Re: Letterman, Leno taped Super Bowl spot last week

David wrote:
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:40:57 -0500, David<dimlan17@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No hard feelings I guess.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ia613cdbc5ebee2c5dea784ba38765ffb

And they wanted Conan to participate.

http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/heres-that-dave-jay-oprah-super-bowl-ad/

Here's That Dave, Jay, Oprah, Super Bowl Ad; UPDATE: Why Conan Wasn't
Included...
By Nikki Finke

UPDATE: I just spoke to Letterman's producer Rob Burnett who says:
"When we were talking about what it should be in very early
conversations, we talked about the notion of Conan being involved in
it in some way. I made an initial call to [Conan's producer] Jeff
Ross, who said they had too much going on to consider it..." Conan and
Leno on the same set? Priceless. But I bet NBC would never have
allowed Jay to participate, especially now that the network is
removing all memory of O'Brien working there.

News reports say the spot was shot upstairs at the Letterman show's Ed
Sullivan Theater where Leno had to sneak in wearing a disguise (hooded
sweatshirt, glasses, fake mustache). It was Dave's idea to do the ad
and he wrote the bit, which echoed a similar spot he did when CBS last
aired the Super Bowl in 2007. That one involved only Dave and Oprah.
Winfrey said OK to this bit immediately. But the NBC suits had to
agree to it before Jay could participate. They wound up flying him in
on the corporate jet:


Why did NBC allow Leno to appear in an add promoting a competitor?

--Robin


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