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spot. in an effort to stop the tonight show viewer dropoff, nbc asked leno if he d be willing to do a half hour show at 11:30, pushing conan s tonight show to midnight. jay agrees. conan declines. then it became these camps. the jay camp, the conan camp. the backseat, the front seat. it just was a disaster. when that curtain between reality and perception is torn, everybody feels uncomfortable. that s a real problem for a host. the uncomfortable situation resolves when nbc pays conan and his staff $45 million to step aside. jay resumes his role as host of the tonight show in march of 2010. when we came back, was he number one almost automatically? no, there was a hangover. and it damaged jay. what had happened ran