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Emotional moment. i love jay. he is such a kind person. i never saw jay treat anyone p poorly. what i was going to say is he just knew i would do anything to protect him. >> we've been friends for 40 years, and he's about to do his last good-bye. and i'm sitting there, and he reached over and grabbed my hand for a second and said, i'm really glad you were here. and that's as emotional as jay gets. >> in closing, i want to quote johnny carson, who was the greatest guy to ever do this job. and he said, i bid you all a heartfelt -- >> anybody who takes "the tonight show" job knows it comes with a...

I asked jay what does he think about all this. >> and they came to me and said we don't want to lose conan o'brien. okay, what does that mean? >> i laid out this five-year plan to him. i think he understood what we were trying to get at. and there was nobody in my time at nbc who was ever more of a team player than jaylen leno. >> you know, this show is like a dynasty. you hold it and hand it off to the next person. i don't want to see the fighting and the back and forth in the press. so here it is right now. conan, it's yours. see you in five years. >> jay congratulated me and it all felt fri...

Cheerleader. we're going help everyone out there, try to for the next hour take our mind off things. >> here is a strange thing in "the wall street journal" today. toys r us has announced they might sell their toy division. so we was toys, is that their new name? >> we started out by doing jokes that were completely nonpolitical, nonseptember 11th. and then you started to be able the make jokes about the tangential things. there was the taliban. >> things are not looking good for the taliban. today one of their top commanders took a head count. only half of his guys had one. >> and then the id...

>> and we all just looked at each other like, this makes no sense. >> basically what you're doing is offering someone a 2 liter bottle of pepsi just before you offer them a 2 liter bottle of coke. and in this analogy, i'm the coke because that's the better drink. >> when the nbc said to jay, you know what? conan's going to take over your job in five years, that's when you say, okay, fine, no hard feelings. you call abc, you call fox. you try to get my job. you leave. you don't, you don't -- i'll be in the lobby if you need me. don't hang around.

I think it was my way of acknowledging the inherent silliness of the situation. but i also laid out exactly what had happened, how i felt about it. and that's when the shit hit the fan. >> conan o'brien told nbc and the wider world today he no longer wants to host "the tonight show" if the show is to air in any other time slot. >> in the end conan was just too hurt and wouldn't do it. so we decided moving jay back into 11:30 was the right call. >> here's jimmy kimmel! >> you know, i came from a background in radio of fighting with your competition. at that time it seemed ripe to fight with jay...