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Conan O’Brien has been known around the world as an American talk show host notably known for hostingThe Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.Being a comedian, O’Brien’s journey wasn’t easy at all to reach where he is at the moment.
Talking about the struggles in cable networks and rejecting a $28 million deal from Fox Network to stick with NBC, Conan O’Brien talked about how he was fixated onThe Tonight Showwhich he gradually overtook and became its host!
Conan O’Brien Rejected Fox’s $28 Million Deal!
With decades of experience in hosting shows and comedy,Conan O’Brienfound the golden opportunity to hostThe Tonight Showin 2009. Replacing Jay Leno as the host, O’Brien couldn’t have been happier.
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In an interview with Howard Stern onThe Howard Stern Show,O’Brien revealed that he had been offered $28 million by Fox Network to join them as a host but he did not want to leave the NBC network and refused the money to stay loyal and true to his work!
“I was on your TV show in 2006 and they had just announced that you were going to be The Tonight Show replacement for Jay [Leno] when Jay retired and was many years off. And I turned to you on your show and I was half being funny but also I said ‘It’s going to go horribly wrong'”,said Howard Stern.
He further continued,
“When your time comes, Jay will fcking not let you have that show and the audience was going wild and they were laughing. Fox TV came to you and said ‘We’re going to give you $20 something crazy…$28 million to jump over to Fox’. You had such a fixation for The Tonight Show you said ‘I’ll fck the $28 million, f*ck you Fox, I’ll stay with NBC'”
Conan O’Brien went on to explain that he had already been attached to NBC for the past 16 years before he hostedThe Tonight Show.Talking about how he worships his work alongside his family, O’Brien revealed that he did not want to lose that attachment and not leave NBC on any bad terms.
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Well, O’Brien did say not to talk about show business to people since it feels like whining. After his takeover as the talk show host ofThe Tonight Show,there were some conflicts between Jay Leno’s prime time slot and O’Brien’s show.
Being disappointed with NBC’s poor planning strategy, O’Brien issued a public statement taking digs at NBC and Jay Leno. With dropping viewership and the conflicts rising, NBC finally kicked out Conan O’Brien fromThe Tonight Showand he was forced to make his own way.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
