>> i still think in a world of audience fragmentation, "the tonight show" is the gold standard. it's always been a critical piece of the nbc brand. >> we have smart bombs and dumb reporters. >> jay stepped in there, dug himself out of that hole. that's amazing because the pie has been cut up so much. >> we did four more years, and then we had come to the end of our run. >> thank you, everybody. i don't like good-byes. nbc does. i don't care. i don't -- i don't care. >> as sad as it was that it ended, i felt really good walking out of there. >> and when people say to me, hey, why didn't you go to abc? why didn't you go to fox? i didn't know anybody over there. these are the only people i've ever known. >> we had all been through a lot together, grown up together, matured together, and it was an