After a glorious seven-month run, Friday night is Conan O’Brien’s last Tonight Show on NBC.
Conan will be missed, not only because he is way funnier and fresher than super-stale, passive-aggressive Jay, but also because he has great taste in music. Since his Late Night debut in 1993, Conan has been the most musically forward-thinking of the late night hosts. He ended his Late Show last year with the White Stripes doing a Dylanesque update of their twee classic “We’re Going to Be Friends”
This time around, our hero Neil Young will be closing up shop on Friday's show. As Conan has gotten more daring in the past couple of weeks, it's fitting to have a true iconoclast wrap things up.
Neil being Neil, it's impossible to guess what song he will play. But several of his classic songs perfectly sum up the late-night imbroglio with only minor lyrical adjustments.
From Carson to Letterman
From Carson to Letterman
I watched TV with you
Here I am with Leno’s show
Doin’ what I do
I always expected
NBC would see me through
I never believed that in seven months
Jay would say “You’re through”
Can we get it together
Can we still host side by side
Can we make it last
Just not at 12:05?
Campaigner
I am a lonely visitor
I came too late to cause a stir
Though I campaigned all my life
towards that goal
I hardly slept I should have wept
Your show is safe and still well kept
Where even Jay Leno has got soul
Even Jeff Zucker has got soul.
Tonight's the Night
Tonight’s the night
Tonight's the ni-hi-hi-hi-hight
Jay Leno was a working man
He used to tinker that Econoline van
A lantern was in his jaw
But his fate was in his hands
Cause people let me tell you
It sent a chill up and down my spine
When I picked up the telephone
And heard that he died
Out there in Prime Time
Tonight’s the Night
Tonight's the ni-hi-hi-hi-hight
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