Re: Andy Richter Lets 'Er Rip on NBC, Jay Leno (All about celebrities)

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Re: Andy Richter Lets 'Er Rip on NBC, Jay Leno

Posted on: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:11:30 +0000 (UTC)

On Mar 9, 4:03=A0pm, edonline wrote:
> http://www.popeater.com/2010/03/09/andy-richter-jay-leno-nbc/
>
> Andy Richter Lets 'Er Rip on NBC, Jay Leno
> By PopEater / Wire Services =A0Posted Mar 9th 2010 03:39PM
>
> Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien's sidekick at 'The Tonight Show,' is
> acknowledging some ill will toward NBC and Jay Leno in the wake of the
> network's late-night upheaval. "Why wouldn't I?" said Richter, who was
> filling in Tuesday for Regis Philbin on 'Live! with Regis and Kelly.'
>
> Richter told Kelly Ripa he was frustrated that Leno was allowed to
> reclaim 'The Tonight Show' host chair just nine months after O'Brien
> had inherited that plumignment.
>
> "NBC, definitely, everybody said they were going to do something and
> they didn't," said Richter, implying the network broke long-standing
> commitments it made to O'Brien.
>
> O'Brien left NBC and 'Tonight' in January amid complaints by NBC of
> low ratings. NBC had proposed reinstating Leno in the 11:35 p.m. EST
> slot and bumping O'Brien back a half-hour.
>
> O'Brien's future is unclear. So is Richter's, though he said, for now,
> he's still an NBC employee, "so we'll see if those checks keep
> coming."
>
> He called a rumored live concert tour for O'Brien and Co. "a distinct
> possibility."
>
> It all ended much quicker than he could have imagined, said Richter,
> who figured his 'Tonight' job was "as good as it gets in show
> business."
>
> He said he figured "I'm a tenured professor of show business now," but
> quickly learned otherwise. "I guess I'm really good at getting kicked
> off the air, because it's what I've been doing for the last 10 years."

Whiner. Ratings talk, bullshit walks. The man's been well recompensed
for repeated failure.

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