Karl Rove found a new venue to promote his book, Courage and Consequence, last night – The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

The lighter venue led to mostly serious discussions, including about yesterday’s “bondage-themed nightclub” story, health care in general, and some very uncomfortable moments of Rove’s early life.

Jay Leno‘s Tonight Show re-premiere last night, as expected, gave NBC a huge victory over CBS.

How big? Here’s a breakdown:

Conan O’Brien isn’t just disappearing from the walls of 30 Rock – he’s disappearing from the web too. NBC.com and Hulu.com have worked to make it look like The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien never existed.

Also, images from the deconstruction of the Tonight Show set sure to depress Team Conan.

If the money is right and Conan O’Brien is game, Rupert Murdoch would have him join the Fox family “in a flash.” This is the latest in the post-late night war odyssey of finding a new home for the displaced Tonight Show host and his unique brand of comedy. While Murdoch, speaking to Reuters, noted that there have not been any “real negotiations” with the O’Brien camp and that there are “different opinions” on the matter, with the right numbers he did admit he is interested in entering the world of late night entertainment.

Mediaite’s Rachel Sklar was a guest on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with Howard Kurtz to discuss NBC’s late night imbroglio, Conan O’Brien‘s last Tonight Show and whether Jay Leno is really the bad guy in all this. With The Wrap’s Ray Richmond and the Baltimore Sun‘s David Zurawik.

Has watching a man crash through a plate of glass, french kiss a bear and tip over a row of Domino’s pizza guys ever made you misty? It will tonight. Conan O’Brien has delivered his final Tonight Show monologue on his final Tonight Show — and it delivered right back.

Sources on Team Conan in L.A. found out two weeks ago that NBC might want to make changes to its late-night schedule — and the flagship program that has anchored the lineup for decades. Yesterday, they officially know that that that flagship program will continue to air at 11:35 p.m. as it always has. They [...]

“This is very hard for me though, you know I’ve been with NBC for a really long time. A really long time.” It doesn’t matter that it’s followed by a punchline, as are all the sentimental moments in tonight’s Tonight Show. By now, we all know that he thinks that it sucks.

I feel like I must begin this post with a disclaimer: I’ve never been a Jay Leno hater, or a Conan O’Brien nut. Always liked and enjoyed Conan, often chuckled at Jay despite the uncompromising edict from the cool kids that he was terrible and lame and hackey. So if it seems from my various [...]

A few days ago, Conan O’Brien listed the Tonight Show on Craig’s List. Now, as he enters the home stretch at the Tonight Show, he’s listed himself on Craig’s List. According to Mashable, O’Brien announced the listing on his show. I admit, it’s a clever post, and really, I feel for Conan. But isn’t this a little overkill? Repeating jokes doth not a comedian make.

While the NBC infighting continues, the jokes are still coming in from around the late night spectrum – and specifically from the most vocal late night host so far, David Letterman.

Letterman previewed a promo of the “new” old Tonight Show, and knocked Jay Leno‘s “State of the Network” speech from Monday.

“Hello there, I’m Conan O’Brien and I need all of you to write me a letter of recommendation.” For those who were worried that erstwhile Tonight Show Conan O’Brien‘s late-night hating on NBC was over, those fears were laid to rest by this reassurance at the top: “A lot of papers are now reporting that [...]

Remember 2004? Could it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time rewritten every line? Yes, yes and yes. Back then, it was very simple — Conan O’Brien was taking over the Tonight Show from Jay Leno in 2009. Changing of the guard. Passing of the torch. Handing down a treasure from generation to generation. Ah yes. It made all sorts of sense — then.

This week has been full of memorable late night TV moments, from Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and more. Here are the highlights — and the backstory.

Check out some of the notable quotes of the week about all the NBC late night troubles, and on the next page, get some context on each of the quotes.

Well, if they’re gonna push you out, you might as well have fun while you’re going. And Conan O’Brien, if nothing else, is having fun. Last night’s fun: Listing the Tonight Show on Craigslist.

Yes, there were barbs — but tonight, the sign that Conan O’Brien is done with NBC and The Tonight Show was less about twisting the knife in his rivals than hilarious and extremely dirty porn puns. Put it this way: If you were trying to recapture Jay Leno‘s demo, would you do it with “”The Fistahood of the Traveling Timeslots?” I don’t think so.

Is NBC ready to take a full mulligan?

TMZ is reporting Jay Leno has struck a deal to host The Tonight Show again at 11:35, for a full hour, as he had before.

But GossipCop is hearing no deal is set.

Maybe this was the point the whole time: NBC manufactures a fake controversy about wanting Jay Leno back at 11:30pm and moving Conan O’Brien and The Tonight Show an hour back, then after a few weeks of NBC-bashing ratings gold (timed perfectly to coincide with the Olympics), they say nevermind and everything goes back as it was. No? No.

Because the overnight ratings from last night’s Tonight Show are in and they are huge.

As we pointed out yesterday, Jay Leno would like you to know that this is not his fault. But judging by the reactions of his fellow comedians, there is no love lost between Leno and his late-night peers. But when innocent bystander Jimmy Kimmel gets in the act, and goes out of his way to crap on Leno? It might signal that, in fact, Leno doesn’t really have many pals in Hollywood.

David Letterman didn’t hold back, again, in bashing NBC and its late night woes on his Late Show tonight.

But in a move that combined new media savvy, playful ribbing and the acknowledgment many viewers would be tuning into the potential impending seminal late night moment when Conan O’Brien post-letter Tonight Show airs, CBS released all portions of Letterman’s NBC jabs early on YouTube.

Here is the full text of the statement released by Tonight Show Conan O’Brien this afternoon, confirming that he would not accept a 12:05 a.m. time slot for his show and would not follow Jay Leno at 11:35 p.m.

Conan O’Brien‘s announcement that he would not host The Tonight Show any later than its established 11:35 pm slot has been praised for its jokes, burns and most of all, emotion. The show, he wrote, was still “in its infancy” after only seven months. But what of that time? We’ve collected seven of the best Tonight Show clips of the last seven months, featuring Sarah Palin, William Shatner, Bruno, the great state of New Jersey and more!

Conan O’Brien’s kiss-off letter to NBC is going to make him a hero, not only to people who started off loving him, but because he’s been cast as the underdog here, unfairly subject to the failings of Jay Leno and fickleness of NBC. But Leno wants a bit of that victim spotlight, too.

Well this is huge. Conan O’Brien has announced he will not host The Tonight Show as NBC had wished – at 12:05amET.

But O’Brien is not going quietly, or, notably, through the NBC public relations chain. Here’s some of the very revealing letter.

Whatever the configuration, we all know, practically speaking, when the Tonight Show starts: At 11:35 p.m., up against David Letterman. Conan at 12:05 a.m. may only be a half-hour later but it’s a damn crucial half-hour — which is the reason they’re calling in Jay. Whatever they’re calling it, make no mistake: This is about who gets the Tonight Show.