Artie Lange, the Howard Stern sidekick who recently tried to commit suicide by stabbing himself multiple times, offered an eerie prediction to departing Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien more than a year before his move to the famous show 7 months ago.
“I think it’s a bad move,” Lange said during an appearance on Late Night With Conan O’Brien in 2008. “I would have rooted for that bobblehead Leno to stay longer.”
O’Brien is embroiled in a bitter dispute with NBC, which decided to move Jay Leno back to the 11:35 p.m. timeslot after pulling the plug on his primetime variety show. O’Brien — a former television writer who has been in business with the network for 16 years, decided to leave The Peacock rather than push his show back a half hour.