After banging his head during a taping of The Tonight Show, host Conan O’Brien was taken by ambulance to the hospital, reports TMZ. He was reportedly in good spirits, cracking jokes the entire way to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles.
O’Brien was unable to finish taping the show, leaving NBC to air a repeat Friday night.
The first guest on Jay Leno’s new primetime show will be Jerry Seinfeld, reports Perez Hilton. Seinfeld will likely be promoting his new NBC reality series The Marriage Ref.
The Jay Leno Showwill debut September 14 on NBC. It has previously been reported that Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West will be the musical guests for that first episode.
Leno makes the switch to primetime after Conan O’Brien took over for him in June as host of The Tonight Show.
Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West are all scheduled to perform on the first episode of Jay Leno’s primetime talk show, reports Perez Hilton. The show will premiere on NBC September 14.
Leno, who hosted The Tonight Show for 17 years, was replaced in June by Conan O’Brien.
Perez Hilton reports The Late Show with David Letterman has beaten The Tonight Show in ratings for four consecutive weeks. This is the first time in a decade that Letterman has stayed above the competition for so long.
Letterman has been hosting the show since 1993, while Conan O’Brien, the new host of The Tonight Show, only just took over for Jay Leno in June.
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, which follows Letterman on CBS, has scored higher ratings than NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for three weeks running.
It’s official: Jimmy Fallon has a steady job again.
The 33-year-old SNL alum has finalized talks to take over as host of “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” O’Brien will be moving into Jay Leno’s old digs when he retires next year.
At a news conference in New York on Monday, Fallon claimed that “It’s a comedian’s dream to get this job.” He also said that he had missed performing for a live audience.
Fallon will be right at home at the NBC talk show, with SNL creator Lorne Michaels as his boss again.
It’s been a good year for Fallon. He recently married Nancy Juvonen, Drew Barrymore’s producing partner.
As the never-ending writer’s strike surges on, the kings of late-night, Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien, will be back on the small screen come January.
NBC announced Monday that both shows will be back on the air with new episodes in the New Year without their striking writers.
Leno and O’Brien are following in the footsteps of former late night legend Johnny Carson, who returned to work two months into the 1988 writers’ strike, CBC News reports.
“Both Jay and Conan have supported their writers during the first two months of this WGA strike and will continue to support them,” Rick Ludwin, NBC?s executive vice-president said in a statement according to CBC.
“However, there are hundreds of people who will be able to return to work as a result of Jay’s and Conan’s decision.”
Both hosts were previously paying out-of-work crew members out of their own pockets during the drawn out strike.
This decision comes after recent talks between the Writers Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers broke down on Dec. 8.
Comedic writers would be having a field day with the latest news surrounding late-night funnyman Conan O’Brien. That is, if they weren’t all on strike.
A priest accused of stalking O’Brien was found fit to stand trial Friday, despite acknowledgement by his lawyer that the man had been treated for psychological problems over the last year.
Reverend David Ajemian, a priest in the Archdiocese of Boston, was examined by a court-appointed psychologist before the ruling was issued.
The priest’s lawyer agreed that his client was fit to stand trial but pointed out the he has been taking medication and has been in treatment for mental-health issues.
For over a year now, Ajemian, 46, has allegedly been writing O’Brien notes on parish letterhead, showing up at the talk-show host’s Rockefeller Center studio and contacting O’Brien’s parents.
The troubled man was spotted by NBC security and arrested last week as he tried to enter a Late Night taping.
If convicted of aggravated harassment and stalking, Ajemian could face up to a year in jail.
