He did say he would still do the show even if it was in a parking lot.

With an ongoing war, high unemployment rate, rising costs of living, foreclosures and bankruptcy Americans have a lot on their plate. However a couple of months ago America was trying to get it's mind off these things by looking towards late night.

It was a swell time. Conan was christened the new host of The Tonight Show, and the Letterman scandal broke out boosting his ratings back to number 1. Jay himself was finally hitting rock bottom ratings wise with a rather terrible prime time talk show.There was no way Howard Stern's prediction of NBC giving Conan the shaft and giving back Jay the Tonight show would ever come true.Well there is a reason he is called the King of all media.

Conan's ratings weren't doing so great, and Jay's refusal to retire had placed the network and its affiliates to ratings so low that a NBC affiliate in New York ranked 4th behind a Spanish station that ranked 3rd. Yes Mexican programing had beaten a major Network affiliate for the first time ever. Man 2009 was a crazy year.

After the whole mess was settled and NBC was greatly embarrassed, Conan embarked on his last week of The Tonight Show.Giving his all Conan was at his best. Fans stood outside to show their support for their COCO in the drenching rain. Conan cheerfully greeted the crowed as if he were the President waving towards them as he ran with utmost joy. In his final episode Conan gave a tearful goodbye. Being the showmen he was he thanked NBC despite his differences with them and gave a big nod to his staff vowing that he would do everything possible to continue the show even if it meant making it in a parking lot.

Which brings me to now. Many speculated that when Conan went off the air Fox would sign him to be their late night host. It made a lot of sense really considering that Fox had been trying for years to have a late night show to call their own only for each attempt to end in disaster. Execs at Fox would probably tell you Chevy Chase's or Joan Rivers late night shows never existed. Howard Stern even filmed a couple of pilot shows for his own talk show on Fox. However those pilots never aired and probably for good reason(check out the leaked pilots on youtube if you want see what I am talking about).

Yet Fox did not end up picking him up. Instead he got picked up by......................TBS?????? The network that gave us....................shows that every other cable channel show? Well they did give George Lopez his own late show, well now late, late show(though it was him who convinced Conan to do it despite the situation). It seemed Conan was again getting a terrible deal.

I know he said he would do the show even if it was in a parking lot but I didn't think he meant almost literally. But then I thought about it a second time. What if Conan actually gave TBS a name. It sounds crazy considering it is a network known mostly for syndication. But the funny thing cable has shown us is that it can give shows that have failed on network tv a new life.

I mean look at Family Guy and Futurama. Two shows that were canceled by Fox and brought back to life thanks to dvd sales and strong ratings on Comedy Central and Adult Swim. Hell King of the Hill even gets it's own hour on Adult Swim which never happened on Fox. I have even seen local affiliates start to show similar programing around the same hour as well.

With his tour and support he has gotten when he was let go at NBC, Conan can possibly do for TBS what Howard Stern did for Sirius Satellite Radio. Imagine if David Letterman is a surprise guest on his first show with both of them socking it to NBC and Jay Leno. The possibilities are endless.

Maybe just maybe the master bating bear will stroke again in the year 3000.