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>> can you name any of them? >> freedom of speech. >> freedom of speech. >> jay was a man of the people. he wasn't playing to the television critics. he wasn't playing to the comedy critics. his humor was for america. >> around this time, jay leno is doing great, basically cruising in first place. letterman on cbs is in second place. craig ferguson takes over what is now called "the late late show," which is the show that followed david letterman. you have conan. conan is really hot at the 12:30 hour on nbc. and you have jimmy kimmel. he has entered the arena as an abc alternative. he is on at...

I had a horrible dream. i couldn't breathe. i felt like i was suffocating. then i woke up and realized, oh, conan was holding a pillow over my face. hey, hey! >> five years goes by pretty quickly. and we got to that moment, and we said oh shit, because the fact is jay was still doing incredibly well. >> so after like 17 years, they still have the number one guy. >> jay had the point of view that i shouldn't leave until i start to decline. >> i felt an obligation to the fact that i gave my word to conan about "the tonight show," so now we're faced with a dilemma of we have two guys who want "th...

I just thought, i can't believe i get to do this. >> good lord. pearl jam. we'll take a break. we'll be right back. >> the first couple of weeks of results were very promising and surpassed what the expectations were. but i think conan was feeling the pressure, and who wouldn't? >> conan gets three months on the air as the host of "the tonight show" before jay leno gets his prime time show at 10:00 and becomes conan's lead-in again. >> late night television is very dependent on leading. lead-in. so having jay at 10:00, our hope, my hope is that he would do really well. it didn't work out that ...

Him at some point and that jay is not going to go forever. >> the only way to really keep both of these guys at nbc was that we were eventually going to have to promise conan that he would take over "the tonight show." but we didn't want that to happen any time soon because we knew jay was on top of the world. >> the suggestion was that we offer jay leno an extension of his tonight show contract for five years and that conan o'brien would be made the host of "the tonight show." >> this was the ultimate prize. and i think conan's feeling was if i can get "the tonight show" and keep doing late n...

>> how many commandments are there? >> ten. >> can you name any of them? >> freedom of speech. >> freedom of speech. >> jay was man of the people. he wasn't playing to the television critics. he wasn't playing to the comedy critics. his humor was for america. >> around this time, jaylen mow is doing great, basically cruising in first place. letterman on cbs is in second place. craig ferguson takes over what is now called the late late show which is the show that followed david letterman. you have conan. conan is really hot at the 12:30 hour on nbc. and you have jimmy kimmel. he has entered the...