{"id":189844,"date":"2010-01-17T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=89065"},"modified":"2010-01-17T04:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T09:18:00","slug":"%e2%80%9ctonight-show%e2%80%9d-staffers-furious-with-conan-o%e2%80%99brien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/189844","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTonight Show\u201d Staffers Furious With Conan O\u2019Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tonight Show<\/em> staffers are furious that they&#8217;re facing unemployment in a wrecked economy while boss Conan O&#8217;Brien walks away from the fiasco with $30 million, insiders close to NBC tell <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/conan_stiffed_us_staffers_say_09HWtZQc2Jc4BYmw7dg2hK\">The New York Post&#8217;s<\/a><\/em> Page Six Column. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/conan-obrien-injured.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Conan O&#039;Brien Injured\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-72402\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The production team feels betrayed,&#8221;<\/em> a source said. <em>&#8220;They don&#8217;t understand why Conan couldn&#8217;t have just agreed to move the show to 12:05 a.m. and see how things turn out, which would have allowed them all to keep their jobs. But his ego got in the way.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-89065\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 200 members of O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s production team, who uprooted their lives to move from New York to Los Angeles for the show last year, are losing their jobs and livid that they&#8217;re been overlooked as Conan negotiates his way out of the network he&#8217;s called home for 16 years.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;They all uprooted their lives and their families&#8217; lives to move to LA for him, and now they feel like they have simply been forgotten,&#8221;<\/em> the insider said. <em>&#8220;There are 200 people losing their jobs while he walks off with a payoff worth $30 million. The mood on set and backstage is dismal.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZujGajKuK7US_aRf6DC7q6gB0r8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZujGajKuK7US_aRf6DC7q6gB0r8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZujGajKuK7US_aRf6DC7q6gB0r8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZujGajKuK7US_aRf6DC7q6gB0r8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight Show staffers are furious that they&#8217;re facing unemployment in a wrecked economy while boss Conan O&#8217;Brien walks away from the fiasco with $30 million, insiders close to NBC tell The New York Post&#8217;s Page Six Column. &#8220;The production team feels betrayed,&#8221; a source said. &#8220;They don&#8217;t understand why Conan couldn&#8217;t have just agreed to [&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-189844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189844","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=189844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}