| It has been famously said by Edmund Burke that "those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Well, I'll be damned, we'd better keep track of our history!!! This very important principle played out in real life in 2010 when Conan O'Brien was bumped off the Tonight Show by Jay Leno. Alas, Conan, you did not copiously study your |
"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeated it." Whoa!!! Let's Study Our History!!!6/27/2014 history and allowed Leno to blindside you!!! Had Conan looked into the past, he would have learned that in 1993, a very similar event happened where Leno schemed behind the scenes to usurp the Tonight Show gig from David Letterman, who was waiting respectfully for Johnny Carson to retire. Letterman then left NBC and went to CBS to start his own show. Ahhh...history really did repeat itself. So, in honor of this valuable life lesson, we shall take a look back at our history, and learn from it...lest we repeat the same mistake. Here is the last show of David Letterman at NBC before he went to CBS....in the summer of 1993.
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