pretty scary for those of us who had kids and families and houses. i am glad you are here and i am glad i am here. yes! it was a story every day in the trades, will nbc dump leno, where will dave go? don t mind me. i am just a temp. when johnny carson retired, after being on the tonight show for 30 years, it was an old field. hence the intense competition between jay leno and david letterman. suddenly it became about, who got the show. letterman got it and leno was like, maybe i don t have a place in show business. he made it very clear up front that his dream was to someday host the tonight show. it just didn t seem to make any sense of having jay leno doing an hour of a talk show, then i would come on afterwards doing an hour of a talk show. i felt maybe my time had come to step out of network television i said to dave, if nbc wants to put you on at 12:30 after jay
big night tonight, huh? oh, yeah. lot of pressure. so they say. my suggestion was to have everybody that you say hi to say hey, you better be as good as letterman! i ll give it a shot. do do! happy music. then i go in my dressing room. you re on, mr. o brien. now, or do i have a minute? right now. ouch. the first night, we were walking on air the entire show. we re on tv! calm yourself, you re a professional now, we can t act like guys that are too young to be on tv. letterman was iron and i can detached. that was the answer to carson. this show needs to be sillier. we did this bit where i played bill clinton. maybe my favorite moment in my whole career. what you got there in that mug? uh you wouldn t be interested, mr. president, it s
you better be as good as letterman. i ll give it a shot. happy music, and then i go in my dressing room. you re on, mr. o brien. now or do i have a minute? right now. the first night we were walking on air the entire show. we re on tv. calm yourselves. we have to act like professionals now. you can t act like guys that are too young on tv. letterman was ironic. that was the answer to carson. this show needs to be sillier. we did this bit where i played bill clinton. maybe my favorite moment in my whole career. what you got there in that mug? you wouldn t be interested, mr. president. just some hot, creamy cocoa. cream and cocoa, i love it. let s have some. just the kind of idiocy we could have never done on saturday night live. all right. here you go, mr. president. all right.
am glad i am here. yes! it was a story everyday, will nbc dump leno and where will dave go? don t mind me. i am just a temp. when johnny carson retired, after being the tonight show for 30 years, it was an open field. hence the intense competition between jay leno and david letterman. and then leno got it and david goes maybe i don t have a place in show business. he made it very clear up-front his dream was to one day host the tonight show. it does not make any sense for jay leno to do an hour of the talk show and i felt that my time has come out of network station. i really felt like maybe my time was to step out of television. if i said if nbc wants to put you on at 12:30 after jay leno, you would kill yourself. i said i have to get you an