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>> i think you've really done a great job to carve out a wonderful identity for yourselves and i really, really appreciate that. i think you did a nice job. >> thank you. >> big brother dave came in and stuck up for us. >> i was just, you know, turning point. >> audiences got better. finally, we got a longer renewal than 13 weeks. >> and then, somebody who worked the network went to visit his kid in college. and realized that everybody, that age, is talking about that show. >> i'm hearing from college kids, like, this is their guy. conan o'brien. they love him. and slowly, very, very slowly, c...
>> and i can remember sitting with jay. and -- and writers. and we were, all, just kind of like looking at the tv screen, just stunned. >> 9/11 is such a shock to -- to country, that television, itself, could not go back on the air. >> people were still afraid, at the time. that we weren't going to be able to be funny. after something so horrific had happened. >> i know, for the first few days, we were wondering whether we would ever do a show, again. >> the decision to go back on television, after 9/11, was extremely difficult. no one knew what to do.
>> as you know, the hollywood community was shocked to learn that this type of thing was going on. >> jay kills it, the whole show. >> well, i mean, obviously, you know, so many bad things about it. so i don't know where to begin. but one of them was that, you know, embarrassment i caused the people i have been working with the last year on this -- on this film. >> and when you embarrass tom arnold, that's really -- >> at that point, in july, 1995, jay became carson. like, he became the voice of the viewer. and from that day on, jay leno and the "tonight show" are number one. a late-night crow...
The fact that we are, both, hard workers. and we will do whatever is in our power to get better. jay's strength was the monologue and joke telling. >> and jay felt in studio 1 in burbank, the audience was too far away from him. the band was too far away. so we got a new-set design. jay, now, is working closer to the audience. we've extended the monologue because that's where jay's muscles are. >> i can't help thinking, fur if you are a peeping tom, right, of all the people you could go after, why pick madonna? what part of this woman haven't you seen, already? >> jay was rolling. and was like ...