The Wreck of the Conan O'Brien- a song parody

With the departure of the wildly overrated late night comedian Conan O'Brien from NBC, I thought the time was ripe for another song parody. I make no apologies- I am and always have been a big Jay Leno fan. I always felt his forced relinquishment of the Tonight Show at the hands of the Ginger Gumby and idiot NBC executives would come back to bite NBC in the rear. Sure enough, it did.

With apologies to Gordon Lightfoot and his hit The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I present

The Wreck of the Conan O’Brien

The legend lives on from the country on down

of the network they called "N.B.C."

The network it is said gives up her dead

when the Neilsens turn gloomy.

With a load of sophomoric jokes and lame sketches galore

the Conan O’Brien weighed empty,

the Tonight Show then was a ship with poor ratings

when the audience went to bed early.

The ship was once the pride of American late night

coming back from a studio on Alameda Avenue.

As the big franchises go, it was bigger than most

with a crew and Jay Leno well seasoned,

concluding 12 years with a #1 rating

when no end in sight for Jay and Kevin and the gang.

And later that night when the gossip rags rang,

could it be the bad vibe they'd been feelin'?

The buzz in the news made a tattle-tale sound

Change in late night may be a comin’

little did Jay know in 2004

That Coco a comin’ a stealin'.

“Tonight Show or else, I don’t want to wait

For whenever Leno’s retirement will be'”.

When afternoon comes he’d sign with another network

Unless he was given the show by 2009.

When June of 09 came the president came around sayin'.

"Here’s some suggestions to adjust to."

At seven P.M. Coco came in; he said,

"Fellas, it's been good t'know ya!"

The president wired in, ratings were falling

and the good franchise and crew was in peril.

And later that month, unavoidably so

came the wreck of the Conan O’Brien.

Does any one know of the headaches endured

when the comedy is low rent frat boy crap?

Triumph and Andy and Masturbating Bear

Couldn’t replace Headlines, jokes and Jaywalking.

They might have split up or they might have capsized;

Most people turned off the TV in disgust.

And all that remains is the faces and the names

of Coconuts, a few loyal fans and the comatose.

In a boring old building in Burbank they prayed,

in the "Programming Room Cathedral."

The church bell chimed 'til it rang two-hundred times

for each man on the Conan O’Brien.

The legend lives on from the country on down

of the big network they call "N.B.C.."

"Well," they said, "we will no longer be dead

when Jay Leno’s 11:35 comeback comes early!"