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Inconsistent opening

Sometimes, the glass of water in the opening sequence will "magically" turn into a glass of milk, and on the other side of the glass, there will be two cookies, other times, it will remain as a glass of water, and no cookies will appear. Is there any significance in these changes? Also, should we include this in the article? -Xparasite9 19:26, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Recurring segments: Iron Jay?

I didn't see the "Iron Jay" segments listed in the recurring segments, though he hasn't done it in a while, he did do it quite often towards the beginning of his Tonight Show tenure. There was also another one similar to the Iron Jay segments, but I don't remember what it was called. I don't know if these should be listed. I thought they were pretty funny though back when he did that. —Zachary ^talk 03:49, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I found out what the other one was: "Mr. Brain", the smartest man in the universe. There was another one too, "Beyondo". —Zachary ^talk 03:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Jaytitle.jpg

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Writer's Guild Strike

I hear that the Tonight Show will be airing reruns until the end of the WGA strike. Shouldn't we mention this? 216.166.78.9 16:06, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Edd Hall?

Is there any story to Edd Hall leaving? Did he quit? was he let go? Either way, why? TheHYPO (talk) 06:16, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jay decided to replace a pro announcer with a stutterer from Howard Stern. From all reports John makes far more then Ed did and more then most pro announcers.68.32.232.224 (talk) 16:34, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conan O'Brien as guest host

I have removed the following from the introduction: " The first time was when Conan O'Brien guest-hosted as an audition for Late Night. " This is clearly wrong as O'Brien's tenure as host of Late Night coincided with Leno taking over the Tonight Show so there's no way O'Brien could have guest-hosted under Leno. It's possible he might have guest-hosted at some point under Carson, in which case this information belongs under the Carson version of the show, not here. 23skidoo (talk) 15:30, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I believe someone saw Conan's audition tape on the Tonight Show set and made an assumption; Conan's audition tape was NOT (as far as I know) broadcast as an episode of the tonight show. TheHYPO (talk) 15:56, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"New" Tonight Show

Shouldn't we describe HOW this and other talk shows are functioning without writers?--66.32.216.227 (talk) 20:05, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a source for it, you can cite and mention it, but I haven't seen any significant change in the content. TheHYPO (talk) 00:31, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aspect ratio

The article says "The show is shot in 16:9 aspect ratio with a 4:3 center-cut for standard definition television sets." This was put in the article back on September 4, 2006 and I'm not sure what it means or if it's accurate now. I supposed that it was meant to say that SDTV broadcasts use a 4:3 center-cut, but at least where I live that's not the case. Here, the show is broadcast in SDTV (4:3) as a letterbox of the original 16:9 format, while in HDTV it is broadcast in original 16:9. I guess this might be different depending on the technical status of each local station. In any case, the article should refer to HDTV and SDTV broadcasts, not television sets. Also, this text has spilled over to the new article about the Conan Tonight Show. Bigmouth strikes (talk) 14:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]