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Henican: For Leno, keeping cool earns him last laugh

Quick ReadAll of a sudden, NBC has nothing to laugh about.

Jay Leno speaks during the panel for quot;The

Photo credit: AP File, 2009 | Jay Leno speaks during the panel for "The Jay Leno Show" at the NBC Universal Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif.

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All of a sudden, NBC has nothing to laugh about.

Leno's a flop at 10. Conan's an "astounding failure" at 11:35. Jimmy Kimmel's the rudest guest in the history of late-night TV.

Is it comedy? Is it drama? It's a whole new form of late-night train wreck where all the engineers are over-coddled and overpaid. And NBC is still in fourth place.

But viewers have a whole new reason to...

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