i've known conan for a while. i know jimmy kimmel, craig ferguson. to a man, i think one thing we agree on is we're all not crazy about jay leno. >> why is that? >> i don't know. i think in our own personal dealings, some people get along and some people don't. >> is he much more competitive than people realized, do you think? >> i don't -- you know, i don't know if competition is the right word. i think he's a little bit more interested in everybody else than he should be. >> do you think he sees you as threats? >> no, no. listen, i'm struggling to maintain my audience. >> doesn't everybody in the end in this game, don't you all aspire to the "tonight" show? isn't that the holy grail still? >> if you ask me personally, you didn't ask me, who i thought should have been the host of "the tonight show" when johnny carson left, i did that show with him in 1991, i think the heir apparent would have been david letterman. >> you still believe that? >> i do. david letterman is the best late night talk show host hands down and has been since he first took the

urn very gracious in welcoming conan. you describe jay leno as the biggest two-faced dude and a back stabber. >> was that me? >> i'm afraid so. >> you know, i will say this. i do not have a personal relationship with jay leno. we are not friends. nor have we ever been friendly. i've heard some things said about me by him that i took exception to. >> like what? >> you know, there were things that he said that i was not appropriate to people of my own color. which i found disingenuous from somebody else. that's a pretty big chip to pull out. and i disagreed with that. >> what did he mean by that, do you think? >> i think when you understand the material, you understand it. when you don't get it, you might think i'm negative toward my own people. >> it struck me as strange. he's always been unbelievably core just. he has a chat, a cup of coffee. yet he seems to attract from all his competitors extraordinary amount of anti-pathy. >> there is not a union of super heroes among late night talk shows. i just met david letterman f

>> jimmy: conan. [ laughter ] >> conan who? >> jimmy: no, it's jimmy kimmel. >> jimmy!mmy: doing well, thanks. i'm coming up to jackson. >> ah -- i'm sorry, who are you calling? >> jimmy: that's kind of what i figured without happen, yeah. so i'm glad i didn't. >> i go there to get a ay -- >> jimmy: from me. >> from hollywood. >> jimmy: i got you. >> don't take it personally. >> jimmy: while i was there, i kept very busy. i don't feel bad about showing this. i was fly fishing and i caught a beautiful fish. that's right. >> wow. >> jimmy: what do you think of that? >> i don't believe it. [ laughter ] that's what i think. another one where it tried to escape me while i was taking the picture. >> really? so you -- you must -- the river's still muddy. you were lucky. >> jimmy: very good. very talented. gifted. oh, yeah. [ laughter ] >> great. >> jimmy: i'm now imagining you and how bothersome everyone must be to you all the time because you've been in so many great movies -- >> no. >> jimmy: yes. i know you can't say it. people must drive you insane and that's why i can't i

they've been given the truth and the truth is on the pair of conan who reluctantly admits being cheeky response for the plane crash big killed the nation's president last year but still tries to shift some blame so wrong so. we should have amputated grease from the your resume long ago the green can drain away space the country's credit rating prepares for the way it's because of the euro zone stablemates instigator see many refusals to sideline checks on the news john ball also. deadline choose day but still no sign of a decision in the u.s. debt steinmeyer is rival paul seems wrestle. america's biggest lead to something that loses its patience. on the square roots of civil unrest thousands camp hours in israel's public plazas demanding at best and i think came to sions with concerns that mirrors the tiniest self-rising that's a lead tips need to outstrips. a very warm welcome this is all sea life from potence investigation into the presidential plane crash near smolensk last year says the tragedy was caused by its crew but it. has one thing partly for the catastrophe which killed. an

tweeting with conan can't hurt. conan tweeting this.ict that pawlenty won't be a common halloween costume? pawlenty said wait until i unveil my team coco wig. it might even deliver iowa for me. back in conan. if it hem heps you win iowa it's probably because iowans think it's corn silk. so there you go. he does have a sense of humor, but for the record, he's actually said he doesn't care people call him dull. he's been quoted as saying, if people want an entertainer in chief, they should vote for someone else. >> let's talk about peas. i want to hear the sound. >> if you haven't heard it, let's listen. >> it's not going to get easier, it's going to get harder. so we might as well do it now. pull off the band-aid. eat our peas. >> okay now, you get the meaning. but that statement prompted all kinds of political reactions including from the "l.a. times" which called on the president to give peas a chance. and then we got this comment from the

conan's admission responsibility for the plane crash that killed president kaczynski jan but the published report still tries to shift some. one hundred fifty animals into anti-government protesters have flooded the streets and squares of his way to cities. of the arab spring in the chants calling on prime minister netanyahu to step down. but isn't the phone in just around fifteen minutes time but before that let's cross over to the sports desk with kate is going to lay this particular hungering grand prix and it was a very memorable day for one. of the. hello welcome to the sports update this sunday and these other top stories. in the armies in the narrow the gap two leaders trace down to four points off the beaten struggling spot technology one mill on the. wall no problem but my challenge jenson button claims his second victory of the season in his two hundred meter race after scintillating contest at the bearing a grand prix. and dancing back story to williams reaches her first on an overnight turning from a life threatening injury. with what will first and champions a need to bridge t

conan's admission responsibility for the plane crash that killed president kaczynski last jan but the published report still tries to shift songs off the bench for. another one hundred fifty channels and antigovernment protests as the flood of the streets and squares of his waiting still seems some here in echo of the arab spring in the chants calling on prime minister netanyahu to step down. from power newsperson a phone in just around fifteen minutes time but before those calls over the sports task of katie's got all the latest particularly on the gary and grand prix and it was a very memorable day for one. of the. hello welcome to the sports update this sunday and these other top stories. today on isn't it narrowed the gap to leaders discounts of who are going to be struggling start acknowledging the mail on time. no problem but the challenge jenson button claims his second victory of the season in his two hundred. percent raising contest in the gary graham great. dancing backstreet of williams which is how it goes on in a very exciting time a new life threatening injury. with what

and the corrupt government officials in europe out cold looted together obviously to impose to our conan measures as a result of a racketeering charge a racketeering campaign to destabilize and confiscate this is you know terrorism but you know as a percent of the people along the fact that they don't rise up revolt the joke's on you but this is the thing that we're seeing across europe people are giving up these nations are giving out income producing assets they're basically they're tollbooths right these are told to say give income to the government. first of all by giving that was over they reduced their revenue further destabilizing their own economies but it's neo feudalism some outsiders some lord somewhere else is basically collecting that revenue and it's going outside of the country so in the case of greece they're going to sell the state lottery for something like four hundred fifty million and it generates i believe nine hundred million income now think of it in these terms if greece estate laundry were to simply list themselves on that as deck that amount of income one hundr

organizations and most recently to participating in sex parties with underage prostitutes there was conan is still in power as prime minister he's one of the most corrupt politicians in the world and he has overseen italy's freedom of the press downgraded from free like the rest of europe in the developed world to only partly free italy is one of only two nations in the western world that doesn't have a free press but berlusconi is still in power why because he owns the media and the main difference between silvio berlusconi and rupert murdoch is that murdoch isn't interested in being a politician but the u.s. . is interested in political power and when murdoch came to the u.k. in the one nine hundred sixty s. and bought the news of the world newspaper in sixty eight and then bought another newspaper the sun a year later in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine and then bought the times. and the sunday times in one thousand nine hundred one and then bought a share of the highly profitable satellite t.v. network b. sky b. in one thousand nine hundred murdoch finally had enough media holdin

assassinates more high ranking officials in afghanistan as nato begins down david control of the country's conan says so local forces facing huge question mark save their ability to cope. and russian security forces pull a major terror plot near moscow which it's believed could have caused huge loss of life. the looming debt crisis in the u.s. and in europe and the fall in world prices of all cause the russian markets a little more than one percent on monday join me in twenty minutes for. a very warm welcome to you this is the line from moscow now another day another scowl because the news of the world scandal continues to unravel britain's second most senior police officer has quit following the example of his boss he resigned on sunday if only his revelations they hired a former news of the world executives a media advisor at the same time as they were resisting pressure to reopen the probe into claims that it was hacking into phones let's get more now from aussies or emmett's she's live in london last hour laurie it's been two days of rapid developments with the rest of resignations all we're

when he did that thing standing up and screaming henry hyde, how he should be stoned -- it was on conan o'brian and a set piece. and then they came in with an oxygen tank. that was a joke. i wouldn't say he is an actor. he can't get away that. i don't care if you are an actor, greg gutfeld, bill shultz, whoopi goldberg or bill marr. if it is meant as a joke as opposed to saying the f-word, c-word or s-word to get attention, you can't get away with it by saying blanket, i am a comedian. >> luis ck, one of the best comics ever does a six-minute joke about the "n"-word. and it is not just the n word, but actually saying it, and nobody has had a problem with it. michael richards who is a stupid actor who tries to be funny and he said it once and it ruined his career. he is not skilled enough to do that. political activists will get themselves into trouble because it is not funny enough. that's what john mare blew up either. he was trying to be funny, but he is not good as being funny. he is not professionally funny enough to say that in an interview and it doesn't come off as racist. >> you

this is what conan o'brien has to say about it.to cancel his own 50th birthday party. he says the republicans won't even let him raise his age limit. there you have it. >> who ever wants to raise, that right? >> yeah. i mean -- >> there are disastrous consequences for the market, at least he doesn't get to get old sneer everybody deserves a birthday celebration, especially a 506789 maybe a smaller more economically friendly one. >> jennifer delgado, many thanks for that. >>> let's take a last look at the markets and see how they're being affected by this ongoing debacle surrounding the debt in the united states. we're two hours into the trading session or almost. and as you can see, another day of red right across the board. really heavy losses across the cac 40. also the dax. one thing i should point out is people are becoming increasingly curbed about euro debt zone once again after one of the ratings agencies placed the spanish ratings on review for a possible downgrade. >>> well, in asia the u.s. debt debacle did manage to weig

she still has to do "conan" this week. >> jimmy: i'll keep that in mind. >> stick to the snappy political'm glad you brought that up, because the president and congress are still fighting over whether or not to raise the debt ceiling. things got heated today. speaker of the house john boehner called fellow republicans in and toll them to quote, get their ass in line. he was very angry. he face turned from orange to mandarin orange. they're saying that if congress doesn't figure this thing out, the united states might default on its loans and then china will, i guess, foreclose and we'll have to move out into a cheap rental country or something. right now they're very far apart, the two sides. the democrats want to cut $2.7 trillion and raise the debt limit through the end of 2012. republicans want to deport all mexicans and replace social security with scratchoff lot to cards. sarah palin had some thoughts, surprisingly, on the subject last night on f f news. she said that if a deal isn't reached by august 2nd, it won't matter. nothing will happen. so, you hear that nobel prize-winning ec

. >> rick: i can't help but think of the insult dog on conan o'brien.ay event is a sell-out as usual. >> arthel: who would you dress as? >> please don't start. >> arthel: which would be cat woman. >> l.a. police announcing the arrest of two men in a beating that nearly kill the giant's fan outside 's stadium in march. amid -- the original suspect had nothing to do with the attack. that left that father of two brian stow in a comma for weeks. casey stegall is live in los angeles. this is quite an embarrassment. i remember when this was first reported the initial arrest. the police chief was confident they had the right guy. >> reporter: yeah, exactly. now the l.a. police chief backing off of those claims quite a bit. first, let's walk you through the timeline. at happened in march. then you remember, we were live that entire saturday back in may, when the lapd police chief came out and said that his department had arrested the primary suspect in this case. they held a news conference. we carried it live right here on fox news when they released the mugsh

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a tweet sent out late night by comedian conan o'brien, poking fun at republican presidential candidate pawlenty about being unexciting on the campaign trail saying, is it too early to predict that tim pawlenty will not be a popular halloween costume? a couple hours pawlenty wait until i unveil my team coco wig, then everyone will want a wig of me. >>> a narrow alaskan mountain pass and they both land safely, no one was hurt. the pilots didn't see each other until the very last second on sunday, one skimmed the top of the other, then they both landed with little damage. wow. hear that? that's a sigh of relief from all 13 people on board the two planes. >>> there are certain things you expect to find in the seat back pocket of a plane, the emergency manual, leftover magazines, but a stun gun isn't one of them, exactly what a jetblue crew found friday in new work, looked something like this. the fbi is joining the investigation into how it happened. the flight originated in boston, made several stops throughout the day. >>> tom stuker first person to hit the 10 million mile mark in united

let's take a look at what conan said about your interview with paris hilton. >> here's a clip of herour voice drops and you're much more serious? [ in a deeper voice ] >> definitely, i think. i do that -- >> that was fantastic. >> all right. all right. changing the subject, it's my turn now. this is a piece of video that really shows resiliency, which is something that some people i've met recently could learn from. this is australian rider chad reed. he is a motocross championship rider. check this out. wow! look at that. unbelievable, unbelievable fall. this happened at the ama pro motocross championship in spring creek, in millvale, minnesota. but -- but -- check this next clip out. look what hahaens. he gets back on the bike. >> he's fine? >> he's fine. >> he must be numb. >> he comes in number 14. >> whoa. >> wow. >> i am impressed. amber, could you top that? >> no, he must be built like gumby. fantastic. i have this, a website actually. a blogger got his website shut down, nicky from brooklyn, he has a website, ridiculous photos of celine dion. now, celine's lawyers found out a

conan finally goes back on this. there's a lot of reasons why they think this way.a lot of people, a lot of bad people behaved well. and a lot of good people behaved bad, or something. it's hard to process if you are a maxist, a neocon. if you come into this thing with a thesis, then it falls apart. because you know -- and i think the other thing, we had a very early on we found a thesis from a young woman from reed college, who probably wrote the best thesis of any, she was an undergraduate. she addressed this. she said, who out there is the one who decides what's an epic and what is an episode? what do we marginalize and what do we look at? if you look at this story as a bat bele for veteran's rights, then it becomes an epic. >> and then also in your comments, the fascinating thing was the roy wilkins story. that's a beauty. >> well one of the -- >> how this could possibly have affected true believers in the civil rights movement. >> well if you look at the "washington post" or "the new york times" during the coverage, the sbegdwration is never mentioned -- integr

>> it is to conan. >> it is to conan. >> -- draconian . >> be mean they would have lied to both sides fear in >> is not a step backward. >> i cannot be more proud. this is the right way to do it. i hope we do it this way again and again. >> of 3 free to pay its 39 m were the members of of this committee was going to make these recommendations. it was laid out. it lays it out of members of the joint committee. joint committee. negotiations to place in the white house. they may not have ever materialize anything written down. they did have discussions. this will enable the proper designation of representatives of both bodies to empower them. of both bodies to empower them. >> be have to come up with a number. he has said you have to let someone figure of the cuts. if the city's programs methodically. maybe we need a bigger cut .aren i think it would have been better if the chairman had been here. i think if the gentlemen were here, and he would have to say that he is not appoint a member. there is no way to understand who would be appointed. there are a process driven. this institution

. >> that was conan o'brien who, by the way, is still on. >> another channel. >> he's dropped out of the radar, hasn't he? >> we still play him. >> he's talking about -- conan is talking about what happened in phoenix, arizona. here's a question for you. you should both know the number since you studied extensively, how many miles of territory between arizona and -- ok -- they know it's 82 miles of unprotected border. how far is that in kilometers? >> that is a bad question. >> either way, it's -- >> we can't do math at this hour. here's the question we need to tell you about. arizona, as you know, has had this ongoing battle with how to protect its border from illegal immigration. so a state senator, steve smith has proposed a $50 million border fence with money raised from private funds. obviously, all the states are any abudget crunch and can't rely on funds from the government or state government so he's collecting private donations towards the $50 million goal. >> also going to be used in social media to do it and governor brewer is leading the charge. they're going to be using

." >> the nominees for variety music or comedy series are -- "the colbert report," "conan," "the dailyplause ] >> okay. keep it together. the nominees for lead actor in a comedy series are, alec baldwin, "30 rock," louis c.k., "louie," steve carell, "the office," " johnny galecki, "the big bang therapy," matt leblanc "episodes," and jim parsons, "the big bang theory." >> let's complete the announcements by bringing back john schaffner to announce the final category. >> hello again. the nominations in the comedy series category are -- "the big bang theory," "glee," "modern family," "the office," "parks and recreation," and "30 rock." melissa, the academy congratulates you on your nomination. and, joshua, thank you so much again for helping us with this. >> my pleasure. >> there is a complete list of all the emmy nominees on our website at emmys.com. please tune in to the fox network on sunday, september 18th, for the live telecast of the 63rd primetime emmys, finding out who is going to take home the emmy. have a great day, everybody. [ applause ] >> wow, very exciting. and the emmys, o

that's where conan o'brien has fallen in the late night cable ratings.helsea handler's show on e. his ratings are down almost 20% last month. and finally, the five, that's the name of the new fox newschannel program that will air at 5:00 p.m. beginning monday, july 11th, it will be a roundtable of five fox news personalities drawn from some of your favorites here on the channel. tune in for that. "the five". >> thank you, clayton. michelle bachmann may be dealing with the wrath of the mainstream media but where are they when it comes to covering liberal bias? over the past week, the far left web site media matters and their founder david brock has been exposed with their tax exempt status. with taxpayers essentially subsidizing their attacks, doesn't this deserve more coverage? we're back with our panel now. and we start with you, christopher hahn, i'm perusing "the new york times", arguably the biggest and most successful paper in this country. i don't see a whole lot of coverage. in fact, there has been zero. there are some inmates wearing theater make

. >> the nomnys for variety music or comedy series are the company bert report, conan, "the daily showte night with jimmy fallon, real time with bill maher, and saturday night live. >> the nomnys for lead actress in a comedy series are edie falco, nurse jackie. tina fey, 30 rock, laura linney, melissa mccarthy, mike and molly. >> oh, my gosh. >> martha plimpton, raising hope. and amy poehler, parks and recreation. >> okay. keep it together. the nomnys for lead actor in a comedy series are alec baldwin, 30 rock. lieu advice c.k., steve carell, johnny good laekky, the big bang theory, matt la blanc, and jim parsonss. >> in melissa, let's complete the announcements by bringing back john to announce the final category. >> hello again. the nominations in the comedy series category are the big bang theory, glee, modern family, the office, parks and recreation, and 30 rock. melissa, the academy con grat lates you on your nomination and josh washing thank you so much again for helping us with this. >> my pleasure. >> there's a complete list of all the emmy nominees 00 our website at emmys.com.