Barry Hand

I’ve been fol­low­ing The Tonight Show fiasco over the US where Conan O’Brien has got bumped from the host slot after only 7 months, with Jay Leno likely to return.

From all accounts Conan was get­ting a rough deal from the net­work NBC and he’s received mas­sive sup­port online.

I really like Conan, not just because of his Irish roots, or his razor sharp wit, or that he wrote some of the best Simp­sons episodes ever — he’s just an all round funny guy.

His last show pre­sent­ing The Tonight Show aired last night and he gave a great rel­fec­tion on his own per­sonal state of mind, end­ing with the fol­low­ing…
http://​www​.vimeo​.com/​8​9​3​9​365
“Please do not be cyn­i­cal, I hate cyn­i­cism, it doesn’t lead any­where, no one in life gets exactly what they thought they were gonna get. If you work really hard and are kind, I’m telling you amaz­ing things will hap­pen, amaz­ing things will hap­pen…“

Typ­i­cal of Conan to fin­ish on a high, you can watch the best bits of the show here, the final play­out song was with Will Ferrell.

Conan can’t host a show for 7 months, but I’m sure he will be back big­ger, bet­ter, faster, strong in 2011.