Thursday, January 14, 2010

Conan Moved To LA-I Lost $80,000 In My Retirement Plan

That is exactly correct,. I retired subsequent to working in many unrelated fields beginning with my job delivering laundry bundles for 25cents each on New York's Upper Manhattan in 1963. I was able to save a substantial amount of money by investing in stock mutual funds until I lost most of it since the bailout meltdown and the tanking economy. Since I have a house replete with two mortgages and a big family, I went back to work. Today I read that list of celebrities who support Conan O'Brien. I found their arguments to be hiliarious and somewhat delusional. Many argued that they moved Conan from his New York digs and out to LA. So What? Conan may have to shell out 20 grand to the 7 Santini Brothers when he goes back to New York for cable. The other prevalent argument is that Conan should not be moved because this would impinge on the historical meaningfulness of the Tonight Show. Working on any television show, just as when I worked as a door to door salesman for Smith Corona in 1973 mostly means you have to make your quota. I had to sell two machines per week and Conan had to make his nut or bogie whatever that is. War stories and historical meandering logic does not pay the bills.
Also, I have worked in radio and television and now the Internet and you know it is dog eat dog. A celebrity is the most competive and self serving individual when it comes to championing the careers of other performers. I will bet that all these celebrities are bringing off their arguments based on being politically correct
or infighting involving the entire convoluted sitiuation. Jay Leno himself has a long road to hoe even back at 11:30PM. When you get to our age often times people who are your junior do not inherently think that you can be successful. As I have said before, if Jay continues interviewing vapid young starlets and comedians who are not funny, he is done because he has to compensate for his own shortcomings. NBC should supply him with the fascinating guests that stimulate the audience.

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