Life Lessons from Coco

If you're a big fan of late night television you are probably well aware of "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" controversy that began in late 2009 and ended in January 2010 (has it really been that long?). If you aren't familiar with the story basically Conan O'Brien took over the "Tonight Show" when Jay Leno decided to move to a 10PM time slot but Leno failed to achieve high ratings with his new show. Since the ratings were so low NBC executives cancelled Jay Leno's new 10PM show and decided to give him his old job back hosting "The Tonight Show" resulting in Conan losing his hosting gig.

Fans of O'Brien quickly mobilized and started the "I'm with Coco" campaign to try and convince NBC executives to let O'Brien keep the hosting chair. In the end it didn't work. Conan had to give up his job as host after about 7 months.

O'Brien gave a speech at the end of his final show actually thanking NBC for giving him a job for so long and fulfilling his dream of hosting "The Tonight Show" even though it was for only a short period of time. I, like most other O'Brien fans, bashed NBC for their decision and believed that the choice to replace O'Brien was merely based on greed. At the end of his speech O'Brien had a message for those fans in particular. Watch the entire speech and you'll see why I wanted to post this blog entry.

Jacob Gilbreath set Conan's speech to Kinetic Typography. Hope you enjoy!

Conan O'Brien Kinetic Typography from Jacob Gilbreath on Vimeo.

"If you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen"

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