Have you seen Oprah's interview with Jay Leno? If not, you're missing some amazing acting by the Once and Future Chin of late night.

I haven't always been the biggest fan of Oprah. But, boy can she interview. She asked Leno the hard questions about NBC's late night disaster, and she never let up.

To hear Leno tell it, he is just an innocent bystander. A victim of poor NBC decision-making. Just like Conan.

He says the reason Conan is out is because he wasn't getting "the numbers." Correct me if I'm wrong. But, I thought Leno's show was the one that was actually canceled.

The thing that really got me was when Oprah asked Leno if it was his ego that didn't let him walk away.

WINFREY: Lots of people say you could have walked away.
Mr. LENO: Again, by walking away, that is an ego decision. That is me going, "No, goodbye, everybody, you know something? I'm fed up with this. You-all fend for yourselves. Good luck finding jobs, I'm out of here. To me, that's the ego decision, not the other one.
WINFREY: Is it, really?
Mr. LENO: Oh, yeah, I think so, I think so. Like ...
WINFREY: How is it an ego decision for you to say I've done it, I've done "The Tonight Show," I've tried it prime time, that didn't work. Thank you, NBC. I'll take my paycheck and go."
Mr. LENO: If I was going to do it that way I would say maybe after these two years of being on the air, I would tell my staff, "One year from today, it's over, guys."
WINFREY: But you could have done what--do you think now you could have done what Conan did? When they came in and said your prime time show's canceled, you say okay, you owe me two years, because that's what you said at the beginning.
Mr. LENO: Right, right.
WINFREY: You were guaranteed at least a year.
Mr. LENO: Right.
WINFREY: Two years if you were successful.
Mr. LENO: Right.
WINFREY: Pay me out, pay out my staff. You could have done that.
Mr. LENO: I could have done that, but I didn't. They offered me my old job back.
WINFREY: Right, I get that.
Mr. LENO: Which is the dream job. I said okay.

The full transcript is up on Deadline Hollywood. What a jerk.