Jay Leno's ratings slump: Ironic?

Though a panicked NBC put Leno back in the "Tonight Show" hosting chair, so far his numbers are actually worse than Conan O'Brien's

Score one for Team Coco. When NBC execs reinstated Jay Leno as host of "The Tonight Show" this January, they justified the decision to fire Conan O'Brien by citing his "astounding failure" in the ratings. So far, however, Leno's actually faring worse: According to The Nielsen Company, his viewership has fallen 0.1 points below O'Brien's "Tonight Show" ratings average, and more than 0.5 points below Conan's year-to-year numbers. Unsurprisingly, commentators are savoring the irony:

As George W. Bush would say...

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