Was firing Conan the death of Late Night TV in general?

I mean, it's definitely dead right now. Just nothing but a graveyard of hacks and it's more resembles church congregations and commercials (to be fair deep down that's what it always was), but man, was Conan's final two weeks just epic for late night in general. Conan's departure was the biggest frick you in television history at the time.

To start it off, there had been very bad blood between Conan and Jeff Zucker (then the head of NBC) for years since college. Conan was the editor of the Harvard Lampoon and Zucker was the editor of the Harvard Crimson, and it was war between the two non-stop to the point where Zucker got Conan arrested in college being the narc weasel he is. Here are some things Conan (all fricking hilarious) did to Zucker and his paper in college:

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The arrest was something of the last straw after O’Brien and The National Lampoon pulled a series of pranks on Zucker, including a fake phone-sex ad with Zucker’s dorm-room phone number; stealing the Crimson’s “prized collection of caricatures of its past presidents” and mailing them to Duluth, Minnesota; and stealing the newspaper’s presidential throne.

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And then Zucker did this:

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“O’Brien cut his teeth in comedy as president of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. In fact, O’Brien first met Zucker, his current boss, one day when O’Brien and the Lampoon editors stole all the copies of that morning’s Crimson. Zucker, then Crimson President, called the police and met O’Brien face to face while he was being arrested.”

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What a fricking weasel not only calling the cops but also being there with the fricking police over his arrest. Well years later in 2004 Conan was announced to be Leno's (himself a chief weasel in his own right conning the Tonight Show for himself TWO TIMES) successor, and Jeff Zucker was just in charge of primetime then, but within the year was promoted to the head of NBC. Well Conan had a problem with his archenemy becoming his boss, so during the next Emmys in 2006, Conan did an entire musical number dedicated to how much Jeff Zucker sucks and has ruined NBC. He doesn't mention Zucker by name, but the song is clearly about him and taunts him during the song that he can't sue him for carefully worded lyrics. From YouTube, but here's where he references Zucker pretty much directly:

And the guy who passed on LOST
Was promoted instead of tossed
And now the peacock is getting it from both ends

And even without this Zucker was looking to fire Conan as soon as humanly possible, so they not only gave him 6 months, but he fricked up the primetime having Leno on at fricking 10:00, and then when he couldn't gain the audience that Leno had (which btw NBC local news' ratings tanked as well), then they decided to cancel basically him.

And pretty much those last two weeks were the last hurrah for late night television, and it was pretty glorious. Remember when Kimmel used to be fat and funny? Here is gloriously shitting on Leno on Leno's show: LINK

Dave shitting on Leno for saying "Don't blame Conan"
And then of course The Bugatti Veyron Mouse

Probably another dozen or so moments from that week from all of them (save for Leno or Fallon). But after this, save for Craig Ferguson and Jon Stewart, all of late night pretty much died that week and those two were gone by 2015. It never recovered from those two glorious weeks. I used to feel bad that Norm didn't get the Late Show or the Late Late Show, but he's better than the dumpster fires they are today, nor should he be a shill selling shitty movies, tv shows, and products his bosses tell him to.

Now late night is either woke bullshite or retarded shite like Jimmy Fallon playing drinking games or taking Post Malone to the Olive Garden (this is what these retard commoners like right?) Late Night is done and it's time to move onto podcasts that are actually funny. The good news is they no longer have anything to "joke about" since they've killed the golden goose, and now half of them are going to go under.