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Hour. so now all three of these people are just wandering around the networks are having a terrible time. you turned down a late-night show. i turned everybody down. i turned down george lopez. larry: why did you turn them down? oh. george wanted me to take conan s spot. and i said no to george. then conan conan offered me george s slot. and i turned it down. then larry: so somebody else came along. i think it was george burns or was it carlin somebody asked me, i ll have none of it. larry: thank you, bill cosby for setting us straight. and now you know the rest of the story. dr. marilyn irving and bill cosby, thank you so much. half of team loco is standing by ready to launch tbs s new late ....
well, i can probably say right now, unofficially and allegedly, a word that i like to use, that i probably will be picked up for another season. larry: uh-huh. i feel comfortable enough putting tbs on the spot with you. the contract could have been up, you know, in a couple of weeks. so i i believe that i will continue for another year. larry: i would and here s the beautiful part. you always know someone is making more money than you when the terms of their deal aren t disclosed. larry: by the way, do you know where conan will do his show from? where he ll work physically? i believe it would be done at warner brothers. we re trying to keep it close. we want to have something you don t see in late night. we want to have synergy. craig ferguson and letterman, east coast, west coast. conan and i talked about him ....
larry: you know, that crossover idea is interesting. are we going to see him the beginning of yours, you ll come on at the end of his. you ll be like a team. you know, i think that would work. conan, unfortunately, with a significant amount of severance that he was given has been asked to stay off for the until the end of september. it was given by nbc $1 million a day till the end of september to stay off. larry: not bad. we would have taken that. i m trying to get car rrot t to fill his shoes until the end of september. you have to do it from vegas. talk about sarah palin and kate gosselin and other news makers next with jorge. don t go away. ....
funny taking a shot at me. that s hitting below the denim belt. i m the victim here too. i m not the bad guy. you guys car pooled in the rubble seat. did you see, tiger had a tough weekend. did you hear about that. hey, we ve got big guests coming on the show. woup, now he s trying to take over the sketch. larry: funny, george. funny stuff. thank you. larry: by the way, do you have any background with conan? are you friends? do you know him well? you know, i was on conan s show twice in 2004. in 2003, we co-hosted the emmys together. we ve been cordial and honest together. i think it s interesting in hollywood, this deal was brokered the way the deals used to be done. a guy comes in the office, this is my intention, if i have your blessing, this is what i m going to do. i picked up the phone, called conan on wednesday. he started to mull it over. i talked to him on sunday night, man-to-man, i got his number, picked up the phone. ....
No idea what was going on? i don t know if shocked is the word as much as i did not believe i don t remember that you can take the job as a teacher, as a superintendent, as a principal and not recognize when you re being told by parents. for instance, when our daughter erica had a problem, she reported it to us. mrs. cosby then went to the school. the school immediately and eri erica s maybe 7, 8 years old. immediately brought the parents in of the child who was doing the bullying. and it it worked. larry: yeah. we ve got more coming up. was george lopez, by the way, the key to conan s deal with ....