Conan Crushed Competition on Final Night and Perez Hilton wrong about O’Brien

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5:29 pm, January 24th, 2010

 

The early numbers are in, and all signs point to Conan O’Brien handily beating both David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel. 

Preliminary Nielsen ratings indicate that O’Brien crushed the competition in his final hour hosting “The Tonight Show,” having nabbed a 7.0 rating compared to a 2.5 rating for “Late Show with David Letterman” and a (2.8 for “Nightline” and) 1.3 for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Granted, this is all TV mumbo jumbo and the final numbers won’t be in until later this week, but trust Gossip Cop, O’Brien went out BIG.

In other O’Brien news, Perez Hilton recently reported, “sources reveal exclusively to us that O’Brien has hired a crisis management company in Los Angeles,” an agency named Sitrick and Company, to thwart “the bad publicity affecting his career.” Perez snarkily added, “Good luck with that.”

You are NEVER going to believe this: Perez is wrong.

O’Brien never hired a crisis management team. The carrot-topped comedian still has one PR agency handling ALL of his publicity.

To sum up this post: O’Brien — big winner, Perez  – loser.

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