Conan O’Brien to Host The Tonight Show

NBC has made a big statement regarding “The Tonight Show” and it involves Conan O’Brien. It looks like Jay Leno is getting the boot and funny-man Conan O’ Brien is moving up and over to fill the void.

“Conan O’Brien will take over `The Tonight Show’ in 2009,” NBC Universal President and CEO Jeff Zucker said Monday in New York at an event arranged by Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Zucker said he’d like Leno to remain with the company and that “we are in those conversations now. I’m hopeful that Jay will be with us.”

The change won’t bother me, I’ve always been a fan of “The Late Show with David Letterman.” Well, now I might actually watch “The Tonight Show” once in a while. There’s a concept.

Rebecca Romijn Photos from The Late Show