{"id":182977,"date":"2010-01-15T06:51:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T11:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=88829"},"modified":"2010-01-15T06:51:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T11:51:46","slug":"harrison-ford-rosie-o%e2%80%99donnell-weigh-in-on-jayconan-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/182977","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Ford, Rosie O\u2019Donnell Weigh In On Jay\/Conan Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jay_leno_released_from_hospital.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13157\" title=\"jay_leno_released_from_hospital\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jay_leno_released_from_hospital.jpg\" alt=\"jay_leno_released_from_hospital\" width=\"220\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/rosie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11817\" title=\"rosie\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/rosie.jpg\" alt=\"rosie\" width=\"225\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Add comedienne Rosie O\u2019Donnell and veteran Harrison Ford to the growing list of celebrities joining Team Conan; both believe Jay Leno should hit the bricks and let his <em>Tonight Show<\/em> successor, Conan O&#8217;Brien, continue hosting the show.<\/p>\n<p>(I still like Letterman&#8217;s idea of letting the guys share co-hosting duties&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>The former <em>View<\/em> moderator shared her view after being asked at HBO\u2019s Television Critics Association panel on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-88829\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI have been a big fan of Conan O\u2019Brien\u2026 and [\u2018The Tonight Show\u2019 is] a franchise that has been 60 years with NBC, and if you\u2019re privileged enough to be asked to drive the bus, you should say thank you and drive it to the best of your ability and when it\u2019s time for them to hire a new driver, you should say, \u2018Thank you for allowing me to drive this for as long as I did,\u2019 and pass the keys to the new guy with red hair, and not try to flatten his tires, before he even gets going.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Harrison Ford was in town for the red-carpet premiere of his new movie <em>Extraordinary Measures<\/em>. He also sympathizes with Conan. The pair have met a couple of times because their children attend the same California school.  <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I mean, poor guy moved out to Los Angeles to do this show and moved his whole family out there. Put his kids in a new school,&#8221;<\/em> the 67-year-old actor told reporters. <em>&#8220;He&#8217;s getting the shaft in a way.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add comedienne Rosie O\u2019Donnell and veteran Harrison Ford to the growing list of celebrities joining Team Conan; both believe Jay Leno should hit the bricks and let his Tonight Show successor, Conan O&#8217;Brien, continue hosting the show. (I still like Letterman&#8217;s idea of letting the guys share co-hosting duties&#8230;.) The former View moderator shared her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}