Conan skewers NBC...in 2006, and more commentary from Letterman and Carson.

Looks like people foresaw the Conan-Leno debacle back in the day. In 2006, Howard Stern appeared on Conan's show and warned the host that Leno would never leave. Also that year, Conan hosted the 58th Emmy Awards, broadcast on NBC, and took the chance to bludgeon his network's miserable fortunes in a song and dance number. But even before that, signs of NBC's gross ineptitude were on full display during the last great late night war. In one of his last appearances on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, Letterman plays diplomat and assures Carson that he bears no malice towards anyone for losing out on hosting duties. After all, he adds (~4.10), it wasn't as if the network gave Letterman the show and then took it back a week later. So the moral is...unless you're Leno, NBC will screw you.