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Have conversations with jay leno about the five-year plan for conan o'brien to take over "the tonight show." and i would sense he was hurt by the decision. >> you ever sleep in the hospital? i spent 24 hours. i had a horrible drome. i couldn't believe. 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 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 ...

>> 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 ...

What do we do? >> we were hearing that abc was offering jay leno the 11 spot. >> have you thought about the abc thing, about whether you want to come over here and more importantly, what will become of me? >> i thought, well, you know what? i would rather follow an hour of "tonight show" than half hour of "nightline." and five years or whatever when jay was done, i would move into the 11:30 slot. >> i said nbc, would you release me from my contract? they said no, we want to keep you here. okay. what are your ideas? >> nbc wasn't doing well in prime time. so, we had an idea to strip a variety s...

>> be authentic and authentically weird. >> we've got a lot to do tonight. a whole big world of fix. >> let's leave there it. >> no, don't leave it there! why would you leave there it? there is a terrible place to leave it. ♪ . harvard didn't have a facebook. now we're at $1,000 people. >> the government is now on threat level orange. >> we must find terror wherever it hides. >> this is a time when the country is grappling with a post-9/11 world. >> thank you very much. welcome to "the tonight show." >> i think at this point jay likened himself to the troops'

>> i think the longer we just sit here, the more uncomfortable it will make jay. >> if you lose a television show, there's a part of you that feels rejected by america. and now jay leno! >> thank you very much. it is good to be home. good to be home. good to be home, kev. i'm jay leno. i'm your host, at least for a while. >> when we went back at 11:30, there was nothing, oh yea, about it. it was just march on.