BNWriter
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Monday Morning Sportswriter said:BNWriter said:old_tony said:Jimmy said during his monologue that it was the first time The Tonight Show was in New York in over 40 years. I thought either Conan or Jay had done a few shows there in the last decade or so. I know Jay did some shows in Chicago, but I also thought there were some in NYC.
I think he was referring to the fact that it has been over 40 years since show originated nightly from NYC. Yes, I think Jay did a week's worth of visits but nightly, not since Johnny Carson.
Pretty sure Bill Carter's book noted that Jay never took the show to New York because he didn't want to be in the shadow of Dave. Conan's new show came to New York, but not the Tonight show.
Thanks for clarifying that. I knew one of them had done a week in NYC. I thought it was Jay.
Also, if I can find it, there was an article in the Chicago Tribune explaining specifically *why* "Tonight" was being re-located to NYC (has more to do with movie studios PR, I thought the article said, than with anything to do with relocating Fallon to L.A.).