers show up. And they won't show up for a delayed Tonight show. Conan's right: this move will kill the Tonight show franchise. It will never, ever, get the numbers that it used to get at 11:35. And then NBC will use those low ratings as a reason to sack Conan and can that silly half hour Jay Leno show and just reinstate him into Tonight which is what they wanted to do in the first place.

It's a nasty move. NBC is being completely dishonest. They're using a whole lot of weasel language and sly maneuvers to basically give Tonight back to Leno instead of simply just ...doing it.

I mean, truly. If you had been working your ass off to get a promotion and you finally get it once the old guy retired or left or whatever - who cares because you're now the new VP of Development and you're doing exactly the job they promoted you to do - and then a couple of months later they hire the guy you replaced back and move him in to your office and give him more money and ask him to do everything that you're doing but they tell you, don't worry! Your job isn't going to change! You're the VP of Development and he's the VP of Strategic Development! Totally different! And suddenly your calendar is empty and your inbox doesn't bing anymore and you're left stunned and confused and wondering why there's still a rubber glove hanging out of your underwear.

It's truly a loathsome way to treat someone. It lacks honesty. It lacks integrity. It lacks humanity.

I get that TV is all about ratings and advertising revenues. I get that if you don't get the eyeballs, you don't get the airtime, especially in this ADD age. So if Conan isn't working out, he isn't working out.

And if that's the case? Then be honest, NBC. If you want to put Leno back on the Tonight show, put him back on. Save everyone some pain. And if doing that means you'll have to pay Conan and his team a lot of money, then so be it. That's the high price of integrity.