He added, about the debacle, “"I wasn't the reason. The reason was ratings."
Conan O’Brien left The Tonight Show with $32.5 million after just seven months of hosting the historic program. Many people voiced outrage at his treatment by the network, one Wall Street Journal writer comparing Leno to Adolph Hitler and calling Conan “the Czechoslovakia of late-night TV”.
O’Brien’s final show attracted more than 7 million viewers, according to preliminary numbers released by Nielsen, clobbering David Letterman's 2.8 million viewers and Jimmy Kimmel's 1.4 million.
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