Site Claims Jerry Seinfeld May Be Conan O’Brien Replacement

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2:15 pm, December 17th, 2009

The only thing that makes us laugh harder than Conan O’Brien is the latest crazy rumor about his show.

In a piece about O’Brien’s lagging “Tonight Show” ratings, PopEater.com reaches deep into its bag of “WHAT??” and pulls out this gem: ”NBC has their eyes on replacing him with none other than their golden boy, Jerry Seinfeld.”

Come again?

According to the PopEater rumor, “informal discussions have started” within NBC headquarters as to who would be “the home-run replacement” for O’Brien. And Seinfeld is “the name on everyone’s wish list.”

Um, yeah… Gossip Cop finds it just a little hard to believe that months into O’Brien’s tenure, NBC would be in talk show “replacement” conversations with sitcom icon Seinfeld, whose show left the network eleven years ago.

Seinfeld’s rep told Gossip Cop any “Tonight Show” talk is “very far fetched.” At the moment, he’s focused on his own new show, “The Marriage Ref,” which he’s executive producing.

And a source at the “Tonight Show” called the report “ridiculous” and “completely untrue.”

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