Will Jay Leno Appear as a Guest on 'Conan?' "Only as a Musical Guest," Conan Says

With Monday approaching, which will mark the date of Conan O’Brien’s big premiere of Conan on TBS, the funnyman declares in an interview with Playboy he won’t be having Jay Leno on his show as a guest, Reuters reports.

“He can come as the musical guest, because that I want to see; no one knows he has an operatic range," he jokes, adding, "No, there are certain things I will not do, regardless of the price."

O’Brien continues on to say that he isn’t bitter about his departure from the Tonight show. "I thought it could end up being the most important moment of my television career. It still could be," he said. "I have had too many good things happen in my career to end on any kind of bitter note. ... And as crazy as this sounds, my career with NBC was overwhelmingly positive until this."

"The entertainment business has an amazing way of turning really lucky people into bitter, angry, rage-filled, jealous, resentful wretches who can't believe they got screwed," he said. "Some things have worked out great for me, some things haven't. You keep going."

He adds that he was on “a high” during his last taping of the show before Jay Leno took over. "A lot of people tuned in, and I was really proud of what I was able to make in that situation," he said. "So this was good, this was bad, this was ugly, this was beautiful, this was f---ed-up, this was sublime. It was cherry, it was vanilla, it was frogurt, it was mocha chocolate chip."