Conan O'brien

Dear Conan,

First of all, I'm sorry that I said in my irate letter to NBC that you shouldn't have been put in that time slot to begin with. It's not that I don't think you deserve the Tonight Show. You totally do. I mean, I rarely watched the Tonight Show with Leno despite DRV capacity, but I watch it every night since you took over. I only meant that you and Letterman have more similar styles and therefore you split the audience with him. Leno and Letterman are less direct competition for each other. I think you are great, and I think Jimmy Fallon is great and the line up is perfect the way it is. I know I said most of this before, but it bears repeating.

I think you were absolutely right about the Tonight Show being a franchise that shouldn't be moved to a different time slot. I, mean, if they were willing to do that they could have just re-named your previous show and re-named Leno's show and left them in their original time slots, but the shows retained their names and time slots during the last late night shake up. That seems to imply that NBC has (or at least did have) some respect for both the Tonight Show franchise and the Late Night franchise. If they had enough respect then to keep each show in its original time slot then they ought to have that same respect now.

Love,
The Fan

p.s. Letterman should retire. I made the mistake of watching an episode of Letterman the other night (when you were in re-runs). He had Zachary Levi and Amy Adams on and to say the interviews you did recently with those same guests were better would be a massive understatement. He just sits there and puts all the responsibility on the guests to make the show entertaining.