When Their "Greatest Generation" Core Audience Finally Dies Off, Who Will Be Left To Watch NBC Late Night?

Jay Leno's chin must be a horcrux because his middle-of-the-road comic career has more lives than Voldemort.

Fans of late night television probably thought they'd seen the last of Leno when he left the Tonight Show last year to start his stupid new 10pm show.

But brace yourself for this - he might be back soon.

Last year Jay Leno hosted his last-ever Tonight Show then, instead of retiring with grace, bagged his own 10pm gig to kick the wind out of Conan O'Brien's sails. However, since Leno's show turned out to mostly be about him grilling celebrities about how disappointed their dead mothers would be in them, it hasn't done very well, and is reportedly on the verge of cancellation.

And that means that Leno is finally going to retire with grac what? He might be getting the Tonight Show back? The LA Times reports: "Jay Leno, the former king of late-night television who was pushed out as host of NBC's The Tonight Show last year and then struggled in his new prime-time slot, is in talks to return to 11:30 pm."

Leno = 1, talent = 0.

NBC has given O'Brien, who succeeded Leno, two options. The Ginger Giant can get busted down a few time slots to the 12am to 1am slot, aka "Good evening. It's Sunday, 4:53 in the am. And that means this is "Perspectives" with me, Lionel Osborne." Or, he can ransack the office supply closet for all the free copy paper and pens he wants on his way out the door with his belongings in a cardboard box. Say, we hear George Lopez is accepting resumes for a side-kick on his late night show. Chico and the Man Dos, ese!

Of course, those hacks at NBC have overlooked the logical third choice: a Leno vs O'Brien throw down, gladiator style: The Late Shift 2: Chinned and Fabulous. "Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Stringbean O'Brien and The Chin Leno battle it out for late night mediocrity. Emeed by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at 8pm on pay-per-view." It would definitely be more interesting than anything on either show.

Meanwhile, somewhere, someplace, David Letterman is rubbing his hands with glee and laughing manically while forcing all his female staffers to become his sex slaves.

By Paige Muller

Paige Muller, Gossip & Hollywood Hijinx
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