re: I'm watching Seinfeld for the first time...

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In fairness, The Tonight Show was already a hot commodity. I love Conan, but I think that audience needs a more conventional, safe host. Again, I love Conan, but I don't think Jerry was wrong.

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That may or may not be true, but it's really a moot point because Conan wasn't given a reasonable opportunity to prove himself. If he had been given a year and the decent lead-ins that Leno and Fallon were consistently given, I think more meaningful conclusions could have been drawn based on whatever performance he might have garnered under those circumstances. True, Fallon is tearing it up and his "safeness" is no doubt a reason, but it doesn't feel right to judge Conan as a failure considering his unique, bizarre, and very short-lived situation. I mean, there's a reason they wrote a book about it.

Either way, Seinfeld was full of shite because he was applying a double standard, and it was nakedly because of his relationship with Leno.